Music of Jikken Kobo

Music of Jikken Kobo
実験工房の音楽
Presented by Dr. Mihoko Watanabe
th
The 39 NFA Convention, Charlotte, North Carolina
August 14, 2011
I.
Jikken Kobo (実験工房):
1951
1955
play
II.
- Jikken Kobo（Experimental Workshop) established
• Takiguchi Shuzo（瀧口修造）
• To experiment in combinations of traditional
Japanese modalities with its modernistic
procedure
• Toru Takemitsu(1930-1966), Joji
Yuasa(b.1927), Keijiro Sato (b.1927),
Hiroyoshi Suzuki (b.1931), Kazuo Fukushima
(b.1930), and Takahiro Sonoda (b.1928).
•
Portamento
•
Muraiki (ム ラ 息)
•
Controlled vibrato
- Schoenberg’s “Pierrot Lunaire” in the form of Noh
Itinerant (1989) by Toru Takemitsu (武満徹)
Toru Takemitsu
Isamy Noguchi
 MA (間)
 Western Techniques
• Multiphonic
 Shakuhachi (尺八)
• Timbre trill
•
Whistle tone
Performance
2011©Mihoko Watanabe
Music of Jikken Kobo
実験工房の音楽
Presented by Dr. Mihoko Watanabe
th
The 39 NFA Convention, Charlotte, North Carolina
August 14, 2011
III.
•
Hishigi
•
Unstable Pitches
•
MA (see Example for Hishigi
above)
Mai Bataraki II (1987) by Joji Yuasa (湯浅譲二)
Joji Yuasa
• Noh
• Noh kan - Construction
• Mai Bataraki (舞働き) - Dance movement/piece
• Jo-Ha-Kyu (序−破—急)
• 3 Kusari (chain)
o
o
Hishigi (ヒシギ)
Ashirai fuu (あしらい風)
Performance
* Flutist Quarterly – “Essence of Mei: An exploration of the
inspiration behind Mei through interviews with the composer,”
Spring 2008
o
MA
V:
Comments & Questions:
Please contact Dr. Mihoko Watanabe (watanabe@bsu.edu)
Performance
IV.
Mei (1962) by Kazuo Fukushima (福島和夫)
Kazuo Fukushima
• Mei (冥 ) – Dark, Parl, Untouchable, world of the dead
• Wolfgang Steinecke
• Servino Gazzelloni
• “You say Shakuhachi, I say NOH!”
2011©Mihoko Watanabe