hybrid music

*Information at the time of adoption.

Name of the organization or individual

Naya Collective Limited

subsidy category

Tokyo Arts and Culture Promotion Subsidy

Grant Type

single year

FY 2013 Phase I Tokyo Arts and Culture Promotion Grant (Single Year Grant Program)

Sammlung der Berlinische Galerie, Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur.

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Business Overview

This is a unique concert where you can enjoy and think about the relationship between music and technology. A thrilling collaboration between the music machines of Martin Ritges, an artist known worldwide as the creator of automatic playing machines, and the brilliant minds of modern music. His machines were created on the basis of the automatic machine (robot) culture and ideas of the 18 century. Controlled by 21 century computer software, it becomes possible to play together with acoustic instruments, a truly hybrid music. Composers from Japan, Germany and Britain, including Miwa Masahiro, contributed music. For the performance, soloists from Japan, the United States and Italy were invited, and an ensemble of Japanese and German musicians was formed. Global collaboration is realized.

implementation period

February 11, 2014 (Tue, national holiday)

Place of implementation

Asahi Art Square (Sumida Ward, Tokyo)

Profile

【 Miwa Masahiro 】
Born in Tokyo in 1958. He studied composition under Yin Isou at the National Berlin University of the Arts in 1978 and under Günther Becker at the Robert Schumann University of Music in 1985. He received many awards including (Top Award, Austria) in 2007. He has been a professor at Gifu Graduate School of Information Science and Art (IAMAS) since 2000. In 2000, he formed the Formant Brothers with his fellow professor Nobuyasu Sakonda, a composer and artist, and published works on voice and machines.