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TITLE: petsound
NOTES: "Petsounds" exist in Tokyo in large numbers. These are the "beep" sounds pronounced by the machines across Tokyo: often very "cheep" (cheap) electronic sounds, for example, an ATM, an elevator, a ticket machine, etc. These are also the sounds of communication... most residents of Tokyo own cellular phones, and in order to give them a unique voice in a busy city, it is customary to reassign the default ring tone of the cellular phone to the owner's favourite sound. Japanese people like a small product and part of the enjoyment they receive from its use comes through this customization. I collected petsounds in Tokyo city and, with a "cheep" (cheap) computer composed a soundscape structured according to the speed of the city's change.
I collected the sound materials using a cheap cassette tape recorder, and stored them to hard-disk where I treated them with ProTools. I composed the algorithmic composition programs (patches) with MAX/MSP to manipulate the audio. Next I used ProTools for capturing the final composition to hard-disk for mastering to CD.
For performance I use MAX/MSP. Additionally, I use a small Japanese computer game "WonderSwan" (BANDAI), for expressing the "petsounds". I wrote the original application for playback of my composition in the C programming language.
ABOUT: Atsushi Yamaji was born in 1968 in Japan. He graduated from Tokyo University of Fine Arts & Music with B.A. and M.A. degrees. Since then he has won numerous international prizes for composition including: Japan Music Competition for composition, honorary mention in Theatrical Art Award under the direction of the Agency for Cultural Affairs in Japan, Asian Music Festival (Japan), Asian Composers League (twice: Korea & China), Valentino Bucci International Composers Competition (Italy), Britten on the Bay Award (USA), Vienna Modern Masters Award (Austria), Banff Festival (Canada)... etc.
Atsushi Yamaji has also worked as a music producer for pop-music in Japan, film soundtracks, commercial music and computer game music. He has been a researcher at the Center for Computer Research in Music Acoustics at Stanford University (1996-1997), a fellow at the International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences, Japan (1998-1999), and a computer programmer with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Toshio Iwai... and more. He now teaches at Tama Art University, Kyoto-Seika University and Osaka Electro-Communication University, Japan.
Recent exhibitions: "Digital Bauhaus", NTT-ICC, Tokyo 1999, "MA", Geidai Museum, Tokyo 2000, "Motion Graphics 2000", EDGE, Tokyo 2000
This work was made through the opinion exchange with Atelier Bow-Wow who is a young, talented architect unit in Japan. Another version of this work will be exhibited at a construction system exhibition called "MUTATIONS" this autumn in Tokyo.
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