simon hutchinson

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 serious or not, it’s poppy, but experimental. I haven’t been writing a lot of music like that lately, but I came across one of the music videos that Mark Annotto made for the CD release party and put it up on YouTube.

Whether or not it’s a serious piece of music, the visual content is not so serious.

A downloadable version is on the music page.

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 winter.

Unfortunately for my visitors, revising music does not immediately lead to concerts or mp3s that I can share with you. So in the meantime here is one more piece from our project of 5th-grader music written by Joel Ford, rumor has it that a music-video is also in the works. More on that when it appears…

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