KAMIYA BAR, by CARL STONE

KAMIYA BAR

by CARL STONE

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The Tokyo that Roland Barthes called the "Empire of Signs" might just as well be termed the "Empire of Sounds".

Tokyo is a city of intense media bombardment reflected strongly in the soundscape. Like the buildings of the city’s neighborhoods, familiar sounds can disappear seemingly overnight, replaced by entirely new ones as the metropolis goes through phenomenally rapid change. Amplification is everywhere - take away the loudspeaker and it seems that the entire soundscape might collapse.

« KAMIYA BAR was commissioned by Tokyo-FM and was premiered with three performances at Tokyo-FM Hall in June 1992. The challenge of the commission was to create a composition using the "sounds of Tokyo life". To make the piece I relied mostly on many hours of DAT recordings that I made during a 6-month stay in Tokyo made possible by a grant from the Asian Cultural Council. In KAMIYA BAR I have sought to make a piece that weaves a select number of the many Tokyo sounds I have collected, and manipulate them in time via expansion, compression, fragmentation and interleaving techniques. I contrast and compare them, and place them in an overall musical context. It is my theory, and only a theory, that in doing so, the residents of Tokyo can have a new perspective of the wonderful sounds that surround them in their daily life. » (Carl Stone)

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released January 1, 1995

CARL STONE, KEYBOARDS, SAMPLES
« KAMIYA BAR was commissioned by Tokyo-FM and was premiered with three performances at Tokyo-FM Hall in June 1992.

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