ビートの網目 (2024)
for piano and electronics
Duration: 7min.
commissioned by General Incorporated Association Monten
premiered by Maya Kawasaki
created in Tokyo, Aug.7.2024
This piece is a music consisting of piano and electronic sounds. The piano keeps a steady beat with minor triad arpeggios, while the electronic sounds beat a minimalistic Four-on-the-floor rhythmic pattern different from the tempo of the piano. These “regular beats” are the element that most music circulating commercially today have. In this piece, these two beats are unpredictably and indeterminately overlapped. By tracing such weaving mesh of overlaps, I tried to touch the texture of overcrowding, excess, overlap, and coexistence in an urban environment.
Akiko Yamane
「ビートの網目」はピアノと電子音から成る楽曲。ピアノは短三和音のアルペジオで一定のビートを刻み、電子音はミニマルな四つ打ちのリズムパターンを異なるテンポで刻む。「一定の拍感」は今現在商業的にも循環流通する殆どの音楽が有する要素であり、このような二つのビートを不確定に重ねる。編み込まれる重なりの網目をなぞり、都市環境の過密・過剰・重なり・共存の肌理のようなものに触れようとした。
山根明季子