{"id":5176,"date":"2013-02-17T14:31:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T14:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=5176"},"modified":"2024-04-25T14:50:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T14:50:27","slug":"akira-nishimura-bird-heterophony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/akira-nishimura-bird-heterophony\/","title":{"rendered":"Akira Nishimura:  Bird Heterophony"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>Two weeks ago, the BBC Symphony Orchestra held a series of concerts at the Barbican and at LSO St Luke&#8217;s of new and 20th-century music from Japan.&nbsp; Parts of these concerts were rebroadcast on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b01qdy5x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC Radio 3<\/a>.&nbsp; A highlight was a work called <em>Bird Heterophony<\/em> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zen-on.co.jp\/world\/composers_nishimura\/?mode=BiographyEN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Akira Nishimura<\/a>, who teaches at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tokyo-ondai.ac.jp\/en\/faculty.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tokyo College of Music<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>This music was loud, forceful and exciting, and very impressive.&nbsp; It reminded me of those great early works of Iannis Xenakis, <em>Metastaseis<\/em> and <em>Pithoprakta<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Much as I like the impressionism of <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2010\/03\/mr-sculthorpe-please-call-your-office\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Toru Takemitsu<\/a> (whose <em>November Steps<\/em> was also performed), it is nice to hear modern Japanese music from a vastly different sound world.&nbsp;&nbsp; It is a pity though about the title: &nbsp;how much better the music could be appreciated if Nishimura had left&nbsp;the title abstract, rather than steering our mental imagery with a representational title.<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>The one recording seems to be unavailable, at least in the West.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <em>Messages for the 21st Century Volume 1<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp; Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, under Hiroyuki Iwaki.&nbsp;&nbsp; Deutsche Grammophon,&nbsp; POGC-1719,&nbsp;1993.<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile&nbsp;a clip of the performance is currently still available from the BBC Radio 3 website for the program, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b01qdy5x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hear and Now<\/a>, 2 February 2013 edition.<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago, the BBC Symphony Orchestra held a series of concerts at the Barbican and at LSO St Luke&#8217;s of new and 20th-century music from Japan.&nbsp; Parts of these concerts were rebroadcast on BBC Radio 3.&nbsp; A highlight was a work called Bird Heterophony by Akira Nishimura, who teaches at the Tokyo College of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","p1","y2013","m02","d17","h14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5176"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12530,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176\/revisions\/12530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}