Rei Munakata (1976 - )
Conductor/Composer
 
   
   

 

 
     
 
 
Auroral Sculpture of the Evening
 
Instrumentation:
Grand Piano with 3 pedals - use of sostenuto pedal and silent keys to produce harmonics
 
Durata: 11'
 
Program Notes:
The Evening is Rei Munakata’s favorite time of the day:  Mysterious, distant, and melancholic in character, and there is a sense of searching, uncertainty, and falling deep inside of the self-rotating Aurora.  The Sculpture made by the Evening would be self-evolving, pure, and transparent – just like the sound of piano!  There is so much hidden behind a piano tone: silent keys, harmonics, sostenuto pedal, echoes, and absence.  The Evening  hammers away…
 
Performances:
December 10th 2005 Fylkingen Stockholm, Sweden
Anna Christensson
 
January 18th 2007 Kulturhuset Ytterjärna, Sweden
Anna Christensson
 
January 20th 2007 Konserthuset Stockholm, Sweden
Anna Christensson
 
March 20th 2009 Artisten Göteborg, Sweden
Jonas Olsson
 
May 24th 2009 Biskorpsgårdens Kyrka Göteborg, Sweden
Jonas Olsson
 
April 24th 2010 2D2N International festival of Modern Art Odessa, Ukraine
Jonas Olsson