MUSICAL WORKS
YUASA Jōji / 湯浅譲二
1961
Aoi no ue / 葵の上 / Aoi no ue
Birth Y: 1929 Birth C: JAPAN Gender: Male
Dest: Concert
Media Specification: Tape
Performer(s): Toshio Kanze, Hideo Kanze, Shizuo Kanze (uta)
First perf.: Asia House, New York, USA. December, 1968
Duration: 29:59
Perf. Country: UNITED STATES
Instruments: tape (3 ch, musique concrète)
Setup: Sogetsu Art Center; October 1961
Media: CD
Prog. notes: Ref: No play by Ze-Ami. 'The text is recomposed by me keeping the original words. And it was sung in the style of Noh-chant by three brothers ... This work is composed mainly based on the metamorphosed sound of Noh-chant. The other sound is concrete sound such as bird songs, water drops, glasses, the warped sound of a vibraphone, some generated electronic sound and others. These sound sources are diversely changed, metamorphosed through all the possible electronic techniques at that time, and finally mixed and reconstructed on stereophonic tape. This piece had taken almost half a year to complete, working with the excellent sound engineer Zyunosuke Okuyama at the Sogetsu Art Center.' [Joji Yuasa]
Editor: M.B., Koji Kawasaki, Tamamo Nagai
Phono: CD: Obscure Tape Music of Japan vol.1, Edition Omega-Point, Archive Series OPA-001, 2004
Comment: See: Yasuo Kohno, Hyakuten Museum and Geijutsu Gendai sha ed. 湯浅譲二の世界 (The World of Joji Yuasa), Geijutsu Gendai sha, 2004 Studio set up by Sogetsu Art Center engineer Okuyama Junosuke. See LIEBERMAN Fredric (ed.), 'Contemporary Japanese Music. A Lecture by John Cage'.