Japanese composer
Somei Satoh 佐藤 聰明 |
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| Born | (1947-01-19)January 19, 1947
Sendai, Miyagi, Japan |
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| Occupation(s) | Composer |
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Musical artist
Somei Satoh (佐藤 聰明, Satō Sōmei, born January 19, 1947 in Sendai, Japan) is a Japanese composer of contemporary music. His compositions mix Japanese court music with European romanticism and electronic music.[1]
His musical career began with an experimental, mix media group called "Tone Field" in Tokyo. He studied at Nihon University of Art in the early 1970s[2] and is primarily self-taught in composition. In 1972 and 1981, Satoh produced two other experimental projects. The latter involved placing eight speakers approximately one kilometer apart on nearby mountain tops overlooking a huge valley. In 1985, he collaborated with theater designer Manuel Luetgenhorst to stage his music at The Arts at St. Ann's in Brooklyn, New York.[3]
He wrote his violin concerto for Anne Akiko Meyers.[citation needed]
He currently[when?] lives in Tokyo.[citation needed]
Compositions
- Orchestra
- Sumeru (1982)
- Homa (1988)
- Ruika (1990)
- Toward the Night (1991)
- Glimmering Darkness (1995)
- Kami no Miuri (1995)
- Burning Meditation (1995)
- Listening to Fragrances of the Dusk (1997)
- Firefly Garden (1998)
- Kisetsu (1999)
- From the Depth of Silence (2000)
- Kyokoku (2000)
- Violin Concerto (2002)
- Vocal music
- Works using Japanese musical instruments
- Chinmoku (Silence) (1977)
- Kaze no Kyoku (Music of the Winds) (1979)
- Ki No Koe (Voice of Tree) (1982)
- Kamu Ogui Goto (1989)
- Kougetsu KOUGETSU (1990)
- Snayou (1991)
- Tamaogi Koto (1994)
- Hi No Kyoku (1996)
- Usuzumi (2004)
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- Chamber music
- Litania (1973)
- Hymn for the Sun (1973)
- Kagami (Mirror) (1975)
- Cosmic Womb (1975)
- Incarnation II (1978)
- The Heavenly Spheres are Illuminated by Lights (1979)
- Birds in Warped Time II (1980)
- Hoshi No Mon (A Gate into the Stars) (1982)
- Kaze No Kyoku II (Music of the Winds II) (1984)
- Hikari (Light) (1986)
- Toki No Mon (A Gate into Infinity) (1988)
- Shun-Shu-Ka (Lament for Spring) (1989)
- Lanzarote (1993)
- Incarnation I (1977)
- Uzu (Vortex) (1988)
- Recitative (1991)
- Innocence (1996)
- Choral (2000)
- Bifu (2013)
- Electronic music
- Emerald Tablet (1978)
- Mandara (1982)
- Mantra (1986)
- Tantra (1990)
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