Cloud Atlas/Vertical Study
Label: Sub Rosa
Format: CD
Genre: Compositional
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Cloud Atlas is a collection of ten short pieces composed by Toshi Ichiyanagi between 1985 to 1999. Vertical Study gathers rare pieces composed by Claude Ledoux. Both are performed by Japanese pianist Kaoru Tashiro. "Kaoru
produces serene, yet rich sound texture; the fluctuation of beat and
the perspective of the motif are ingenious. I hope many more people will
taste this joy of finding a grain of gold with your own eyes and ears,
from her commercialism-unrelated, sincere and an experimental
performance." --Miyuki Shiraishi, Asahi Journal Digipack includes 16-page booklet.
Toshi Ichiyanaghi is a legend. Close friend of John Cage and Nam June Paik, he was also the first husband of Yoko Ono -- Fluxus period. His Cloud Atlas
is a collection of ten short pieces composed between 1985 to 1999. From
exclusives notes from the booklet: "Music has been defined as temporal
art, however the temporal elements of music have been gradually
decreased and lacking since the late 19th century. I feel that we need
to compensate for the lack of those elements and introduce new elements,
which can be alternative to them, in my case, it is substantial space,
in order to restore the spiritual richness that music provides."
Currently, he serves as Artistic Director of TIME; Artistic Director of
Ensemble Origin_A Millennium of Resonance; Adviser of the Japan Music
Competition; Board Member of Saison Foundation; Councilor of Suntory
Foundation for Arts and General Artistic Director of the Kanagawa Arts
Foudation.
Claude Ledoux was a pupil of Henri Pousseur. He
obtained a Master in Music Sciences from the Liège University.
Nowadays, he works as a musical journalist and lecturer as well as a
Musical Analysis professor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de
Musique de Paris (France). In Spring 2013, he was invited in China for
lectures of Master classes at the Shanghai Conservatory. The same year
he founded the LAPS Ensemble which mixes laptops and acoustic
instruments. The pieces presented here are an example of his interest
for both his love for Japan and the cosmos.
Cat. number: SR 473CD
Year: 2019