Dear All,
anyone interested in taking part, for FREE, in the 'Shogi' event with
Makoto Nomura on Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th October and the
weekend of 3rd and 4th November at the Hayward Gallery ?
Free entry for Goldsmiths Students ! (take some ID!!)
Read more below . . .
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Dear Mr Stonehouse
As I briefly mentioned over the telephone earlier today, the Hayward Gallery
are working with a number of Japanese artists over the next two weekends as
part of our current exhibition Facts of Life: Contemporary Japanese Art.
One of the artists, Makoto Nomura, is a musician and much of his work is
based around his participatory performances known as Shogi Composition. I
have forwarded you the artists full account of how it is done for your
information as it is a little complicated to explain over the phone!
The workshops are running on Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th October and also
the weekend of 3rd and 4th November at the Hayward. As the artist has
travelled over from Japan especially to perform his 'composition' it would
be fantastic if we could get as many interested people involved as possible.
I would be very grateful if you could pass on this information to your
students and other staff members who may be interested. We are planning to
start each of the workshops at 3pm and they may last up to 2 hours
--whatever amount of time anyone could give to this would be very much
appreciated.
We would of course give ***free entry*** to the exhibition to anyone
from Goldsmiths who wishes to attend. If they can make themselves known to
the Information Point in the foyer of the gallery approx 15 minutes before
3pm on the day they will be issued with a complimentary ticket.
With many thanks in advance for all your help. If you require any more
information you can reach me on 020 7921 3684. My job-share partner, Fiona
Craig-Sharples will be in the office from tomorrow until Friday on the same
number and is fully aware of the situation.
Kind regards
Cath Hawes
-----Original Message-----
Here is the outline of NOMURA's Shogi project.
Atsuko
Shogi Composition(1999) Makoto NOMURA
Shogi Composition is a kind of recipe for collaborative composition among
various people with different musical backgrounds and various musical
abilities. It is just like playing cards around a table. A few players
around a table compose short passages one after another instead of playing
cards. Please enjoy it and compose new interesting music!
1 The number of players
In order to do Shogi Composition at least 2 players are required. Although
you can do it with 10 or more players theoretically, with the more players
you will have to prepare the greater amount of time. Practically speaking,
the proper number of its players can be 3, 4, 5, or 6. Each player is
supposed to bring his/her musical instruments, some objects which makes
sound, etc.
2 Useless paper etc. and coloured pens/pencils etc.
In order to do Shogi Composition you have to prepare paper to write music
down. Of course you don't have to prepare 5-lined-music-paper because in
Shogi Composition each player is allowed to write music down in his/her own
way. You can use drawing paper, useless calendars, useless posters and so
on.
You also have to prepare coloured pens/pencils etc. Each player is supposed
to choose one colour and use always the same colour.
When you complete the composition, the paper will be the artistic picture as
well as music score.
3 The process
At first you have to decide who will start, and which way to
go round
the circle. Then the first player starts to compose his/her part on his/her
own instrument(s). When s/he completes his/her part, s/he writes it down on
the paper in his/her own way with the coloured pen/pencil. Please notate it
in any way as you will remember it later. You may draw a picture how to
play, you may explain by sentences, or whatever. As soon as s/he writes it
down, s/he hands the paper to the next player, starts to play his/her own
composed part and continues it until his/her turn comes around again.
Similarly the next player makes another part which goes well with the first
part, writes it down in his/her own way next to the first part on the paper,
hands the paper to his/her next player, and continues the part until his/her
turn comes around again.
Similarly keep this process. Finally the last player writes his/her own
part, s/he hands the paper to the first player. Then the first player stops
playing and listens to every sound, makes a new part which goes well with
what other players are playing, writes it down on the paper, hands the paper
to the next player, and continue it until his/her turn comes around again.
Similarly continue this process. Each player's notation does not have to be
understandable for everyone. If each player understands his/her own notation
and replays it later, any notation can be welcome.
Each part does not have to be same length. For example after the first
player composes 4-bar-phrase of 4/4 meter, the second player can compose
2-bar-phrase of 7/8 or 10-second-graphic-notated part.
Continue this process without any break until you can not find any space to
write down on the paper. When the paper is full, composition is finished.
Don't stop the process until the paper is full. If you can't help going to
toilet, wait for your turn to compose. During your turn you may go to toilet
quickly. For musical reason having a break during composition is absolutely
bad.
4 Performance
For the performance, at first the first player starts his/her first part and
hands the paper to the next player. Then the next player starts playing
his/her first part and hands the paper to the next player. Similarly keep
the process until everyone plays every part.
Consult and decide how to finish the music before the performance. In order
ti play fluently practise the piece you composed together by Shogi
Composition many times before the performance.
For example it takes 2hours and only 6 minutes for performance.
You may photocopy the paper for each performers.
--
Ian Stonehouse (Studio Manager)
Electronic Music Studio
Music Deptartment, Goldsmiths College
New Cross, London SE14 6NW
tel: +44 (0)20 7919 7643 [direct line+ansafone]
+44 (0)20 7919 7640 [Music Dept office]
fax: +44 (0)20 7919 7644
EMS Homepage : http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/ems/
Personal Homepage: http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/ianstonehouse/
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