Score & Shapes
Variations on Japanese Children's Songs
Variations on Japanese Children's Songs
A music teacher often said, "Imagine the shape of a sound." Performances generate sounds from physical movements, but by expanding internal emotions and imagination, the sounds can be changed, and various sounds can be delivered to the listener.
In the era in which sounds (music) are expressed, the scenery is the season, animals or people, gender, emotions. I think that the player reads all the hypotheses from the score written by the composer and creates sounds through his body.
"Score and figure" is an attempt to derive the shape of the sound from the articulation * on the score and visualize the music from that shape.
"Variations on Japanese Children's Songs" composed by Keiko Abe, a master of the marimba world, was selected as the song. Mr. Abe is the person who created many 5-octave marimba songs, opening up the age of marimba with a short history. As the title of the song shows, the phrases of the song are gently interwoven, and while the melody reminds us of a nostalgic Japanese landscape, it is a song where you can enjoy the heavy bass and power that only Marimba can provide.
"Variations on Japanese Children's Songs" composed by Keiko Abe, a master of the marimba world, was selected as the song. Mr. Abe is the person who created many 5-octave marimba songs, opening up the age of marimba with a short history. As the title of the song shows, the phrases of the song are gently interwoven, and while the melody reminds us of a nostalgic Japanese landscape, it is a song where you can enjoy the heavy bass and power that only Marimba can provide.
Draw the shape of the sound by tracing the memory of the performance and the marks left on the score during the practice. I hope that when the shape is reconstructed, the expression of the music will be visualized as my experience.
Design: Keiji Yano
Print: Risograph
Design: Keiji Yano
Print: Risograph
