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Yori-Aki Matsudaira
<Biography>
Yori-Aki MATSUDAIRA was born in Tokyo in March 27th 1931.
He studied the biology at Tokyo Metropolitan University
He is self-taught in both piano and composition.
From 1957 to 60, he used of serial procedures.
The next 6 years he interested in the indeterminacy.
For 10 years from 1966, he composed with the combining technique,
as defined by American artist, Robert Rauschenberg.
From 1972, he turned to the new modal music.
Recently, he has been establishing the pitch-interval technique
as the extention of the modal technique.
His pieces has been selected for the World Music Days,
held by the ISCM (International Society for Contemporary Music)
for 9 times, 1958, '67, '69, '72, '75, '84, '87, '91, and '93.
In 1990, he was awarded the special prize of Moeck Verlag at
the 3rd Kazimierz Serocki International Competition for Composition.
Since 1982 to 1991 (every year), 1997 and 2001,
he has held the concerts for his chamber pieces,
and in 1995 and 2005, orchestral pieces (in Tokyo).
From 1998 to 2002, he was the president of the Japanese section
of ISCM,
and invited the World Music Days in Yokohama in 2001.
<Works>
- Variations [pf, vn, vc] (1957) 14' score<Zerboni ESZ5506> rec<Publisher Recording> *selected ISCM 1958 (Strasbourg)
- Velocity Coefficient [fl, key, perc, pf, cond] (1958)
- Syntaxis [3 chamb-ens] (1959)
- La vie noire, le beton blanc (text by 16 poets) [2 nar, chamb-orch] (1959)
- Orbits [fl, cl, pf, cond] (1960)
- Instruction [pf] (1961)
- Co-Action [vc, pf] (1962) score<Zerboni ESZ6623> rec<AA9674>
- Configuration I [chamb-orch] (1961-63) score<Zerboni ESZ6424> *selected ISCM 1967 (Prague)
- Configuration II [chamb-orch] (1963)
- Transient '64 [tape] (1963-64) 20' CD<FOCD2511>→Amazon.jp
- Rhymes for GAZZELLONI [fl, (perc)] (1965-66) 7' score<Zerboni ESZ6617> CD<FOCD3252> CD<Hat hut>→Amazon.de other rec= <SONC16019><SONC10483><WER60029><PA1033><CBS61258>
- Distribution [2vn, vla, vc, ring modurator, cond] (1966-67) 10' score<Zerboni ESZ7109> *selected ISCM 1969 (Hamburg)
- Alternation for combo [trp, cb, perc, pf, elec, cond] (1967) 12' score<Zerboni ESZ6928>
- Assemblages [tape] (1968) 15' CD<FOCD2511>→Amazon.jp
- Assemblage [6 fem-vo] (1968)
- Allotoropy [pf] (1970) 10' score<Zerboni ESZ7260> CD<EMI 18MN-1015> other rec= <EAA85014><SRA4921><(CP)3-5><EAC60153>
- Wand Waves [tape] (1970) score<Zerboni ESZ7271>
- Why not? [indefinite players] (1970)
- What's next? [sop, 2 noise makers, cond, tape] (1967-71) 13' score<Zerboni ESZ7400> *selected ISCM 1972 (Graz)
- Gradation [vn, vla, oscillator] (1971) score<Zerboni ESZ7233>
- The Symphonie [14 players, cond / or tape, cond] (1971)
- Substitution [sop, pf] (1972) score<Zerboni ESZ7587> rec<Cl.P.70-113>
- Etudes [pf] (1971-73)
- Messages I [woodwinds, tape] (1973) score<Zerboni ESZ7588>
- Where now? [actress, male dancer, instrumentalists] (1973) score<Zerboni ESZ7695>
- Transient '74 [gt, harmonium, perc] (1974)
- Elegie for ARON [sop] (1974)
- The Music [car drivers, cho, instrumentalists, operators] (1974/77)
- Simulation [tuba] (1974-75) 10' score<Zerboni ESZ8094> *selected ISCM 1975 (Paris)
- Accumulation [vn, elec] (1976) 10'
- Coherency for ARK [fl, cl, hrp, perc, el-pf] (1976) 10'
- Shift [fl, cl, 2 el-org, perc] (1976)
- Messages II [16 brass-ens] (1978)
- Oscillation [mar, 3 orch] (1977) 16' CD<KICC2018>→Amazon.jp <FOCD3188>→Amazon.jp *OTAKA Prize
- Monuments [sop, fl, trbn, vc, elec] (1977)
- Brilliancy [fl, pf] (1978) rec<AL21>
- Coding I [pf] (1978)
- Epitaph for SESSHUH KAI [7 inst] (1979)
- Gestaphony [sax] (1979)
- Spectra [3 amplified-gt] (1979) score<Tokyo Art Service>
- Erixatone [el-pf, tape] (1979) rec<AL24>
- Why not? (piano version) [pf] (1979)
- Albedo [sop, vla, pf] (1979-80) CD<LMCD1443>
- Zoellka [2 fl] (1980) score<Tokyo Art Service>
- Celebration [pf] (1980) score<Tokyo Art Service> rec<AL24>
- It's gonna be a hardcore! [sop, pf] (1980) score<Tokyo Art Service>
- Epitaph for YOSHIRO IRINO [fl, shakuhachi, scho, 2 kotos, 2 perc, pf, cond]
(1980)
- to the Victims of Cain [shamisen, tape] (1980) 13' socre<TA photo>
CD<VICG8002>→eMedia
- Genesis [sop, fl, cl, vc, pf] (1981) 11' score<Sonic Arts> CD<VICC-60113>→eMedia
- Archaeology [sop (perc)] (1981) 7' score<Tokyo Art Service>
- Extension [perc ens.] (1981)
- Salve Regina [2 key, vocorder] (1981)
- Fluctuation [mar, mar-maya or tape] (1981)
- Resonance [pf] (1982)
- Kurtosis I [orch] (1982) 15' CD<32CM-218>→Amazon.jp CD<FOCD3188>→Amazon.jp *selected ISCM 1984 (Canada)
- Kurtosis II [2 pf] (1982)
- Bedside Moonlight [sop, pf] (1982)
- Magnification [cemb] (1983)
- Like as likes.... [sop] (1983)
- Constellation [electronic sounds by UPIC System] (1984)
- Epitaph for SATOSHI ASHIKAWA [pf, feedback system] (1984)
- Scroll [3 bass cl] (1984)
- Blending [pf] (1984) score<Sonic Arts>
- Annotation [pf] (1984) 9' score<Sonic Arts> CD<ALCD40>→Tower.jp CD<ALCD62>→ALM
- Marquitry [fl, cl, hrp, perc, pf] (1976/85)
- Requiem saecularem I (text by E. USAMI) [9 inst] (1985) score<Sonic
Arts>
- Crystal [glass harp, 2 perc] (1985)
- Duologue [shamisen, koto] (1984/86)
- Trecento [org] (1985/86)
- Undulation [gt] (1986) 10' CD<ALCD-35>
- Reunion [2 vn] (1986) 10' *selected ISCM 1987 (Koeln)
- Perpetual mobile [child-cho] (1986) 10' CD<MMS9008/9> CD<20CM187>→Amazon.jp score<mother earth M0020>
- The Conduct [conductors, lighting operator, tape] (1986)
- Declaration [tro, pf] (1987)
- Ornithology [gamelan] (1987) score<mother earth M0015>
- Lamentation [pf] (1987) 9' CD<ALCD40>→Tower.jp CD<ALCD62>→ALM
- Palindrome [vn, pf] (1987)
- Replacement [cb] (1987) score<mother earth M0008>
- Reciprocation [shakuhachi, shamisen, koto] (1987) score <mother earth M0004>
- Brightness [pf] (1988)
- Interchanging [rec] (1988)
- Waving [org] (1988)
- Prologue and Epilogue from opera “The Provocators” [electone] (1988)
- Perspective A [pf] (1988)
- Perspective B [pf] (1988) 11' CD<ALCD40>→Tower.jp
- Variegation [str-ens, cemb (or pf)] (1988)
- Requiem saecularem VI & VIII (text by E. USAMI) [hrn, 2 trp, 2 trb,
perc] (1988)
- Heptahedra [hrp] (1989) score<mother earth M0003>
- Lexicon [pf] (1989)
- Toybox [pf] (1989) 8' CD<ALCD40>→Tower.jp CD<VMM2014>→Amazon.com
- Recollection [pf, chamb-orch] (1989) 13' CD<FOCD3188>→Amazon.jp *selected ISCM 1991 (Zuerich) *special prize of Moeck Verlag at K. Serocki International Competition for Composition
- Engraving I & II [fl, pf] (1989) score<mother earth M0011>
- And I love.... (based on the tune of Beatles) [pf] (1989) CD<TOCE6233>→Amazon.jp
- (duo version of above piece) [trp, pf] CD<ALCD3066>→Tower.jo
- GALA [pf] (1990) 10' score<Sonic Arts> CD<ALCD40>→Tower.jp
- Metathesis [accord] (1990)
- Modification [pf] (1990) 10' score<Sonic Arts> CD<ALCD40>→Tower.jp
- Binary-Stars [2 pf] (1990) 7' CD<ALCD40>→Tower.jp
- 0, 1 & 2 for U [vc] (1990)
- Multistrata [pf] (1990) 8' score<Sonic Arts> CD<ALCD62>→ALM
- Symposium [cho] (1990) score <mother earth M0009>
- 5 Folklores [child-cho] (1991) 13' CD<32CM-283>→eMedia score <mother earth M0021>
- Revolution [pf, orch] (1991) 16' CD<FOCD2511>→Amazon.jp
- Semiology for John Dowland [sop, tape] (1991)
- Domain [2 vn, vla, vc] (1991) 10' score<Sonic Arts> *selected ISCM
1993 (Mexico City)
- Fresco [gagaku instruments] (1991)
- Morphogenesis I [pf] (1991) score<Sonic Arts>
- Morphogenesis II [pf] (1992) score<Sonic Arts>
- Mac Voices [sop, elec, tape] (1992)
- Morphogenesis III [pf] (1992) score<Sonic Arts>
- Colorization [cl, gt, perc, pf] (1992) score<mother earth M0012>
- Acrostics [pf] (1992) 12' score<Sonic Arts> CD<ALCD62>→ALM
- Response [cb, ob] (1992) score<mother earth M0010>
- Michelangelo's Pup [pf] (1993) score<mother earth M0005>
- Dialogue [vn, cemb] (1993)
- Coexistence [pf, gamelan instruments] (1993) score<mother earth M0013>
- Morphogenesis IV [pf] (1994) score<Sonic Arts>
- Convolution [pf, 3 hichirikis] (1994) 11' score<mother earth M0014> CD<ALCD46>→Tower.jp
- to you from..... [pf] (1994) 10' CD<ALCD59>
- Helices [orch] (1995) 16' CD<FOCD3188>→Amazon.jp
- Cardgame [sop] (1995) score <mother earth M0006>
- Blessing [bsn, pf] (1995)
- Transliteration [vla] (1996) score<mother earth M0007>
- WooDruM.et.al. [perc] (1996)
- Interlude from Requiem [org, zephyros(valve-slide trp)] (1996)
- Remembrance [pf, orch] (1996)
- List for INOUE SATOKO [pf] (1997)
- The Prayer [org] (1997) score<mother earth M0002>
- Memorial for Kuniharu AKIYAMA [pf] (1997)
- Cores [pf, comp] (1997) 12'
- Sparkling [fl, 2 vn, pf, toy-pf] (1997) score<mother earth M0001>
- Kanon XXIX & VIII (based on the Kanon by SCHOENBERG) [gt, mand, cl,
vn, vla, vc] (1997) score<Tre Media>
- Thema & Variations [gt, mand, cl, vn, vla, vc] (1997) 9' score<Tre Media> CD<MGB CTS-M87>
- Micell [chamb-orch] (1999)
- Grating [gt] (1999) score<Tre Media TME410> CD<MGB>→Amazon.de
- La Genealogie des Etoiles [sop, vn, vc, cb, perc, pf] (1999)
- Le Ranz des Vaches [child-cho] (1999) score<mother earth M0016>
- Maria della Glisch [child-cho] (1999) score<mother earth M0017>
- Tori no Uta [child-cho] (1999) score<mother earth M0018>
- Sakura [child-cho] (1999) score<mother earth M0019>
- 24 Essays [pf] (2000-continue) *completed 17 pieces
- Dialectics I [cb, obligated ob] (2001)
- Akademische Fest Musik [pf] (2003)
- Requiem [mixed cho, orch, org] (2004)
- Dialectics II [orch] (2004)
- Morphogenesis I (orch. version) [orch] (2005)
- Polychronometry [cl] (2005)
- Bee in the Cage[sop, mandlin orch] (2005)
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