Ayana TSUJITA 「ハイドンのおまじない」(2022) https://youtu.be/-zEGtati550
Piano : Tatsuto MASUDA
Video editing : Jun ISHIKAWA

Regarding the technique that has long been used to "replace the spelling of a name with a sound," I have long had some doubts about the relationship between the actual sound that resonates and the letter. I wanted to find my own connection between these two points, and this was the genesis of the idea for this work.

As a different topic, last year I had the opportunity to visit a fashion brand with a witch motif, and I became very interested in the idea of modern witches and the culture associated with witches. There I learned that there is a writing system called "runes," which is closely related to witches.

Runes are letters used in ancient Europe for divination and rituals. Each of them has its own symbolic "color" and "meaning," and you can find runes in various scenes even today, such as combining some of the letters to make an original mark to ward off evil, or replacing your name with a runic character.
When I learned about these uses of letters, I felt that the use of letters as sound name symbols in classical music is also similar to a kind of "spell," and I found my own meaning in the use of sound sequences in which the alphabet is replaced by sounds.

The runes can be adapted to the modern alphabet.
The present work consists of six sections in which the "HAYDN" alphabet string is replaced by "sound strings" and "runes".
Following the opening section, which uses "H-A-D-D-G" as the sound string, the music expresses the symbolic "meaning" and "color" of the corresponding runes when the alphabet is replaced by the runic letters.

A section using a sequence of notes with the symbolic names of the notes at the beginning of the section.
The accentuation of the word "Haydn" when it is uttered, as well as the highs and lows of the accent, etc.
The image is incorporated as an incantation.


Next are the rune letters corresponding to HAYDN and their symbolic meanings and colors.
If we replace "HAYDN" with the runic letters, we get "ᚺᚨᚣᛞᚾ".

    ᚺ Hagar
    Hail, destruction, sudden accident, bright blue
    The sound falls in spots like hail. This section is like sitting still and waiting for the storm to pass.

    ᚨ ansur
    Mouth, communication, dark blue
    It is composed as if the right hand and the left hand are speaking. The left hand gradually stops listening to the right hand.

    ᚣ el.
    Death and rebirth, defense, dark blue
    The piano lid is closed and a passage from Haydn's work is played.

    ᛞ Daeg.
    Beginning and end, dawn, routine, power of light, bright blue
    This section is developed in a routine with motifs using note rows, which is also meant to be a rebirth from the previous section.

    ᚾ niid
    Binding, necessity, patience, black
    A recreation of the beginning of the piece unfolds.

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Magic spell of Haydn / ハイドンのおまじない(2022)

Masahiro Aogaki (b.1991) is a Japanese composer currently based in Paris. In his recent compositional process, Aogaki has demonstrated a keen interest in redefining the identities and the integrities of instruments, voices, and texts, while also recontextualizing existing musical languages. Inspired by the poetry of Romanian surrealist Ghérasim Luca, he particularly explores the phenomenon of “stuttering” that characterizes Luca’s works, influencing his musical compositions.

In 2017, he obtained his Master’s degree in Composition from Tokyo University of the Arts under Ichiro Nodaira, and later graduated with highest honors unanimously from the Paris Conservatory (CNSMDP) in 2022, where he worked with Stefano Gervasoni, Luis Naón, Yan Maresz, Grégoire Lorieux, Yann Geslin, and Oriol Saladrigues. In 2022-23, Aogaki participated in the IRCAM Cursus led by Pierre Jodlowski and Simone Conforti. His first portrait concert took place in Paris in July 2023, and his piece Dé-monologue –Cinq poèmes de Ghérasim Luca– was nominated for Le Tremplin Musical of the Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco in the same year. From 2023 to 2025, he was appointed composer-in-residence at the Conservatoire Claude Debussy in Paris’ 17th arrondissement, collaborating with Ensemble Court-circuit.

His works have been performed by various ensembles such as Orchestre de Picardie, Orchestre de Caen, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Court-circuit, Ensemble Fractales, loadbang, Bux Ensemble, Ensemble Reconsil, Ensemble Eins, Ensemble Muromachi, Ensemble Next, Collettivo_21, and Duo Jeux d’Anches, among others. Aogaki has participated in numerous masterclasses and received guidance from composers and ensembles including Tristan Murail, Allain Gaussin, Philippe Manoury, Thierry De Mey, Jean-Luc Hervé, Marco Momi, Jaime Reis, Sivan Eldar, Joji Yuasa, Misato Mochizuki, and Diotima Quartet.

He has been awarded grants from institutions such as the Meiji Yasuda Cultural Foundation, the Nomura Foundation, the Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan, the Kakehashi Foundation, and the Centre International Nadia et Lili Boulanger.
 
Some of his works are published by BabelScores.

辻田絢菜 | Composer | Orchestrator 

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I continues genre-independent activities with the aim of spreading the enjoyment of a wide range of music using acoustic instruments.

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アコースティック楽器を使った幅広い音楽の楽しみを普及することを目標に、ジャンルに捉われない活動を続ける。
東京藝術大学音楽学部作曲科を経て、同大学院修士課程作曲専攻修了。

‘14年 第83回日本音楽コンクール作曲部門入選、岩谷賞（聴衆賞）受賞。
‘15年 第25回芥川作曲賞ノミネート。
‘18年 NHK委嘱作品「CollectionismⅪ/Sidhe for orchestra」放送初演
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‘22年 NHK Eテレアニメ「インセクトランド」音楽担当

Born in 1978 in Yokohama, Japan, Takuya Imahori graduated Tamagawa University College of Literature, and received the superior diploma in composition from L'École Normale de Musique de Paris Alfred Cortot. In 2005-06, he collaborated in the composition courses of the Institut of Research and Coordination of Acoustic and Music (IRCAM). 2012-2014 he has studied at the Haute École de Musique de Genève. He graduated the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia di Roma in 2017 with the perfect score with praise. Imahori studied composition with Yoshiyuki Doi, Masami Mikai, Yoshihisa Taira, Jean-Luc Hervé, Philippe Leroux, Michael Jarrell, Luis Naon, and Ivan Fedele. He also studies conducting with Laurent Gay and actually with Yoichi Sugiyama at Civica Scuola di Musica di Milano Claudio Abbado. He participated in world-class summer courses and master-classes such as Darmstadt (Germany), Centre-Acanthe (France), Voix-Nouvelle de Royaumont (France), Composit (Italy), Savellyspaja (Finland), ISA (Austria), Takefu (Japan) and Akiyoshidai (Japan). He was awarded the Gaudeamus Prize (Netherlands / 2001) for his work Circle of Time for 16 players. His works have been performed all over the world, in such renowned festivals and venues as Donaueschinger Musiktage, Festival Présences of Radio France, Yokohama Minato-mirai Hall's commissioned concert “Just Composed in Yokohama”, “Musik der Gegenwart” radio programme concert in Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, Pharos International Contemporary Music Festival in Nicosia, Festival L’Archipel in Geneva, Biennale of Venice and Wittener Tage. He has been invited to the resident composer in Visby International Composers Centre in 2012 and 2015, and also selected and invited to the “KulturKontakt Austria” Artist in Residency Program in Vienna by Austrian Federal Minister for EU in 2018 April to June. Takuya Imahori received the 3rd prize of the 2nd edition of Basel Composition Competition in 2019 with his work “Con mille fiori che sbocciano così belli”.

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Magic spell of Haydn / ハイドンのおまじない(2022)

Ayana TSUJITA | 辻田絢菜