In Akira Nishimura's 'Mirror of Star' and 'Invoker', a low cluster is depressed silently and held with the sostenuto pedal to create an echo effect, giving an aura of reverberation around each note.
Compositional Technique
In Akira Nishimura's 'Flame', the composer often adds the effect of damping a string near the end before playing it on the key, resulting in a rich series of overtones.
Recording & Production
Keitaro Takahashi, one of the composers on this album, also served as the recording engineer, editor for his own tracks, and handled mixing and mastering for the entire album.
Performer Biography
Ivo Delaere, who performs piano four hands with Lukas Huisman, is one of the few pianists worldwide to have mastered both Beethoven's Diabelli Variations and Frederic Rzewski's massive set of 36 variations on ¡El pueblo unido hamas sera vencido!.
Performer Biography
Lukas Huisman, the pianist on this album, specializes in contemporary complex solo piano music and has undertaken a post-doctoral research project focusing on the fusion of Eastern and Western sound worlds in Japanese piano works.
Composer Biography
Keitaro Takahashi, one of the composers, is also a media artist and programmer, and his artistic interests include the morphology of sound textures and mixing various compositional techniques like Heterophony and Micropolyphony.
Composer Biography
Akira Nishimura, one of the composers featured, developed a strong interest in traditional Asian music, religion, aesthetics, and cosmology while studying Western contemporary compositional techniques.
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