"Duck, Duck, Telephone, Trumpet: Improvisation Workshop"
Location: Beirut Art Center (Beirut, Lebanon)
Date: July 7-8, 2016
Recordings of two of the improvised pieces discussed, presented, and performed during the workshop. Both pieces are composed by Japanese improvising musician Shiba Tetsu. The pieces performed are "HAND PIECE (WITH MEMORY FUNCTION)" 「振り下ろし(メモリー機能付き)」and "LET'S PLAY WHAT WE CAN IN SINGLE HAND (ORCHESTRATION ETUDE)" 「片手で出来ることをしよう」. Both pieces were composed and first performed in 2005. In the accompanied recordings, there were eight performers and the instrumentation includes: melodica, oud, flute, various percussion instruments, two acoustic guitars, cello, duduk, various voices, foot stomping, unvoiced wind mouthpieces for wind instruments, iPad running "Borderlands Synthesis" App, and one Teenage Engineering OP-1.
About SHIBA TETSU and the GAME PIECES:
Shiba Tetsu is an improvising musician. After the first performance of John Zorn's so-called game piece cobra around 1992, voice peformer Makigami Kouichi organized Cobra tokyo Operation starting in 1993 in La MAMA, Sibuya, Tokyo. Inspired by participation in this, Shiba Tetsu conducted numerous workshops in the following years, each with five participants. In these workshops, players created their own game pieces and played them. In 2005, Shiba Tetsu estimated the number of workshops held to be between 20 and 30. (source: http://intuitivemusic.dk/iima/sht.htm)
SPECIAL THANKS to Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen for providing his support and knowledge in the process of preparing for the workshop. Please visit Carl Bergstrom-Nielsen's website on Intuitive Music for further information: http://intuitivemusic.dk/intuitive/index.htm