Name: Tamuke2013_with_solo.mp3 (Free DL) by Hélène Seiyu Shakuhachi
Duration: 7 min 42 s
Description: Tamuke new version. Practice recording on 1.8

Hélène Seiyu, shakuhachi 2.4 & composition.
Composed during the Covid-19 pandemic, this piece is inspired by the "Robuki wave across the planet": blowing RO together for unity, solidarity and compassion for the suffering of the world. 
Dedicated to the members of my online meditation group.
Listen to the entire album @ https://heleneseiyu.hearnow.com

REFLECTION

Solidarity

Hélène Seiyu, composition & shakuhachi 2.4
Connecting to nature.
In the depth of the night, listen to the distant call of an owl. Become aware of the sacredness of nature and of your own sacredness as part of nature.

Reflection

Fukurō (Owl)

Fukuda Teruhisa, shakuhachi
Hélène Codjo, flute
Concert Eglise de Montbrun-lès-Bains (2006)

Hato No Iru Fūkei

Kinko-Ryū Honkyoku. New notation (2018).
Practice recording on shakuhachi 1.8 (2022).

TASCAM DR-07MK2

Renbo_Nagashi.mp3

Composition by Fukuda Teruhisa. NEW SCORE VERSION 2018!
Practice recording on shakuhachi 1.8 (2022)

Hijiri-no-shirabe.mp3

Tamuke new version. Practice recording on 1.8

Tamuke2013_with_solo.mp3 (Free DL)

composed by Dai Fujikura
performed by Reison Kuroda
(permission from Reison Kuroda)

Korokoro for Shakuhachi (played by Reison Kuroda)

Silent Cry of a Heron (2016) is part of a continuing effort to devise a notational system with the aim of imbuing my music with a distinctively Japanese aesthetic. The score is designed with an element of rhythmic indeterminacy and uses proportional notation to facilitate a flow of musical time based not on a fixed pulse or meter, but rather on the natural patterns of the human breath. In this piece, I attempted to seamlessly blend the two instruments in a way that emphasizes their similarities and potential correspondences by means of imitative gestures and seamless fusion of their respective timbres, resulting in a soundscape where imagined boundaries between the “East” and “West” become blurred and transcended. 

In Japanese culture, among other traits, the heron represents gracefulness, patience, longevity, tranquility, and partnership. In this work, I seek to evoke these qualities in a musical soundscape of understated and timeless expression.

This work was commissioned by Kiku Day and Kenneth Larsen.

Shakuhachi: Shozan Tanabe 
Clarinet: Thomas Piercy

Silent Cry of a Heron (2016)

Composed by Atsuki SUMI. 
Performed by the DUO SATSUZEN: Catherine Balmer, flute & Hélène Seiyu Codjo, shakuhachi. 
Recorded at the Japanese Cultural Centre Shofukan, in Rotterdam (NL) on 24-02-2019.

Note on the piece by the composer:
"A lumber worker cannot cut down trees against the will of the mountain spirits. When a lumber is polite to the nature, the spirit gives him some trees without hesitation. The spirit who protects trees from arrogant people is called Ha-Mori ( leaf keeper ). 
Please listen to the voice of the trees in a deep mountain. This sound might be the whispers of Ha-Mori."

Hamori, for shakuhachi & flute

flamefox is a continuation of a series of pieces I have composed whose titles are designed by combining two unrelated words for poetic affect, a method suggested to me by the writings of James Joyce, most notably in Ulysses and Finnegan’s Wake. Other pieces in this series include riverrun (2003), wildfire (2004), dragoneyes (2004), and fastpass! (2007). The title of this piece is intended to evoke a sense of unpredictable energy, agility, and brisk, efficient movement. flamefox was commissioned by the Shakuhachi Camp of the Rockies 2007 and premiered at The Dome on the Sunrise Ranch in Loveland, Colorado on June 23, 2007 by David Wheeler, Christopher Blasdel, Yoshio Kurahashi, and Kaoru Kakizakai.	

「flamefox」は、 詩的な効果を狙って、つながりの無い二つの言葉を組み合わせた曲名シリーズのひとつである。この手法は、「ユリシーズ」や「フィネガンズ・ウェイク」で有名な作家、ジェイムス・ジョイスの著作にヒントを得たものである。このシリーズの他の作品としては、「riverrun (2003)」「wildfire (2004)」「fastpass! (2007)」が挙げられる。「flamefox」という曲名は、予想出来ない勢い、機敏で活気のある、無駄の無い動きを喚起させる事を意図してつけられた。それらは、本作品における全体的な特色である。この曲は、 2007年ロッキー尺八キャンプのために委嘱され、デビット・ウィラー、クリストファー遙盟、倉橋義雄、柿堺香各氏らにより、ラブランド（コロラド州）にあるサンライズランチのドームにて、2007年6月23日に初演された。

flamefox (2007)

Japon: shakuhachi, l'esprit du silence

San'ya sugagaki

Hélène Seiyu Codjo is a Shakuhachi Master (Japanese Bamboo Flute) and multi-flutist. 
Contact: helene@fluitshakuhachi.nl
Website/Blog: www.hijirishakuhachi.com
Patreon: www.patreon.com/shakudojo

During her career in classical music (Western flute), she discovered and learned to play different world flutes, until specialising in Japanese music (Hijiri-Kai, school founded by  Fukuda Teruhisa). She has been invited to perform and teach at international festivals in Paris, London, Vejle, Prague. 
Since 2017, she has been composing music for solo shakuhachi.  The Zen spirituality of the flute is essential for her ("Japanese Meditations"). 
More recently, she finds her inspiration through exploring her African roots and the possibility of the shakuhachi ("African Memories").
She lives and works in the Netherlands.
Contact: helene@fluitshakuhachi.nl
Website/Blog: www.hijirishakuhachi.com

Tamuke2013_with_solo.mp3 (Free DL)

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