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Aletheia, Unconcealment of Being

Aletheia, Unconcealment of Being (1987), by Yasunao Tone for flute, voice control solenoid system and amplified grand piano performed by Barbara Held at the Barcelona Grec Festival ’87

The score consists of dance notations from 8th century China and analytical charts of the dance notations. The interpretation of the flutist is based on the meanings and phonetic values of the Chinese characters used in the score, numbers in the charts, and manipulation of the voice control solenoids by parameter of the flute’s amplitude. The solenoid system was first used for “Piano for Taoists”, with an ancient text, tales of Taoist hermits and magic, in English translation and original Chinese. The voice of the reader triggers electromagnetic hammers on the piano strings so that the piano seems to be played by a ghost. Yasunao Tone

See text by Godfre Lueng:
Trio for a Flute Player: Not Translation, but Conversion Godfre Lueng

Breathing and its Transformations – Tone, Lucier, Kuivila

BREATHING AND ITS TRANSFORMATIONS
by BARBARA HELD
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Ruth Gant Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center
St. Cloud State University
Introduction by GODFRE LEUNG
SCSU Assistant Professor of Art History

BREATHING AND ITS TRANSFORMATIONS is a series of performances sponsored by the music department at Wesleyan University, St. Cloud University and University of California Santa Barbara. In connection with an interview by Alexandra Alisauskas and Godfre Leung in the Third Rail Quarterly, the program, with an introduction by Godfre Leung, presented new realisations of pieces created some years ago by Yasunao Tone, Alvin Lucier, Ron Kuivila and Clarence Barlow, with a newly created digital version of “Lyrictron” programmed by Wolfgang Gil.

Links to a recorded version of the Tone and Lucier pieces from Upper Air Observation, a CD published by Lovely Music, Ltd. can be found on my Listen Blog, and a concert fragment of Ron Kuivila’s “Electric Wind” on the Third Rail website.

Self-Portrait, Alvin Lucier
Trio for a Flute Player, Yasunao Tone
Lyrictron, Yasunao Tone

 

 

The Third Rail Quarterly, Issue 10
Barbara Held interviewed by Interviewed by Alexandra Alisauskas and Godfre Leung

 

Barbara Held