Piano Sonata no.1 was composed under my imagery of avant-garde music since 100 years ago; if it is defined that avant-garde music began after world war 1. the four movements were all fixed to 100 bars in four-four time, and all played in 100bpm. Latitudefor four piaonos was composed on the assumption that setting two pianos on the each edge of stage, playing them with the damper pedals on, and setting the other two pianos on the center of stage, playing them with the damper pedals off. this is based on my old idea around 1980. the four pianos are supposed to be softly played with transposing each simple pattern in 60bpm. Arbitrary Projection, Predictive Conversation, Corrupting Correction and Elemental Mapping was composed with some motives and their variations that were made by “copy and paste then edit” technique.
all pieces were composed with pcm piano samples and the sequencer of Apple Logic Pro X. the used piano sample is Bösendorfer for Piano Sonata no.1, Steinway for the other pieces.
composed and recorded by Yamaoka Yasuhiro February – October 2018. catalogue number: YOR-38
audio: 26.04.18 generated in April 2018. visual: originally taken in May 2011, processed and edited in April 2013. original size: 1280x720px, duration: 05‘42”.
audio: edit from 06.12.09c generated in December 2009. visuals: taken, processed and edited in April 2014. original size: 1280x720px, duration: 06‘02”.
around 1977, i came to know about 1min/3min looped cassette tape, and got the idea of playing numbers of looped sound endlessly at the same time. but, it was too difficult to prepare the looped cassette tapes and the players, i couldn't complete this idea. This time, i tried the similar idea with audio editor software on computer.
all files composed and produced by parabola.
recorded in tokyo, saitama, new york, february 1998 - march 2018.
mixed in july, 2007 - march, 2018. catalogue number: yor-22
