ESTUDIO 3
ÉTUDE FOR PIANO AND ELECTRONICS
THIS ETUDE IS PART OF "Estudios del Ma", a series of multi-disciplinary études dedicated to connecting various art forms through a specific concept or topic. In these études, the main focus is on the time-space, based on the concept of MA.
[...] we can find various literal meanings to this term in nowadays Japanese language, such as “interval”, “space”, “between” or “among”; but to understand this term better we could look into its uses within the ancient Japanese. In The Iwanami’s Dictionary of Early Terms we can find some specific references on how this term was used in the early language, with definitions such as “the natural distance between two or more things existing in a continuity” or “the natural pause or interval between two or more phenomena occurring continuously”.
ESTUDIO 3 is constructed by using the two versions of the IN scale, Kumoi and Hira. Seven patterns of chords create a seven-bar loop which is repeating seven times. From these patterns, only a few chords are played in every repetition, creating a wide feeling of space. thIS IS INSPIRED BY THE PAINTING "Shōrin-zu byōbu" by hasegawa tohaku (ca. 1595) in which the fog covers a forest shoing only a few trees and creating a great sense of space.
While the piano creates a structure dividing the time, the electronics are playing back resonances from the piano chords already heard, building an imaginary line during the whole piece.
Composition Juan Fran Cabrera
Performance Anna Smirnova & Juan Fran Cabrera
[...] we can find various literal meanings to this term in nowadays Japanese language, such as “interval”, “space”, “between” or “among”; but to understand this term better we could look into its uses within the ancient Japanese. In The Iwanami’s Dictionary of Early Terms we can find some specific references on how this term was used in the early language, with definitions such as “the natural distance between two or more things existing in a continuity” or “the natural pause or interval between two or more phenomena occurring continuously”.
[...] we can find various literal meanings to this term in nowadays Japanese language, such as “interval”, “space”, “between” or “among”; but to understand this term better we could look into its uses within the ancient Japanese. In The Iwanami’s Dictionary of Early Terms we can find some specific references on how this term was used in the early language, with definitions such as “the natural distance between two or more things existing in a continuity” or “the natural pause or interval between two or more phenomena occurring continuously”.
"SHŌRIN-ZU BYŌBU"
HASEGAWA TOHAKU
CA. 1595