MUSICAL WORKS

FUKUDA Takuto / 福田拓人

2013

Still-life of cb

Birth Y: 1984 Birth C: JAPAN Gender: Male

Dest: Concert

Media Specification: fixed media played on an 8 channel speaker system

First perf.: Royal Conservatoire in The Hague

Duration: 11:44

Perf. Country: NETHERLANDS

Setup: Sonology Department, The Royal Conservatory in The Hague

Prog. notes: This piece was composed for fixed media played on an 8 channel speaker system at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague in The Netherlands in 2010.
The main concept of this piece is the replacement of an abstract still-life drawing by Pablo Picasso, into music through fragmentizing and then reconstructing the object starting with a multiperspective view. The compositional principle to construct a piece only from recorded samples of sounds played on musical instruments, was derived from the drawing process; a fragmentization and a reconstruction. Concretely, several double bass effects such as Collegno, Bartok pizzicato, Harmonics and Sulponticello, were utilized to synthesize characteristic material such as deep resonance,diverse timbres and gesture of sounds. Then, all this material was categorized according to the degree of concreteness vs. abstraction by applying several generative means. They were then classified functionally as either foreground, for which the materials were defined as ?main?, or background. Material with either function was sometimes transfigured into other material through the application of interpolation techniques.
This piece received an honorary mention from "the International Electroacoustic Music Composition Competition Musica Nova 2010" and has been selected for performance on "the Sonic Rain Concert Series".

Reception: Honorary mention from "the International Electroacoustic Music Composition Competition Musica Nova 2010" and has been selected for performance on "the Sonic Rain Concert Series".

Editor: M.B.