For ‘Seconds of fear’, the 10 minutes opera that I composed for the Opera Forward Festival I decided to use tape and live electronics. The line up was: 2 Sopranos, Trumpet, Trombone, Bass trombone, Electronics & Choir The story is about a Human who needs to decide if to follow it’s Dark side, or the… Continue reading 3rd I.C. Intervention

PvB Question: in your research question there is a relation between narration and the use of electronics. Is the use of electronics  truly essential for the things/subjects you want to narrate? NK: Yes. Depending on the piece, the role and the degree of importance of the electronics will be different. How is that in the piece of Bruynel?… Continue reading 3rd Feedback Session

In order to create a new tape for solo voice and tape for my next piece, I made the choice of checking the firsts narrative electronic pieces in order to understand the roots of this field. What where the tools of the composers within their electronic limitations.   Serene for flute and soundtracks, Ton Bruynèl, summer 1978, Utrecht. The… Continue reading 3rd I.C. Data Collection

Artistic Research Proposal Name: Neus Kaori Fornós Ohnuma Main subject: Jazz Composition Main subject teacher: Paul van Brugge AR domain: Composition AR coach: Hans Koolmees Date of submission: 23th of August 2016 Subject: Use of electronics in narrative music Title: Developing musical tools by analysing pieces of the extended music literature of composers who used electronics such as tape , devices or live electronics. Keywords:… Continue reading Artistic Research Proposal 02

Duke Ellingtong: I like his approach of getting out the best of his musicians. By knowing them he knew the possibilities of the musicians and their strengths. He gave space for improvisation to his musicians, something that I would like also to give in some pieces. I also liked the connection with the traditional Jazz… Continue reading Some inspirations

Reference Recording: The piece of TITANS was performed on the 20th of April in Codarts, Kruisplein. An extract of the piece can be found here: Assess & Reflect: The first feedbacks that I would like to share are the ones from the main players, due they worked with the piece. Both of them agreed in… Continue reading 3rd I.C. Reference Recording – Reflect & Assess

OUTCOME for TITANS, duo of Double Bass & Bass guitar: I made a connection between French impressionistic style (20’s) and Jazz Fusion (late 60’s) for the use of harmony. Both styles share the approach of non functional harmony, by using parallel chords, sustain chords, -7th chords, blues related harmonies/melodies/rhythms/concepts. On the late 60’s  and 70’s… Continue reading 2nd I.C. Intervention

Darius Milhaud – la creation du monde Premier: 25 October 1923 Blase Cendrars (libreto): themes of the creation from African folklore mythology. Fernand Léger (design scenario and costumes) Jean Börlin (Choreographer) DATA COLLECTION GENERAL INFORMATION 1-wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_création_du_monde 2-article from San Francisco Symphony https://www.sfsymphony.org/Watch-Listen-Learn/Read-Program-Notes/Program-Notes/MILHAUD-La-Creation-du-monde,-Opus-81.aspx 3-musicologie.org http://www.musicologie.org/Biographies/m/milhaud_darius.html 4-Le Deblocnot http://ledeblocnot.blogspot.nl/2012/06/la-creation-du-monde-lors-dun-buf-sur.html general overview of the life of Milhaud… Continue reading 2nd I.C. Data Collection – La Creation

In order to learn about all the possibilities of both instruments I asked to bass players and bass guitar players to give me some Solo repertoire to listen at. Due doesn’t exist so much repertoire focus on different techniques I also asked to cello players to give me some references. What I was looking for… Continue reading 2nd I.C. Data Collection – Instruments

After the first feedback meeting some questions erased. What is my definition of Narrative music? What is Jazz language related music? What makes a composer personal? What I like or dislike from my music? About Narrative Music: In general, music can be divided in three groups: -Narrative -Meditative -Functional In overall words, meditative music is the one that… Continue reading Outcome Feedback 1st AR meeting