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005年10月に新宿ピットインで行われた高橋悠治(piano,computer,voice)、渋谷慶一郎(keyboard,computer)、maria(computer)によるコンサート"dub lilac"を96khz,32bitの高音質で完全収録、渋谷慶一郎が精緻なエディットを施して20の断片を再構成することによって完成した究極のライブ盤です。高橋悠治の名曲「さまよう風の痛み」(1981)、ヨーゼフ・ハウアー(1883〜1959)のピアノ曲、渋谷のprophet-5によるシェーンベルグ、ケージの断片などを含む、演奏と作曲、即興とテクノロジーの交差する極めて高密度な傑作となっています。全20曲55分58秒。
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「内にこもったひびきをとりだすためのあやしげなふるい木の箱」(*)としてのピアノ。
そして、そこにひそんでいるひびきを内なる手順によって、もうひとつのひびきとしてとりだす、あやしげな小箱としてのコンピュータ。

そこは、自由に奏でられる音に満ちていた。
奏でられた「音楽」からふたたび「ひびき」をとりだすように。
それは、まるで音をひとつひとつ、気ままに箱の中からとりだすようであり、音は奏でられると同時に複数の多様な変化をへて、空間に放たれる。
ときおり、ある楽曲が断片的に演奏されるが、それは、くだけながら、やがて、もうひとつのひびきへとすがたを変え、こだましながら虚空へと消え入る。
そこには、より緩やかで自由な、音の発生の場がある。
これは、あやしげな箱をめぐる、3人の音への試行を記録したものである。

*ピアニストのためのコロナ/武満徹《高橋悠治/武満徹の芸術》ミニアチュール第3集 高橋悠治による解説より

畠中実（NTTインターコミュニケーションセンター[ICC]学芸員）
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This disc is of the concert "dub lilac" performed by Yuji Takahashi (piano, computer, voice), Keiichiro Shibuya (keyboard, computer) and maria (computer) took place at PITINN in Tokyo in October 2005. This disc is the one of their best works in that they try to cross between the compositional fine performance and more improvisational work using computer technology.
As compositional, Takahashi's masterpiece, The Pain of the Wandering Wind (1981), Joseph Hauer's pieces by Takahashi on piano, and Schoenberg and Cage by Shibuya on prophet 5. As technological, the session was recorded in high quality, 96khz, 32bit.
Shibuya later elaborated on sound quality and recomposed 20 tracks (55min58sec).

A piano as "An old, questionable wooden box that pulls out the sound closed inside."* And a computer as a questionable small box that pulls out another sound.

There was filled with the freely played sound.
And the played music regains the sound. It is the music as if a hand pulled the sound out of the box and the sound transformed into the sky.
Sometimes, some pieces of music are played, but they crash and turn into another sound. The echo vanishes into an empty sky.
There is a freedom of play.
This is a record of their sound trial over the questionable box.

*commentary by Yuji TAkahashi on "Art of Yuji Takahashi and Toru Takemitsu, Miniature III, Corona for Pianist(s) /Toru Takemitsu" Minoru Hatanaka

curator of NTT Inter Communication Center (ICC)

Keiichiro Shibuya and Maria, the two founders of the Atak label, have a disc of improvised music with Yuji Takahashi, who plays piano, computer and voice.
Takahashi is already an older gentleman, who released his electronic work (1963 - present) on Atak before (see Vital Weekly 489).
Here the three team up, and Shibuya plays on his prophet 5 synthesizer Arnold Schoenberg and John Cage, to which Takahashi adds improvisations on his piano and computer and plays works by himself and Joseph Hauer, and Maria also computer, and this is certainly one of the more stranger releases I encountered. When I started playing it, I took it out of the machine, to check if I was playing the right disc.
It's a very strange marriage of classical music, electronic, analogue sounds and computerized bleeps - the latter coming from the world clicks and cuts (remember: Atak also brought Stillupsteypa and Goem for instance).
Somehow I can imagine that reading this will raise an eyebrow: does this work? And yes, oddly enough it does work.
Perhaps twenty tracks, clocking in at almost fifty six minutes is a bit long, but there is enough good stuff to be found here. Very odd mixture indeed.
Frans de Waard

release date : 25 Jan 2006