Written in 1963 for up to 15 peformers plus a conductor who may also make sound, Japanese composer and Fluxus artist Toshi Ichiyanagi's score has 16 pages marked with combinations of lines, dots and letters indicating duration, number of events, and moments of restraint, each player using a different page, with certain options of switching pages with another player during performance.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2018 Country: Germany Packaging: Cardstock 3 page foldover Recorded at Jack Straw Productions in Seattle, Washington, on November 28th, 2010, by Doug haire.
"Toshi Ichiyanagi is a Japanese composer who was associated with John Cage and Fluxus in the 1960's. "Sapporo" was composed in 1963 for any number of performers up to 15 plus a conductor who may also make sound. There are 16 pages in the score marked with combinations of lines, dots and letters. Each player uses a dif ferent of page of the score. The notation is primarily concerned with the duration and number of events, though some pages include letters indicating when a performer should listen to or watch another performer or the conductor. At these times, the performer may choose to go to the part of their page which are observing another performer do. If that notation does not appear on their page, they have the option of switching pages with another player."
"why is it, that this piece is so mysteriously fascinating?
why is it so different from everything else i know and yet so intimately familiar? why is it so obvious, that this music is "good for us"?
what is it, that makes us experience glissandi so differently in this piece, as if our whole environment is tilting and we have to readjust our orientation, as if we are not just observing the shift, but are part of kind of non-directional dissolution, some kind of sonic vertigo, pleasantly, though, giving relief rather than anxiety?
what is it, that makes the atmosphere of this piece so promising, so truly generous, peaceful and trustingly attentive?
how does it "not make the air it is in any heavier than it already was"?