Masashi Harada CONDUCTION ENSEMBLE

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Masashi Harada

Conduction Ensemble

Nośnik	Wydawca	Cena	Waluta
1 CD	Emanem (Anglia)	49	PLN

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In the school of improvised music sound is thought of as gesture, texture, geometry, flow, etc.; these are visual elements as well. Musicians use their entire body to relate to the instrument and the space where they perform. In my experience as a musician, I learned that music does not only involve activation of temporal spatial field with sonic objects, but also involves emphasis on the visual element of dance and conducting that is strongly connected with the production of music.

While I was growing up I often listened to music while conducting in front of my window. At night when it was dark, I could see my movement in the reflection. I began to collect orchestral scores and practised conducting to the written notes and written music at the same time. During the following years, I became fascinated by music written in the 20th century, specifically Stravinsky and Takemitsu. When I discovered free jazz my body was shaken in quite a different way though it was very natural to my body.

I attended numerous concerts where the music was improvised and I couldn't help but to move my body. I was personalising my joy of hearing the music. Sometimes it was a battle between being self-conscious and being completely taken in. Moving my body to the music helped the practical and conceptual development of my piano and percussion skills. Soon my body and dance became the main musical concept. Body, breath, gesture and texture reconstituted my musical thinking.

One time I was dancing at a concert (sometimes this was not so easy for the rest of the audience to accept) and I felt an almost indescribable intention with one of the performers; it was as if I was activating the sounds the performer was making with his instrument. My body was so tuned to the music that I felt that my perception was as creative as the act of producing sound itself. I discovered that in perceiving, one might actually create a new reality. I later practised my findings by using dance as a silent percussion method and I decided movement could be directly involved with music making. I concluded to connect conducting, dance and improvisation and call it Condanction.

When musicians perform on their specific instrument the fingerings, breathing and gesture required to produce specific sounds is a strict choreographic aspect of performance. Condanction exploits this feedback mechanism between physical movements of the Condanctor and a group of improvising musicians exploring the border between dance and music. In the Masashi Harada Condanction Ensemble, my physical movements initiate sounds created by the musicians while those audio representations circulate back into my physical gestures. This constant interaction creates a visual spectacle; it generates dance and music continuously.

MASASHI HARADA (1999)
Currently Associate Professor of Art, Hiroshima International University, Hiroshima, Japan; and Faculty member, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, where he teaches collective improvisation.

Utwory

Conduction Ensemble - Masashi Harada

01. Kropotkin vs Huxley (12:53) >>> MP3 <<<
02. Voices (2:28) >>> MP3 <<<
03. Giacinto (8:11) >>> MP3 <<<

04. Clarity Beneath the Cloud (8:04)
05. Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast (13:30)
06. The Whipping or String of Lava (6:00)
07. Cut off (5:12)
08. Tomasic Concerto (3:15)
09. Bells (14:08)

Dodatkowe informacje

Digital studio recordings made in Boston
by MICHAEL CAGLIANONE - 1999 December 14
Total time 73:41

Wykonawcy

GREG KELLEY trumpet
TUCKER DULIN trombone
CHRISTIAN PINCOCK trombone (8-9)
ERIC CARLSON tuba (1-7)
BHOB RAINEY soprano saxophone
ALETA COLE violin (1-7)
DAN LEVIN cello (1-7)
MIKE BULLOCK double bass
PHIL TOMASIC electric guitar
MASASHI HARADA condanction
voice and percussion performed by the ensemble