ICMC/25/d2/1100 Concert n05/01 Con Anima
Con Anima 9'
- Very #Cool - solo Instrument/Violin with electronics
- 11:13 10 min in
- twang in accompaniment
- really enjoyed this!
- need to hear more from Person/Yisong Piao!
#Composer Person/Yisong Piao
- Piao Yisong is a composer specializing in electro-acoustic and instrumental music based in Seoul, Korea. He is the researcher at the Center for Research in Electro-Acoustic Music and Audio (CREAMA) ,the founder of Huintokki, (an independent music art group).
- His works have been showcased at prestigious events like the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2023，China；ICMC 2024 Korea) in China and Korea, highlighting his innovative approach to integrating real-time computer processing with traditional instruments.
- His individual style and artistic approach have been deeply influenced by Western Baroque, early Classical music, late European music, and American modern music spanning the period 1940-1990. His recent focus is on exploring microtonality and the possibilities of algorithmic approaches in composition.
Benjamin Sung
- #Bio
- Professor of Violin at Uni/Florida/State, violinist Benjamin Sung is also a Faculty Artist and Violin Coordinator of the Brevard Music Center where he acts as Concertmaster of the Brevard Opera Orchestra. An enthusiastic advocate of contemporary music, Sung has recorded the music of composers Steve Rouse and Marc Satterwhite for Centaur Records, has performed and taught for Studio 2021 at Seoul National University, and has worked with many of the greatest composers of this generation, including John Adams, Pierre Boulez, George Crumb, and Helmut Lachenmann. He recently released an album of new American works entitled FluxFlummoxed on Albany Records, a recording hailed by Fanfare Magazine as “a brilliant performance of four superb works” with “impeccable intonation and tone production.” Mr. Sung has an upcoming new solo album featuring works by Sciarrino, Berio, Maderna, and Schnittke.
#Description
- Con Anima is a musical work composed for violin and live electronics. From the perspective of structural design, the piece aims to explore and experiment with the conflicts and instability between rhythm, repetition, musical transformation, and visual illusions. It involves real-time pitch transformation and layering of sound parts based on signals captured by the microphone. The deeper objective is to seamlessly integrate the acoustic and electronic components, making them inseparable and fully unified. While the title Con Anima may at first recall the familiar musical expression marking “with lively energy” in this work it draws more explicitly from the original Italian meaning—”with soul.” This notion is reflected not only in the emotional character of the music but also in the profound interaction between the performer and the responsive electronic system. The piece in the end concludes with a quote from German philosopher Person/Martin Heidegger — “Der Tod ist die Möglichkeit der schlechthinnigen Unmöglichkeit des Daseins.”