MUSICAL WORKS

FUKUDA Takuto / 福田拓人

2010

Satellite

Birth Y: 1984 Birth C: JAPAN Gender: Male

Dest: Concert

Media Specification: octaphonic fixed medium

First perf.: Royal Conservatoire in The Hague

Duration: 05:55

Perf. Country: NETHERLANDS

Setup: Sonology Department, The Royal Conservatory in The Hague

Prog. notes: This piece was originally composed as an octaphonic fixed medium piece at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague in The Netherlands in 2010.
This piece can be interpreted as a representation of the trajectory of a falling satellite. The narrative is that the orbital satellite gradually goes out of orbit and falls to earth by gravitation. So, the time structure consists of intervals between sound events, which have attacks and movements of crescendo - decrescendo and accelerando - ritardando combined, becoming shorter and shorter towards the crash point.
All sound events and the time structure were realized by a single bell sound and an object-oriented controller which consists of a main sequencer, sub- sequencers and sound generators. The main sequencer decides where a sound object is put in the time dimension and it also decides the property of sound objects such as occurring intervals, scene numbers for behavior etc... The sub-sequencers, which are present in each sound object, were manipulated by the main sequencer. The sub- sequencer functions to parameterize several behaviors of a sound object such as the above-mentioned movements as well as fundamental notes, pitch register, degree of randomization, envelope etc. For the sound generation, all sound objects have a few granular synthesizers connected to the main- and sub-controllers.
This version is a stereo reduction by binaural spatial simulation.
This piece has been awarded the FUTURA prize at "Contemporary Computer Music Concert 2011", and selected for performance on "Seoul International Computer Music Festival 2011".

Reception: FUTURA prize at "Contemporary Computer Music Concert 2011", and selected for performance on "Seoul International Computer Music Festival 2011"

Editor: M.B.