DENSHI ONKYO PEOPLE WORKSHOP電子音響ピープル･ワークショップ

Workshop leaders: Taro Yoshihara Masatsune Yoshio Hiromu Takano Saburo Ubukata Takuro Shibayama ■ Capacity: 20 people ■ For ages: 10 to 110 years old ■ Free entry ■ What to bring:（Your headphone or earphone /Something that can make sound） For more info and reservations see: [www.d-o-people.net](http://www.d-o-people.net) What is THE DENSHI ONKYO PEOPLE PROJECT? Electroacoustic music, which began in the middle of the 20th century, refers to all musical expressions composed using electronic technology. This type of music includes concrete music (musique concréte), composed with a montage of pre-recorded sounds, which was established in France in 1948 by Pierre Schaeffer (1910–1995). During this period, analog disks were used to compose concrete musical pieces. Later, in addition to analog disks, magnetic tapes appeared, simplifying the process of composition. Moreover, pieces composed in large studios by a small number of composers were now available to a wider audience. Music could now be composed by anyone, owing to the development of digital sampling technology for sound recording and the fall in the prices of personal computers. It may be difficult for many people to understand and enjoy concrete music, as it has been situated in the context of contemporary, vanguard music established at the beginning of the 20th century. The composition of these musical pieces is often generalized as falling within the fields of techno-music, electronica, and so on, beginning in the mid-1990s. It has not been easy, even today, to bridge the gap between people and electroacoustic music that directs the idea of “new music.” One of the reasons for this may be that experiments in the composition of “new music” have been seen for a long time as being “difficult.” However, the many workshops conducted by us indicate that many people do enjoy composing electroacoustic music. We thus propose a project entitled “THE DENSHI ONKYO PEOPLE PROJECT”—which refers to “electroacoustic people”—for people to share, enjoy, and compose electroacoustic music. Let’s compose musical pieces as yet unimagined, and let all listen to these with us! What are we trying to do? ・Everybody can compose electro-acoustic music by learning just a few simple techniques! ・Electro-acoustic music is not “difficult music.” It’s fun and friendly! ・Let’s compose electro-acoustic music together at the Denshi Onkyo People Workshop! ・You can compose electro-acoustic music in collaboration with professional artists! ・Let’s sell the collaborative compositions on the web! Why are we doing this? ・Buying and listening to music is fun, but composing your own music is even more fun! ・It’s also a bit avant-gard! Who are Denshi Onkyo People? ・Denshi Onkyo People is about the everybody who is taking part with it! ・It doesn’t matter if you are a professional or an amateur. ・Everybody who enjoys electro-acoustic music and anybody who wants to begin composing electro-acoustic music Related Event: DENSHI ONKYO PEOPLE SPECIAL LIVE Sat. Feb. 27, Sun. 28, 2016 time schedule and program will be announced on Dec. 2015 Workshop leaders: Taro Yoshihara  Taro Yoshihara (1968- ) was born in Tokyo. He graduated from Showa University of Music and received his MA from the University of Yamanashi. He learned composition under Tatsuji Toyozumi and Yoshibumi Fujiwara and learned electroacoustic music under Kazuko Narita. He took part in the summer seminar by INA-GRM in 2001. After 2002, he gradually devoted himself to composing electroacoustic pieces using multi-dimensional acoustics with 24 digital channels. His pieces were performed at numerous festivals, concerts, on television, and on radio programs in Japan and France. At the Fuji Acousmatic-Music Festival (FAF), he managed one of the largest acousmoniums in Japan with 53 channels and 70 loudspeakers. He also took part in the development of an original omni-directional loud speaker known as Ion Space with Soken Co., Ltd.; an original tweeter enclosure with Kainotakumi; and an original spatial sound control system known as “NILE” with Tamon Co., Ltd. Currently, he is a member of the Japanese Society for Electronic Music, a steering committee member for the L’atelier de Creation Sonore et Musicale (ACSM) 116, an adviser with the Gallery Nakamura, a director of Space Vision, a member of Speaker Orchestra, and an artistic director at the FAF. He is a lecturer with the Faculty of Education and Human Science and Research and Development Center for Higher Education at the University of Yamanashi. Masatsune Yoshio  Masatsune Yoshio (1972- ) was born in Kobe. He is a composer and Media Master No. 75. His specialty is the composition of fine art pieces using computers and the compositions are based on the creation of and research regarding algorithmic compositions, acoustic synthesizing, live electronics, and expression with information technologies. He graduated from Showa University of Music and Art and the Media Laboratory in Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS). He studied these viewpoints under Masahiro Miwa. In 2006, he also learned the theory of composition and its interpretation with the Acousmonium by Denis Dufour at the summer seminar of MOTUS. His electroacoustic pieces were performed within and outside of Japan at the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), the Contemporary Computer Music Concert (CCMC), the FAF, the Musicacoustica-Beijin Festival Futura, etc. He is an associate professor at Showa University of Music and a member of the Japan Foundation of Composers (JFC), the Japan Society for Sonic Arts (JSSA), the Japanese Association for the Study of Musical Improvisation (JASMIM), the Special Interest Group on Music and Computers with the Information Processing Society of Japan (JPS), and a trustee for the Japanese Society for Electronic Music (JSEM). Hiromu Takano  Hiromu Takano (1986- ) was born in Yamanashi. He studied composition under Yoshibumi Fujiwara and electroacoustic music under Taro Yoshihara. He was a finalist at the CCMC 2007 and 2011 and at the 2nd International Composer’s Competition for Songs in Tokyo in 2011. In his first live concert entitled “HIromu Takano Hyper Solo Live,” he featured only his electroacoustic pieces, which was the last concert in the live concert series organized by Taro Yoshihara at Café Deux (Yamanashi) in March 2012. During this concert, he performed his pieces solo with an acousmonium. He led acousmonium performances for the electroacoustic pieces “Stop! L’Horizon” composed by Christian Zanesi and “Des stéles” composed by Vincent Laubeuf at the CCMC 2014. In the past of few years, his interests extended to include multiple endeavors, such as serving as a technical adviser and programmer for the Tamon Corporation for a spatial sound diffusion system by human gesture known as ‘NILE,’ which was presented at the FAF 2014. He was also a composer and sound designer for smart phone applications, movie arts, and sound alerts for various products. Saburo Ubukata  Saburo Ubukata (1983- ) is a musician and an activist who grapples with sounds from the dual aspects of music and audio, which are equal in recording and playback. His endeavors are varied and include the composition of electroacoustic music, recording engineering, producing CD or audio pieces with high-resolution digital quality, sound installation with original speakers that he developed, conducting workshops on recording technologies, writing reports and articles reviewing audio devices for audio magazines, and writing a book about his recording techniques and knowledge. These diverse endeavors allow him to reject being cast in one particular field regarding the trials and experiments that define recording and playback as important components of musical expression. Takuro Shibayama  Takuro Shibayama (1971- ) was born in Tokyo. He received his MA from the Tokyo College of Music in 1997 and his PhD from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2010. He was deeply fascinated by S. Reich in the late 1980s and M. Feldman in the early 1990s. Through these experiences he has been particular about his monotonous and texture-like style that refuses the development of time progression. He was a finalist at the Music Competition of Japan in 1993, for the Akiyoshidai International Composition Prize in 1994, and the Bourges (IMEB) in 2007. His pieces were programmed to Multiphonie, hosted by INA-GRM in 2013, ICMC in 2012, 2014, and 2015 and International Society of Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) in 2015 respectively. His pursuits are not only in the field of music. He also collaborates with artists such as Hisako Inoue, dancers, architects, and local societies in Saitama Prefecture in Japan as a committee member for the Saitama Muse Forum (SMF). Since 2008, he has directed live electroacoustic music concerts and hosted symposiums and workshops for the composition of electroacoustic music with people of all ages and amateurs. He currently teaches courses in computer music and music theory as an associate professor for the Department of Information System Design in the Graduate Course of Informatics at Tokyo Denki University and is a part time lecturer at the International Christian University and at the Joshibi University of Art and Design.。