English | Japanese
Shintaro IMAI
composer | sound artist
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Alexis Descharmes “30 ans > 30 créations” May 3, 2008 | Fondation Spinola, Genova, Italy |
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____“Coherency” for violoncello (2007 | Italy premiere) ________Alexis Descharmes, violoncello |
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Alexis Descharmes “30 ans > 30 créations” May 5, 2008 | Venice, Italy |
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____“Coherency” for violoncello (2007) ________Alexis Descharmes, violoncello |
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Mayumi Hama + Shintaro Imai “rhythm/texture” July 26, 2008 | Chino Cultural Complex, Nagano, Japan |
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____new work for marimba and computer (2008 | premiere) ________Mayumi Hama, marimba |
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| biography | list of works | past activities | prizes, grants etc |
Shintaro Imai (1974) was born in Nagano, Japan. He studied composition and computer music with Takayuki Rai, Erik Oña and Cort Lippe at the Sonology Department of Kunitachi College of Music. After completing his post graduate study in Tokyo, he was invited to attend the Course of Composition and Computer Music at Ircam (Paris) where he studied composition with Philippe Hurel. Between 2002 and 2003 he was the recipient of a grant from the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs, and worked as a guest composer at ZKM Institute for Music and Acoustics in Karlsruhe, Germany. In 2004, he was artist-in-residence at the DAAD Berlin, and worked as a guest composer at the Electronic Music Studio TU Berlin.
____As well as composing purely instrumental pieces, he has developed a real-time algorithmic sound-generating system by means of extended granular sampling techniques, which he called “Sound Creature”. His music is related to the organization of microscopic movements of noise inherent in any given natural sound.
____He was awarded a “Residence Prize” at the 26th International Electroacoustic Music Competition of Bourges in 1999, and invited to be composer-in-residence at the Swiss Center for Computer Music in Zurich in December 2000. His awards include the First Prize and “Special Prize for Young Composer” at MUSICA NOVA 2000 International Electroacoustic Music Competition in the Czech Republic, “EARPLAY Composers Prize” at EARPLAY 2001 Composers Competition in USA, the First Prize at ZKM International Competition for Electroacoustic Music »Short Cuts: Beauty« in Germany, the Special Prize at Yvar Mikhashoff Pianist/Composer Commissioning Project (with pianist Heather O’Donnell), and a working grant at the Künstlerhaus Lukas in Ahrenshoop, Germany. 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.
____Lecturer at Kunitachi College of Music, Tamagawa University.