Yuji Takahashi / Maki Ishii
Orphika / Kyoso
Denon (Japan) 1980
OW-7843-ND (LP) w/obi.
sleeve : EX-(light dirts.)
media : EX/EX(some slightly noises.)
The work was composed by Yuji Takahashi, a contemporary musician/composer/pianist who studied music theory under Iannis Xenakis and is active worldwide alongside Toshi Ichiyanagi and Toru Takemitsu. Maki Ishii, a composer who studied contemporary music under Josef Rufer, a theorist of twelve-tone music and a pupil of Arnold Schonberg, and who was actively involved in mixing Japanese and Western instruments. This work was recorded in 1970 by the NHK Symphony Orchestra under the conduct of Hiroyuki Iwaki, and features music by Maki Ishii, a composer who was actively involved in mixing Japanese and Western instruments. “Orphika” by Yuji Takahashi was commissioned as the twenty-first piece in the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra series and was composed using a computer-aided logical method. The structure is based on a complex of five elements: a line of sound, a wave of sound, a point of sound, a series of points of sound and a broken line of sound. Commissioned by Maki Ishii for the 1969 Contemporary Music Festival, side B "Sound Layer" explores the expression of a tonal structure in which a variety of sounds permeate the large orchestra.
A: Yuji Takahashi “Orphika”
B: Maki Ishii “Kyoso”