real-time/non
real-time
ELECTRONIC MUSIC
Festival
16-19
June 2005
Kurator / curator: Takayuki Rai
Konzertnotizen / concert notes
two-sides
(2001)
for tape
"two-sides" means the right and reverse
sides of the composer's emotions. Most of the sounds contain the digital
clip noise which was created by some unusual operations of Max/MSP and
another wave form editor.
This piece was premiered in Japan in 2001, and was selected at the ICMC
2002 in Sweden.
Yukiko Ito was born in Ehime in 1978. She completed her master study at the Sonology Department, Kunitachi College of Music in 2002. Since she started studying computer music at the Sonology Department she has been creating tape music and pieces for various instruments and computer using Max/MSP. In 2000 she had received a significant influence from Masami Akita's performance at OFF-ICMC in Berlin, and started to realize live performances.
Now she is expanding her activity into theater and dance field by collaborating with various artists. Her works were selected at the ICMC in 1999 and 2002.
This work was developed for dance improvisation, digitally processed visual effects and electronic sounds. The live electronic system consists of two Macintosh computers. During the piece, dance performance on the stage is captured by a digital video camera, and is sent to the computer. The same video signal is processed variously in real time as programmed by means of DIPS (Digital Image Processing with Sound) software, then projected to the screen. Several data from the sound part, such as amplitude, attack and so on, are applied to the image processing parameters. Thus the visual image on the screen is deeply interacted with the dance and sound. The main purpose of the piece is to experiment with the relationship between the gradual/sudden transformation of a dancer’s motion, electronic glitch sounds and visual textures as results of modulation.
The sound part was organized using the composer’s idiom “Sound Creature”. This work was commissioned by Inventionen 2004, and realized at Electronic Music Studio TU Berlin. Also I gratefully acknowledge the support of the dancer Kazue Ikeda and DIPS developer Shu Matsuda, who made this project possible.
Shintaro Imai was born in Nagano, Japan in 1974. He studied composition and computer music with Takayuki Rai, Erik Oña and Cort Lippe at Sonology Department of Kunitachi College of Music. After completing his post graduate study in Tokyo, he went to Paris to attend Course of Composition and Computer Music at Ircam and studied composition with Philippe Hurel. Between 2002 and 2003 he received a grant from Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs, and worked as a guest composer at ZKM Institute for Music and Acoustics in Karlsruhe, Germany. In the year of 2004 he was an Artist in Residence of DAAD Berlin, and worked as a guest composer at Electronic Music Studio TU Berlin.
He was awarded “Residence Prize” at the 26th International Electroacoustic Music Competition of Bourges in France in 1999, and invited as a composer in residence at Swiss Center for Computer Music in Zurich in December 2000. And then he won the First Prize and
“Special Prize for Young Composer” at MUSICA NOVA 2000 International Electroacoustic Music Competition in the Czech Republic and “EARPLAY Composers Prize” at EARPLAY 2001 Composers Competition in USA. His
works have also been selected and performed at numerous international festivals and conferences including International Computer Music Conference 1999 in Beijing and ISCM World Music Days 2002 in Hong-Kong.
Butterfly is a piece for soprano and interactive multimedia computer system(two Macintosh computers. One computer, running Max/MSP, generates electroacoustic sounds in response to musical input. The other, running DIPS, generates animated images in real-time and projects it on the screen behind the vocalist. These two are connected via Ethernet. The former sends sound analysis results as well as cues to the other. The latter channels this data for use as graphic parameters. In other words, the generated images are synchronized with the sound. Surface and environmental texture effects are mainly employed for the graphics. Both captured images by CCD video camera in front of the player, and animated images of the butterfly generated in real-time are assigned as textures to three-dimensional models of various kinds.
Chikashi Miyama has been studying composition and computer music with Takayuki Rai and Cort Lippe at the Sonology Department, kunitachi College of Music since 1998. In 2004, he began studying composition with Erik Ona at the Musik-Akademie der Stadt Basel in Switzerland.
His works, especially his interactive multimedia works, have been performed in various international occasions such as June in Buffalo 2001 in the USA, Mix'02 in denmark, Musica Viva'03 in Portugal, as well as in Japan. One of his works received mention in the Residence Prize section of the 30th International Electroacoustic Music Competition Bourges.
for harp and tape
This work was realized at the Institute of Sonology in the Netherlands and premiered in Tokyo in 1984. The tape part was created with real-time computer sound synthesis techniques, and real-time computer transformations of sections of the harp part. Two PDP-15 computers were employed in this process. For the real-time sound synthesis, the "PILEM" application developed by Paul Berg was used. The signal processing programs were written by the composer in FORTRAN and Macro Assembler. This work won First Prize in the Mixed Electroacoustic Music Category at the 13th International Electroacoustic Music Competition of Bourges, France, and was selected for performance at the 1998 International Computer Music Conference in Cologne.
Takayuki Rai was born in Tokyo in 1954. He studied composition with Yoshiro Irino in Japan and Helmut Lachenmann in Germany, and computer music with Paul Berg at the Institute of Sonology in the Netherlands. He worked at the Institute of Sonology as a guest composer from 1982 until 1990.
His works have been selected at numerous international competitions, including the Gaudeamus Competition of Composition, the ISCM World Music Days, and the International Computer Music Conference. He also won the premier prizes at the 13th and 17th International Electroacoustic Music Competition Bourges in France, the Irino Composition Prize in Japan, and 1st prize at the NEWCOMP International Computer Music Competition in USA. In
1991 he received the ICMA (International Computer Music Association) Commission Award.
Since 1991 he has been teaching computer music at the Sonology Department, Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo.
for harp and computer
This work was
composed for harp and a live computer system, consisting of a Macintosh
computer running Max/MSP. The live computer system samples the sound of
the harp, performs digital signal processing on it, and reproduces the
transformed harp sound in the hall in real-time. Various sound synthesis
and signal processing techniques, including modulating spectral data
through FFT/iFFT processing, are employed.
This piece was commissioned by and premiered at the Media Art Festival
2001 at Sizuoka University of Art and Culture in Japan, and selected for
performance at the 2002 International Computer Music Conference in
Gothenburg, Sweden.
While the computer technology is involved the piece keeps the classical
instrumental image of the harp.
Takayuki Rai (see above)
for tenor saxophone and computer
(interactive multimedia)
This piece was composed for solo tenor saxophone and an interactive multimedia computer system consisting of two Macintosh computers. The computer part for sound processing was realized using Max/MSP. It transforms the saxophone sound in the time-domain and spectral domain in real-time.
Granular sampling, harmonizing, frequency shifting, phasing, and spectrum analysis/re-synthesis are employed. During the performance, a CCD camera is focussed on the performer on stage. The computer for image processing handles these incoming video images in real-time using the DIPS software that has been developed by the composer. The processed images are projected to the screen on the stage. The sound of the saxophone influences the processing of the images, thus the performer can control the image projection as well as sound diffusion.
Shu Matsuda was born in Japan in 1974. He studied computer music, composition and computer programming technique with Takayuki Rai at the Sonology Department, Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo. While he was in undergraduate and post graduate classes, he also studied Max for ISPW and Max/MSP programming technique with Cort Lippe and Erik Ona. In 1994 he developed his first application, Edge for a motion detect system with video input for the NeXT Dimension computer. Edge was presented at the ICMC 1995 in Banff. In 1997 he started developing the new application DIPS, Digital Image Processing with Sound, to enable real-time 3D object rendering and image processing in the Max programming environment. DIPS was originally plugin-in software for FTS Max and now it is for jMax. His papers about DIPS has often been presented at the ICMC since 2000 and on other occasions. Also his musical work has been selected at the ICMC for performance. In addition to teaching computer music at the Kurashiki Sakuyo University, he is doing software engineering for Digital Art Creation in Japan.
for guitar and computer
This work was composed for guitar and a live computer system, consisting of a Macintosh computer running Max/MSP. The live computer system samples the sound of the guitar, performs digital signal processing on it, and reproduces the transformed guitar sound in the hall in real-time. Various sound synthesis and signal processing techniques are employed. The pitch and intensity data of guitar performance are also detected, and sound synthes and signal processing are influenced by those data. In this piece the acoustic facade is being created in the time domain with guitar and computer-transformed guitar sound.
This piece was premiered as an interactive multimedia computer piece at the SonicArt 2003 in Tokyo.