simon hutchinson

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Browsing Posts published in September, 2007

[ 11 August 2007; 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ] Onikembai (American World), Kitakami, Iwate, Japan
Admission: Free

I’ll join Sato Choei and the Choei-Kai shamisen group for an evening of folk-songs from Tsugaru, the Nortern Penninsula of Honshu.

Chris Hoover has been working very hard doing some advanced copywork for my piece “interaction in the subatomic world” (mp3 of an open rehearsal of a previous version here), and the results have been absolutely brilliant.
Of course now I just need a performance.
download score from mediafire

I feel consistently torn between saying that all the music I write is “my music” and dividing things into my “‘my serious music” and “my not-so-serious music.”
The problem might be that there’s a very large gray area.
I think about my album of electronic music from a little over two years ago called “den gen.” Whether [...]

It’s already been more than a month since I arrived in Japan. Sometime time moves quite quickly.
Over the past month I’ve been revising a few pieces I wrote during my time at UCSC, and I’ve been working on a new piece for Gayageum (Kayagum) and Shamisen, hopefully to be performed in Korea and Japan this [...]