Aki Kitajima

This piece was premiered at the 2019 Vienna festival "Sounds Around Me", a collection of contemporary and experimental music. At the time of the premiere, 48 loudspeakers were used, and electronics containing various sounds (flapping wings, chirping, etc.) represented by astral birds were freely controlled to match the live performance of the cello, diffusing and dissipating the sounds throughout the venue. The cello and electronics reflected each other's songs, and the piece progressed as if they were having a conversation. This was a challenge to create a new form of music, in which electronics were considered as acoustic sculptures with a time axis, and birds with no substance were flown into the venue. This is the first performance in Japan for an audience. (Mukai)

¥500

Cellist Aki Kitajima, who studied baroque and contemporary music in Germany, has been mainly performing in Japan and Europe. She performs baroque music on the baroque cello and modern and contemporary music on the modern cello. From baroque music, she picked up the J.S.Bach's Suite for Unaccompanied Cello No.3 selection. From contemporary music, there will be a "Virtual Musician's Residence " and a "Virtual Musician's Residence Academy", the second part of the Virtual Musicians Residence project, these were started as a project by composer Yukiko Watanabe under COVID-19 pandemic circumstances and these music was composed by three composers. The purpose of this online project is for young composers’ education. The composers will work together with professional performers to create a new work while interacting and learning from each other for a certain period as a virtual creative residency to create a new work. The final piece will be uploaded on YouTube and shared on SNS from August 1st to September 30th. URL: https://note.com/yukikocomposer/n/n6962438885f3 From modern music, third movement of the Suite for Unaccompanied Cello composed by Gaspar Casado that is popular masterpiece for solo cello. In conversation with Yukiko Watanabe, this ambitious program also includes a comparison of the playing of each cello and the bow in an ambitious program that cuts deep into the appeal of the cello.

¥1,000