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ENSCI - Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle - 48, rue St Sabin - 75011 Paris

RoARaTorio invites you to assist to a concert given by Suguru Goto and Yoko Matsuda, who are exceptionally present in Paris, Saturday 2 December 2000, a the l'ENSCI, the Ecole Nationale Superieure de la Création Industrielle.

CONCERT : REAL VIOLIN AND VIRTUAL VIOLIN
Suguru Goto - Yoko Matsuda

7:30 pm: public presentation
8:30 : concert.

With the support of the l'ENSCI, the Ecole Nationale Superieure de la Création Industrielle, and of CIDMA - Création Ingénierie Diffusion des Musiques d' Aujourd'hu.
Thanks to Christian Barani, Rolland Cahen, Alain Michon, Morgane Séguy, Thomas Dusserre, and Bruno Martinet

Concert presentation / Program / Biographies / Programming notes

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REAL VIOLIN AND VIRTUAL VIOLIN

For the concert purposes, two kinds of violins are played. The "real violin", or acoustic violin, -as played in chamber music or in orchestra - and "virtual violin", which is similar to the acoustic one, and developed to work with a computer. The virtual violin has no cords, no bow. The violinist gesture is used but the sounds created are completely different.
The instrument works as well with a computing sound installation as with an interactive video installation. In this program, composition for both violins shall be play.

Yoko Matsuda is an interpret musician on a international scale. She participates in numerous concerts through the world. She is a specialist in contemporary music. After a long journey in the USA, she plays again sometimes in Japan. Her activities are split between educational activities and concerts.

Suguru Goto is a Japanese compositor. His orchestral composition work was played by the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. He is the co-creator of the Tokyo DSPSS festival at IAMAS, Japan.

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PROGRAM

VirtualAERI II
Introduction, first movement, second movement, interactive coda for virtual violin and interactive video.
(1998) (29') / Suguru Goto

Suguru Goto, Virtual violin.

Break (10')

Nocturne for Solo Violin.
(1969, revised in 1985) (7') / Mel Powell.

Braid time for Violin and computer.
(2000) (10') / Suguru Goto

Yoko Matsuda, acoustic violin.

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Biographies

YOKO MATSUDA

Yoko Matsuda is a violinist. She received her first musical education in Japan, at the Toho Musical School.
After she arrived in the United States in 1960, she received many prizes including the first prize of Merriweather Post Competition.
She graduated of a Bachelor Music Degree at Hartford University, Hatt College and a Music Master Degree at Yale university.
Yoko Matsuda played many time as a soloist with major American orchestras and symphonic orchestra in Japan. She interprets with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Music from Marlboro.
Passionate of quartet interpretation, Yoko Matsuda was member of Yale Quartet from 1964 to 1967, and on the West Cost, she was founder and first violinist of Sequoia Quartet from 1971 to 1985.
In the 70's, Yoko Matsuda was in charge of Chestnut Hill Concerts artistic direction in Connecticut, where musician among the greatest gather for summer time for presentation of chamber music concerts.
In 1985, she organized the "Ima Concerts" that included chamber music concert series in communes around L.A. area, Orange District, but also a annual tour in Japan.
Yoko Matsuda taught as the California Institute of Arts director and was in the teaching staff of Pomona College.
She recorded for Vanguard, Delos, CRL and Nonesuch records.

SUGURU GOTO

SUGURU GOTO Suguru Goto is born in Japan. He studied composition under Lukas Foss, Earl Brown and Robert Cogan in the US (New England Conservatory of Boston, CCRMA in Stanford under Dieter Schnebel at Berlin Technical University, Germany).
Since his beginning in Tanglewood music festival, Suguru Goto has an international career and gained numerous prizes : Boston Symphonic Orchestra Scholarship, Koussevitzky prize at Tanglewood Music Center, Seattle Marzena International Composition Competition first prize. He received also numerous command from the NHK Broadcasting Company of Tokyo, from Berlin State, from BKA… His works were played in well-known festivals (Tanglewood, Aspen, Pacific, Intertionen'94…) and his first opera, Nada (Media opera) was created in 1995 at the Berlin Shauspielhaus.
Suguru Goto is the founder of the Homeless Ensemble, an experimental electronique music ensemble.
His musical works created for computers were performed by the Electronic Music Studio at Tokyo NHK, the Electroacoustic Sutdio of Berlin Technical University and Amsterdam STEIM foundation. Suguru Goto music pieces were played in France, England, Germany, Italia, Japan and USA. His work, Giseion to Gousei, recorded on CD, is available at Akademie der Künste Berlin.

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PROGRAMMING NOTES

VirtualAERI II - Suguru Goto
Introduction, first movement, second movement, coda.
For virtual violin and interactive video - 1998 - 29'
Suguru Goto, virtual violin.

While most discussions dealing about aesthetics are establishing only on current trends and lead to skepticism - like "the after post-modernism" or the "ivory towers" of school and their academics -, from a personal point of view, a naïve identification lead most of the time to an exclusive research for personal goals.
The motivation for this composition is born at first from that statement. Then, increasingly, the concept of a research on interaction in perception fields in terms of time and compositional space appeared.
The original version of this composition was realized at STEIM, in Netherlands. The first version was played in Xebec Hall of Kobe, Japan. The revised version with the interactive video was realized in the same place.
The sound is generated in order to communicate feelings of a mechanical and dense texture, through series of blocks simultaneously separated but in some ways organically linked, but also to make meet in real time virtual violin with performance. The interactive video doesn't aim at expressing any particular sense. It can exist in parallel with sound.
This permits to address another field of interactive perception - visible and audio experience.

Nocturne - Mel Powel
For solo violin -1969, revised in 1985 - 7'12"
Yoko Matsuda, acoustic violin.

The solitude of this non accompanied violin is outlined by the extremely inner nature of this monologue.
A transposition series, step to step - a breathing, a mediation, an intense scream -, speak out the nocturne, answering to its title, seems to reflect dreams more than a spoken discourse.
To the opposite of a performance, it keeps hidden its intern demand, allots for the interpret all his rigor, the overwhelmed virtuosity, in order to simply speak.
The tension effect is a result of the way how a thought was drawn from over there - a continuous come back more than a development, discovering enigmas let unresolved. An intense intimate zone, away from external worlds, from usual rules of order in a standard use of time.
For Powel, the work is directly produced by these under laying structures and presents nothing but a modest extension - the concept of invariance introduced by Webern more than half a century ago.

Yoko Matusda often played this nocturne in concert in the US, in Europe and Japan.

Text by R.G. Naldec - traduction : roARatorio.

Temps-tressé - Suguru Goto
For Violin and computer - 2000 - 10 min.
Yoko Matsuda, acoustic violin.

Those compositions concepts come from two key words, "maze" and "tautology". Substance, rarefied, are unceasingly taken back in different concepts, but also transformed according different figures. Those sound braids, like maze within once advances, braided time layers.
The background of this composition can be found in series that the compositor started lately, having as a theme, the relation between society and identity.

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