Irrashaimase
Steven Naylor
Programme notes
Irrashaimase is an interior monologue or meditation on sounds of urban Japan
Irrashaimase is the 1st in a series of works concerned with the interplay between memory and imagination where the pieces merge soundscape, radiophonic, and acousmatic elements into abstracted musical portraits of times and places.
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Irrashaimase was realized in 2000 in the Electroacoustic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham (UK) and the composer’s studio in Nova Scotia (Canada), and premiered on February 6, 2000 during the “Aural Kinetics” concert series produced by BEAST at the Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham. The work has also been presented in BEAST
Premiere
- February 6, 2000, Aural Kinetics
: Concert, Foyle Studio — Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham (England, UK)
- Composer(s): Steven Naylor
- Year of composition: 2000
- Duration: 8:15
- Instrumentation: stereo fixed medium
- Publisher(s): Ymx média
- ISRC: CAD501210050
