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■November 23, 2016, Tokyo, JT ART HALL Affinis
■Ryuta Nishikawa; Conductor, Mixed Chorus 'Ku'
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◆Score: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S4Etume16B4qD_MU9VzrXvxnjJGTNMt2/view?usp=sharing
◆Commentary
Human society is made up of the activities of various people, groups, organizations, and companies. Some of these activities are clearly reciprocal, while others, seemingly separate and unrelated, are actually connected in ways we cannot see. This work is a simplified version of such human society, which I composed as a musical work.
In this piece, the mixed chorus is divided into three groups.
The first group mainly makes noisy sounds.
The second group sings in a normal voice.
The third group mainly speaks the text of the title, "Aggregate," which is taken from the descriptions in the public domain dictionaries Webster's Dictionary, 1913 and The Century Dictionary, 1911.
The three groups are basically independent of each other, and there are sections where any one group appears alone, or where several groups appear in parallel, as the music progresses.
And in this piece, Nonsense madrigals III.The Alphabet and Lux Aeterna by Ligeti György, "Ha venido" Canciones para Silvia and ¿Donde estás hermano? by Luigi Nono are quoted in some parts. In some parts of it, the independence of each of the three groups breaks down, and in other parts, the three groups change into the three groups plus the group that sings the quote (i.e. four groups).
At first glance, the individual groups are doing different things, but when viewed as a single musical work, I aimed to create a single (sound) aggregate that can be grasped as a result of the intertwining of what each group is doing.