Yoshimura, Hiroshi : STATIC FOR PIANO
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Author : Sudoh, Eiko
Last Updated: April 25, 2018
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Author : Sudoh, Eiko
The Book of Silence (Shunjusha, 2003) is the sole collection of piano works by Hiroyuki Yoshimura. Originally, it was piano music created as environmental music at the request of a housing manufacturer in the 1980s. Initially, there was only an audio source and no score, but later, the composer's autograph scores, essays, and paintings were added, and it was reissued as a CD-BOOK (the CD performance is by Satsuki Shibano, who studied Satie's piano music in France). It is Yoshimura's last work, created in 2003, in his final years, and can be described as his unique 'Gesamtkunstwerk' (total work of art) comprising sound, scores, text, and paintings.
Yoshimura, who only had a synthesizer at home and longed for a piano, felt the fresh resonance and lingering echoes of the sound when he touched a live piano at a friend's house. All 11 pieces were created improvisationally, while he intently listened to these sounds. Many pieces feature whole notes, half notes, and fermatas, and some even lack time signatures or bar lines. A 'stillness that can only be expressed through the sound of the piano, like the long, lingering echo after a bell has been struck,' permeates this entire collection.
Author : Sudoh, Eiko
Last Updated: April 25, 2018
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Author : Sudoh, Eiko
“The Book of Tranquility” (Shunjusha Publishing Company, 2003) is Hiroshi Yoshimura’s only collection of his piano works. Originally it was written for the environmental background piano music, made at the request of a housing maker in the 1980s. There was no musical score but only a sound source at the time. In 2003, it was reprinted as a CD-BOOK, adding the composer’s autographic scores, essays and paintings. The player in the CD is Satsuki Shibano who learned Satie’s piano piece in France. It is his last work produced in his final year, which can be called ‘Comprehensive art’ unique to Yoshimura.
Yoshimura had only a synthesizer at home, but no piano. When he played the piano at his friend’s house, he felt the freshness and the reverberation of its sound fully. Listening to the sound of the piano deeply, all of the 11 songs in the collection were improvised. They include many whole notes, half notes, fermatas, etc. Also there are songs with no meter or bar line. Therefore, this collection is full of tranquility, which he explained to be ‘unique to the sound of the piano... like the long lasting after a bell rings…’.
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