This exhibition of composition vol.3 “Story and Music” was intended to be the foundation of an opera that is planning to write and compose in the future. There is a lot of abstract contemporary music in the world, but in this project, I aimed to present works that are easy to convey to many people. To that end, I took in the themes and stories of words and drew contemporary music works that are inseparable from society and that can be greatly sympathized by various people or that give them an opportunity to think for themselves.

Performer:
Soprano: Akane Kudo
Piano: Machiko Shoju
Koto: Miki Yamamizu
Contrabass: Yoji Sato
Percussion: Mizuki Aita
Staff:
Ichitaro Inoue, Masamichi Kinoshita, Tadahisa Nakamura, Nanako Fujishige

Program (8 works):
・ Sougaku-By Shuntaro Tanikawa’s poem- (2018) {13 minutes} Koto
・ Three small stories {4 × 3 = 12 minutes} Soprano & Piano * New piece premiere
(* Philosophy and social issues are dealt with based on Aesop’s story.)
・ Fe (2019 / Revised Edition Premiere) {16 minutes} Vibraphone & Contrabass
・ Kaleidoscope Shabon (2016) {12 minutes} Koto & Piano
・ Eternity-By Arthur Rimbaud’s Poem- (2018 / Revised Premiere) {3 minutes} Soprano & Piano
・ Music picture book “Yovivoen goes to Indonesia (picture: Megumi Kimura)” {15 minutes} Narration & Koto & Gender & Piano * New piece premiere
(* Handles history in Indonesia and the concept of “unification in diversity”.)
・ Petorun Kamuy (2018) {7 minutes} Vibraphone
・ Mono opera “Schrödinger’s Cats” {17 minutes} Soprano & Koto & Percussion & Contrabass & Piano * New piece premiere (* Thinking about living from the perspective of quantum physics and philosophy)