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Release Date: 2011/10/05
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Although the 35-year age difference between japanese composers yuji takahashi and keiichiro shibuya might remind one of a father and son, their album is not an affectionate collaboration at all.
for about 10 years, yuji takahashi worked at the leading edge of computer music but later, in 1993, for ethical reasons, forbade himself to combine sound and digital arithmetic calculations. suddenly in 2002 he began using laptop computers again.
of course, no doubt that this time, he resumed their use for the same ideological reasons that initially compelled him to seal his computer.
This "inversion: cycle" is the "event" on music history.
although young keiichiro shibuya started his career with formal and academic music- and was probably the most sensitive and honest person in his generation- he drifted from the traditional system and began to question the meaning of "composer" in this post-technological era.
considering this problem led him to establish his own label, ATAK, and to form the laptop duo slipped disk.
attempting to free himself from a closed and stiffing academic environment, while still in school shibuya sought takahashi's mentorship for an alternative approach to music.
despite this relationship, in this collaborative album, shibuya is never overawed by takahashi, but instead challenges takahashi with intense questions about the creating electronic music.
takahashi's response to shibuya's radical provocations, confronting it with his violent fangs, reveals him as more like a hard-core system-destroyer than a generous old expert.
This exchange is extremely thrilling, yet it eventually becomes obvious that they don't actually oppose each other. the object of their united protest, however, is for the listener to discover.
Atsushi Sasaki (headz/fader)
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Keiichiro Shibuya
Keiichiro Shibuya (b. 1973) is a Japanese composer, musician, and artist. His work encompasses cutting-edge electronic music, piano solos, operas, film scores, and sound installations. Through his music compositions and collaboration with artists and scientists, he challenges the boundaries between humans, technology, and life and death. In 2002, he founded the music label ATAK, working across live performance and recorded music. In 2021, he composed the opera Super Angels, commissioned by the New National Theatre Tokyo, which brought together an android, opera singers, chorus, ballet dancers, and the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. In March 2022, he presented MIRROR, a new Android Opera in collaboration with Buddhist chanting and a local UAE orchestra, at the Dubai Expo. In June 2023, a 70-minute full version premiered at Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, with a Tokyo performance scheduled for June 2024. In April 2024, he presented his sound installation Abstract Music at the Lexus exhibition for Milan Design Week. He has also composed numerous film scores, including the music for the film Midnight Swan (2020), directed by Eiji Uchida and starring Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, for which he won the 75th Mainichi Film Concours Music Award and the 30th Japan Film Critics Award for Best Film Score. In 2022, he composed the score for xxxHOLiC (directed by Mika Ninagawa) and provided the music for the short film KAGUYA BY GUCCI. Through his works, he continues to explore the boundaries of technology, life, and death.
Keiichiro Shibuyaの他のリリース
yuji takahashi
Composer and pianist, born in 1938. He studied under Minao Shibata, Roh Ogura, and Iannis Xenakis. From 1963 to 1966, he worked as a contemporary-music pianist in France and Germany. From 1966 to 1971, he performed and researched computer music in the United States. After returning to Japan in 1972, he co-founded the composers group Transonic with Toru Takemitsu and others in 1974, editing its quarterly journal until 1976. From 1978 to 1985, he arranged and performed protest songs from around the world with the Suigyu Band, and from 1980 to 1987, he published the monthly independent magazine Suigyu Tsushin. His publications include Yuji Takahashi: The 1970s Collection and The Silence of Sound, the Sound of Silence from Heibonsha, as well as Music as a Starting Point and Kafka Notes from Misuzu Shobo.
yuji takahashiの他のリリース
ATAK
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