Recently, I’ve been playing around with some sound design using recorded shamisen sounds, and I found that filmusik, a group up in Portland, OR, that re-scores public domain films for live performance, was asking for submissions to score a couple of short clips of one of my favorite movies of all time….
They’ve posted the submissions and you can check them out via the link below. Mine are a little more abstract than the others (which are also amazing!), maybe I’m not quite cut out for this film-scoring thing.
Olin Arts Center Concert Hall
Bates College
Lewiston, ME
Please join me for an evening of my works presented at my alma mater, Bates College in Lewiston, ME. This show will consist of a number of my recent pieces, including the premieres of “Requiem” for shamisen and live-electronics, and “Umagata” for flute and guitar. There will also be the premiere of two video pieces by Chris Hoover, created for simultaneous performance with my pieces “hatsuyuki” and “Ewha, Nabi.”
Apologies again for the delay. As I was working on polishing the audio for these pieces, my friend and fellow composer/organizer for these concerts, Young-Shin Choi, sent me the versions that he made, and they sound great! Thanks Young-shin!
These concerts were a wonderful experience, and the hard work of all the participants (and many secret supporters on the sidelines) made them a great success. It’s truly a joy to be able to work together with performers and professionals of this caliber in producing our art. I look forward to doing it again soon!
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Gwangpunge deollin ewha omyeo gamyeo nali daga
Gajie motoreugo geomijule geolligeoda
Jeo geomi nakhwain jul moreugo nabi jabdeut hareonda.
Falling pear-blossoms whirl madly about in the wind,
Unable to return to the tree; they are caught in spiders webs
And those spiders pounce on them, thinking they are butterflies
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You-Jin Chung, piri;
Yu-Sun Kim, gayageum;
Noah Meites, flugelhorn;
Daniel Brown, cello;
Emma Heffernan, violin.
Things in sets of five:
toes,
flower petals,
quintuplets
diamond rings,
quintets.
This piece was written for the 2009 concert series, “consonance,” with performances in Japan in Korea. For some time now I have been fascinated by the potential for international interchange through music, and, with the help of my wonderful friends and colleagues, I have been fortunate enough to have opportunities to try to enact this dialog.
And, finally, as a bonus, here’s the fixed-media version of “Ewha, Nabi.”
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