EXUSIAI (Music for dance), by CARL STONE (USA)

EXUSIAI (Music for dance)

by CARL STONE (USA)

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1.	Solo 1 10:19	buy track
2.	Uncosciousness 07:09	buy track
3.	CARL STONE - Violence 05:00	buy track
4.	Meteors 03:44	buy track
5.	Moon Dance 07:30	buy track
6.	Violence 06:06	buy track
7.	Solo 06:11	buy track
8.	Liquid Body 06:04	buy track
9.	Echoing 05:54	buy track
10.	Bomb 10:13	buy track

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Exusiai is the music that Carl STONE wrote for the Japanese choreographer and performer Akira Kasai.
As Carl STONE writes in the linear notes of the CD, Exusiai, thematically, is a dance about the special kind of life-force that exists in the inorganic matter of the mineral. An example of this life force would be a crystal, which in a way grows inside of a rock-crystal or tourmaline. As a mineral life-force, it contrasts in opposition to the biological life-force such as in plants. An object that is "dead" organically can in fact be alive from the viewpoint of Exusiai.
Structurally, the dance piece Exusiai is 90 minutes in length and consists of 6 ensemble sections alternating with 6 solo sections, danced by Mr..Kasai himself, several of which were silent. For the solo sections, Mr. Kasai and I agreed that ideally there would be a musical continuity throughout, rather simple sounds so that the audience could have the premonition of the continuance of mineral life. In contrast, each of the ensemble sections would have their own unique sound and approach, embodied by their titles.

Exusiai is a dance about the special kind of life-force that exists in the inorganic matter of the mineral. An example of this life force would be a crystal, which in a way grows inside of a rock-crystal or tourmaline. As a mineral life-force, it contrasts in opposition to the biological life-force such as in plants. An object that is "dead" organically can in fact be alive from the viewpoint of Exusiai.

The final result is very organic.

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released January 1, 1999

Commissioned by Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena, San Francisco and premiered August 28 1998.

EXUSIAI - music for dance
Choreography: Akira Kasai
Music: Carl Stone
Special thanks to Takami Craddock, Dan Depp, John Eichenseer, Brechin
Flournoy, Zandra Frame, Mark Freeman, Mario Garcia Durham, Dennis O'Leary,
Eric Theise, Tom Welsh, Kenn White.

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Album Coordination Renzo Pognant

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