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musical documentation
title: Resonant Quarks
sub-title: -

year of composition: 1998
realized at: Sonology Department, Kunitachi College of Music

duration: ca. 12 min.
premiere:
____concert: The 5th Computer Music Festival in Seoul
____place: Towol Theatre, Seoul Art Center, Korea
____date: December 4, 1998
instrumentation:
____electroacoustic (4ch loudspeaker)

program note:
This electroacoustic piece was realized with NeXT computer and IRCAM Signal Processing Workstation at the Sonology Department of Kunitachi College of Music, Tokyo in 1998. Compositional algorithm, sound synthesis and mixing programs were all written in the software Max.
____For the composer it was the first experiment on developing his idiom "Sound Creature" by means of microscopic particles in natural sounds. Mainly four sounds sampled from human voice and instruments, moreover each has just one second duration, are used in the piece as musical materials. By being processed via algorithmic granular sampling technique, these are gradually or suddenly changing its timbre and place in space as if dance performance of living creatures.




selected for performance:
____festival: The 5th Computer Music Festival in Seoul
____place: Towol Theatre, Seoul Art Center, Korea
____date: December 8, 1999



further performance:
____concert: Sound & Music Computing conference
____place: Auditorium of the University of Salerno, Italy
____date: November 23, 2005

____concert: Die Unerhörte Musik: Séverine Ballon
____place: BKA Theater, Berlin, Germany
____date: February 15, 2005

____concert: Sound creature – DAAD Porträtkonzert: Shintaro IMAI
____place: Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
____date: December 1, 2004