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Artist:
FUJIEDA, MAMORU
Title:
Obscure Tape Music of Japan Vol. 11: Radiated Falling
Label:
EDITION OMEGA POINT (JAPAN)
Format:
CD
Price:
$25.50
Catalog #:
OPA 011CD
Mamoru Fujieda
is a Japanese post-minimalist composer, and Edition Omega Point releases some of his work from the early '80s. Both "Radiated Falling" (1980) and "The Art Of Fugue" (1981) are tape compositions in which sound materials of a prepared piano are electronically-processed and modulated in various ways. "Radiated Falling" is based on "Falling Scale No. 2" for piano (1975). The series of works entitled "Falling Scale" are composed almost entirely of descending scales as their structural elements. In these works, patterns are automatically produced by the difference in the number of scale tones or through the temporal discrepancy made when the tones descend. In "Falling Scale No. 2," a spiral line is successively transformed. The artist piled up the spiral line in several layers with the uneven timbres of the prepared piano producing sound materials for "Radiated Falling." The sound materials were then transformed to layered sonic textures through the ring modulator, the phase shifter, the harmonizer, and various delay processes. "The Art of Fugue" is based on a simple fugue in four voices from the first piece in
The Art Of Fugue
by
J. S. Bach
. The four voices were randomly cut into fragments, which were then reassembled to form four new voices. Each of the voices played by a differently prepared-piano was recorded on a multi-track recorder to produce sound materials for the piece. The sound materials for the prepared piano were then electronically-modulated and spatially processed. The randomly cut fragments of the fugue are interwoven at different tempos to make it "The Art Of Fugue" on the brink of collapse.
Artist:
FUJIEDA, MAMORU
Title:
The Night Chant
Label:
TZADIK
Format:
CD
Price:
$14.50
Catalog #:
TZ 7003
Fujieda is a Japanese composer who has studied with Morton Feldman and performed with Yuji Takahashi, Zorn, Malcolm Goldstein, Deep Listening Band, etc.
The Night Chant
combines computer controlled synthesizer tuned in just intonation (a la Harry Partch) with shomyo/Buddhist chant, Japanese traditional instruments, Indonesian gamelan modes and Navaho text. Huge, overtone-rich patterns of alien drone.
Artist:
FUJIEDA, MAMORU
Title:
Patterns of Plants
Label:
TZADIK
Format:
CD
Price:
$14.50
Catalog #:
TZ 7025
"Generating melodic material through the micro-changes of surface-electric potential on leaves, Mamoru Fujieda's 2nd Tzadik release was composed completely based on data taken from plants. Combining alternate tuning systems (just intonation, Pythagorean) with traditional instruments of China and Japan (sho, koto and the ancient 25-stringed zither, the hitsu), Fujieda has again created a world of sound never before imagined possible. Delicate and subtle variations of tone and timbre give a whole new life to classical musical forms such as the passacagalia and strophic variations in this bizarre and fascinating mixture of European Medieval music, the traditions of Asia and modern science."
Artist:
FUJIEDA, MAMORU
Title:
Patterns of Plants II
Label:
TZADIK
Format:
CD
Price:
$14.50
Catalog #:
TZ 8061
"In his third CD for Tzadik, Mamoru Fujieda continues his fascinating exploration of the creativity of, by and about plant life with five more pieces from his continuing series
Patterns of Plants
. Utilizing the violin in combination with two Japanese traditional instruments, the koto and the
sho
(mouth organ), Fujieda has again created a sensuous and evocative musical universe, unique in sound and conception that both challenges the idea of composer and composition in the 21st century. Modest in approach but orchestral in design, this is another masterful CD from one of the most original and radical composers in Japan today."
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