Keiichiro Shibuya＋evala
“for maria installation version”
new sound installation
commissioned by YCAM

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Date: 2009.10.01(thu)–2010.01.31(sun)
Time: 10:00-20:00
Closed: Tuesday (the next days if it falls on a holiday) and December 29, 2009 – January 3, 2010
* Please note that this exhibition will be temporarily closed between October 26 (mon) and November 6 (fri).
Venue :Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media[YCAM], Patios
7-7 Nakazono-cho Yamaguchi-city 7530075 JAPAN
Admission: Free

New work “for maria installation version”

A sound space filled with processed,
decomposed and reconfigured piano sounds

This sound installation piece is based on data taken from the latest piano solo album “ATAK015 for maria”, composed and performed by musician Keiichiro Shibuya. Sound data of all pieces included in the CD were repeatedly processed, decomposed and reconfigured with a computer program, introducing new layers in order to redefine the relationships between the single tracks, and ultimately create a body of sound that is completely different from the CDʼs contents.
Two versions of the work are installed in two of the YCAMʼs Patios, known for their unique “wall of sound” effect, using 5.1/5.1+2 channel speakers with a distinctive sound embedded in the floor. In response to the Patiosʼ different architecture and spatial acoustics, the respective installations work with differently programmed sound. The programming by Shibuya himself together with sound artist evala was designed to create a sense of three-dimensional movement within a constantly transforming sound space and shifting sonic layers.
Fragments of a high-quality DSD recording (128 times higher resolution compared to a conventional CD) of Shibuyaʼs piano performance were processed, decomposed and layered with a special computer program, with the aim to establish a sonic environment in which sound seems to be traveling three-dimensionally. As the resolution of the original sound recording is on a totally different level from commonly used field recording or computer music data, the work was artfully conceived as an endless process of continuous transformation of sound that pervades the space as organically as smoke. Employing computer programs to fully explore the possibilities of spatial expansion, the sound processing is so complex and diverse that it is hard to believe that it is all based on the same data, presenting the visitor with music and sound that seems absolutely new.
Listening to the sound as it moves around inside the Patios gives the visitor an acoustic experience of a soundscape that is perfectly unique to this exhibition.

CREDIT

Organizer: Yamaguchi City Foundation for Cultural Promorion
Support: Yamaguchi City, Yamaguchi City Board of Education
Cooperation: ATAK
Technical Support: YCAM InterLab
Produced by Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM]