MUSICAL WORKS

WAKI Haruna

Xanadu

Birth Y: 1992 Birth C: JAPAN Gender: Female

Dest: Concert

Media Specification: Mixed music

Instruments: for Solo Clarinet and Live Computer Electronics

Prog. notes: ‘Xanadu’ is an interactive computer music written for solo clarinet and a live computer electronics system. The clarinet part of the piece is composed with 12 tone system, and the computer part is programmed in Max. Various real-time signal processing techniques such as pitch shift, frequency shift and granular sampling, are employed, in order to expand the timbre of clarinet extensively. The piece itself is divided into five sections. The first and second sections are modified and repeated at the last two sections in the reverse order.

Editor: MB

Comment: Performed at the 2015 5th Shanghai Conservatory of Music’s International Electronic Music Week