UMBC Fine Arts Building
9 AM - Alchemy of Brass: Spirituality and Wind Music in Japan - David Hebert, Assistant Professor, Boston University
9:35 - Structural Integration of Television Phenomena in Joji Yuasa's Observations on Weather Forecasts - Colin Holter, University of Illinois
10:10 - Time Song II: Howling through Time - Stacey Fraser, Assistant Professor, Northern State University, South Dakota
10:45 - Japanese Composers in the Multicultural U.K. : Identity Tactics and Self-Exoticism - Yumi Hara Cawkwell, Lecturer, University of East London, UK
11:20 - Ma (sense of time and space) as Compositional Tool - Airi Yoshioka, Assistant Professor, UMBC
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1:40 - Flute Works of Toshio Hosokawa - Antares Boyle, Sydney Conservatorium, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
2:25 - Composing for Shakuhachi and 21-String Koto - Marty Regan, U. of Hawaii , Manoa
3:00 - Style and Politics in Kosaku Yamada's Folksong Arrangements 1917-1950" - David Pacun, Assistant Professor, Ithaca College
3:35 - A Japanese Zero-Hour? Postwar Music and the Re-Making of the Past - Fuyuko Fukunaka, Lecturer, Keio U. , Tokyo, JAPAN
4:25-4:55 RECITAL Retsuzan Tanabe (shakuhachi)
5:10-6:20 CONCERT computer music from Japan
Wave Mechanics II - Karen Tanaka (Airi Yoshioka violin)
Wandering Finger - Daichi Ando
Figure in Movement - Shintaro Imai
Labyrinth - Takayuki Rai
Night Ascends from the Ear like a Butterfly - Hideko Kawamoto
Die Passion der Matthaus-Passion - Hiroyuki Yamamoto
Shizuku no Suzushi - Naotoshi Osaka
RoboticMusic (VIDEO) - Suguru Goto
Sensors/Sonics/ Sig hts (VIDEO) - Atau Tanaka
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9 AM - Zenshin kore mimi nari : To be all ears - Yann Leblanc, Lumiere Lyon 2 University, FRANCE
9:35 - Modes of Listening in Tokyo 's Avant-Garde Music Community - Lorraine Plourde, Columbia University, NY
10:10 - Ring My Bell : Cell Phones and the Japanese Music Market - Noriko Manabe, CUNY Graduate Center, NY
10:45 - Forte's Set Complex, My Superset/Subset Network: A Set-Theoretical Excursion into Takemitsu's Japanese Garden - Hideaki Onishi, Assistant Professor, National University of SINGAPORE
11:20 - Music in the Bathtub: Reading Takemitsu's Music Through Western Criticism" - Peter Burt, The Open University, Vienna, AUSTRIA
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1:15 - Beyond Tradition: Composer Toru Takemitsu and the Sound of sawari - Mitsuko Ono, Kunitachi College of Music, Tokyo, JAPAN
Lectures by guest composers
1:50 Hiroyuki Yamamoto - The Grey Area of Music and Hearing
2:35 Shirotomo Aizawa - Hogaku and Western Music Through the Shakuhachi
3:20 Hiroyuki Itoh - Swaying Time, Trembling Time
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4:15 - Transitions in the Piano Music of Keiko Fujiie - Margaret Lucia, Associate Professor, Shippensburg University, PA
4:50 - A Comparison of the works for Flute, Viola, and Harp by Toru Takemitsu and Claude Debussy - Shuri Okajima, University of Arizona
5:25 - Kongoseki\Kongoseki Variations - John Welsh, University of Maryland, College Park
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Itoh - Salamander [1995, 2005] (solo flute)
Itoh Out of a Blaze of Light [2006] (clarinet, piano) [click here to listen to mp3 excerpt]
Yamamoto The Wedge is Struck, the Fog Remains [2006] (clarinet, piano) [click here to listen to mp3 excerpt]
Yamamoto Saxophone The Relay [1999] (alto saxophone solo)
Yamamoto Matsumorphosis [2001] (violin solo)
Aizawa Time of Time [2007] (clarinet, percussion) - [click here to listen to mp3 excerpt]
Aizawa Deposition [2007] (shakuhachi, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion) - [click here to listen to mp3 excerpt]
c.9:15 PM - Panel Discussion with guest composers (immediately following the concert)