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Improv in the house of geiko (Kyoto)

from Sounds from Japan by Cities and Memory

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"The sound of the Geiko singing is very beautiful, but also quite atonal to my untrained western ears, and certainly very unusual - a quality I wanted to bring out in the reimagined sound. I entered the Geikos' singing into an audio-to-MIDI converter, using the MIDI data from their voices to control various instruments. In this way, I created my own experimental improvisational group, who I imagined our audience had come to see. There's a drummer, two synth players, a violinist and a pianist - and it's this latter player, world-famous, whom everyone has come to see. Every time his hands descend onto the piano keyboard to chop out some improvised chords as the drummer fits in around him, the crowd applauds to show their appreciation. The group builds to a climax, eventually all playing at once to bring the piece to a close amid rapturous applause."

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from Sounds from Japan, released June 12, 2020

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Cities and Memory is one of the world’s biggest sound projects, a global, collaborative sound art and field recording programme with the aim of remixing the world, one sound at a time. It covers more than 100 countries and territories with 5,000+ sounds and more than 1,000 contributing artists.
Thousands of field recordings, recomposed and reimagined by artists around the world. ... more

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