Vacuum String Quartet
Gleb Khokhlov, violin 
Vyacheslav Chirkunov, violin 
Emil Salaridze, viola 
Yulia Migunova, cello
Featured in reMusik.org festival 2022
At Dom Radio, St. Petersburg, on June 2, 2022

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“There was once a scorpion who ate other insects, but perished in a well after escaping a weasel; the scorpion then regretted and its body burst into a bright flame that still burns in the night sky for the happiness of life,” as Giovanni described the flame of scorpion in Japanese fantasy novel Night on the Galactic Railroad. This composition, an epitaph to the scorpion in the night sky, explores the idea of “burn” by experimenting with different gestures and textures. It was composed in the year 2020, and was revised in 2022.
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「そしたらいつかサソリはじぶんのからだがまっ赤なうつくしい火になって燃えてよるのやみを照らしているのを見たって。いまでも燃えてるってお父さん仰っしゃったわ。ほんとうにあの火それだわ。」
宮沢賢治「銀河鉄道の夜」より

...a bright epitaph in the galaxy festival... (2020, rev.2022) for string quartet

ずっと走っていたい
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走っている！！

マスタリング　うえだなおふみ

成長点の分裂/時間軸の帯化

#experimentalpop

帯化

Recording by Pablo Rubino (violin) and Diana Gasparini (viola), June, 2023 in Buenos Aires.

Score purchase: https://www.babelscores.com/catalogs/instrumental/5442-not-here-not-there-somewherei-ii

This piece is a study of human relationships. Genders and types are irrelevant. In a relationship, each individual is both dependent and independent. The conflict and struggles between us bring us closer while generating confusion. Who am I, who are you, what am I to you and what are you to me? By trying to find the self compared to others, we are also losing the self to the others.

Parallel to the physical space, we also live in an immense psychological space inside of our minds. Since we often face difficulties locating ourselves in this invisible world, we feel uncomfortable. We don’t like to lose the control of our positions, so we try to offer, to lie, to love, to harm, to kiss, and to kill. What do we get in the end?

Maybe human beings are a kind of creature that can only be either absolutely lonely or extremely complicated.

Cover image © Alice Farion

not here... not there... somewhere... II 花犯 II (2020) for violin and viola

東方アレンジ2曲目です。
原曲:『クレイジーバックダンサーズ』

スウィンギングバックダンサーズ

Live recording by Nora Popescu and Otto Popescu, March 13th, 2024 in Montreal, Canada.

Distinguished prize of 2021 Luba Zuk Composition Prize, Canada.

Score purchase: https://www.babelscores.com/catalogs/instrumental/6989-empty-harbour-reddish-sea

Cover picture © Neon Genesis Evangelion

Empty Harbour Reddish Sea 空港，赤海 (2021) for two pianos

Live recording by Ding Zhang (saxophone), Ao Peng (viola), and Siyuan Li (piano), April 11, 2024, in Shenzhen, China.

Recording Engineer: Xikun Guo

Score Purchase: https://www.babelscores.com/catalogs/instrumental/9149-playground9149

Cover photo © Sopor Aeternus

Playground 樂園 (2024) for soprano saxophone, viola, and piano

Composer, musicologist and video game lover basing in Tokyo
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...a bright epitaph in the galaxy festival... (2020, rev.2022) for string quartet

Daiwei Lu 魯戴維

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