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Composing Zahdi, Pt. 1
Photos and Contribution by David Crandall [EDITOR’S NOTE: Part of the continuing conversation surrounding Carrie Preston’s Zahdi Dates and Poppies, premiering on March 30, 2016 at the Tsai Performance Center, Boston.] In their delightful posts, Carrie and David S. both … Continue reading
Finding the Dog
[EDITOR’S NOTE: Mr. Crandall provides some thoughts concerning his composition of the score of Carrie Preston’s Zahdi Dates and Poppies, premiering on March 30, 2016 at the Tsai Performance Center, Boston. Image of painting provided by David Crandall. Please consider … Continue reading
Newsletter, Vol. 7, Nos. 3-4
The newest edition of our newsletter is now available. Please click above, or on the image to download the PDF. In this issue we’ve got an article covering our 2012 Costume Workshop, an article by Traditional Theatre Training founder Jonah … Continue reading
Posted in Atsumori, Costume Workshop, Newsletter Articles, Noh Music, Performances
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Not noh, but Not not noh
Contributed by Michael Gardiner In my recent, more analytic posts, there was some semblance of logic and/or method, however ill-formed. But today I’m going to try and talk about my own music and noh. A dangerous topic, and by all … Continue reading
Time and its Double: An Alchemical Inquiry
Contributed by Michael Gardiner That the process of the universal or truth—they are one and the same thing—is transversal relative to all available instances of knowledge means that the universal is always an incalculable emergence, rather than a describable structure. … Continue reading
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Tagged ars nova, elliot carter, hayashi, issei, kotsuzumi, noh, noh music, otsuzumi, pierre boulez rituel, sashi, transversal system, transversal time, unmatched rhythm, waki
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Beyond the Agemaku (揚幕)
Contributed by David Surtasky Oshirabe. The flute and drums begin, unseen by the audience, their aural sigils reach out in preface to the story about to unfold. In a line the musicians sit, just beyond the edge of the agemaku. … Continue reading
The Look of the Feel (Pt. IV)
Contributed by Michael Gardiner (Part IV of A few thoughts on instrumental tone-color and the noh spectrum.) Figure 1 Tone-color Profile of the Kotsuzumi Although the kotsuzumi is smaller in size than the ōtsuzumi, figure 1 shows that the pitch … Continue reading
The Look of the Feel (Pt. III)
Contributed by Michael Gardiner (Part III of A few thoughts on instrumental tone-color and the noh spectrum.) Nohkan There are numerous scholarly sources describing the construction and basic principles of the noh flute, so I will forego such commentary here. … Continue reading
Posted in Noh Music
Tagged funabenkei, hagoromo, hishigi, kotsuzumi, ma, matsukaze, michael gardiner, music timbre, noh, noh music, noh theatre, nohkan, otsuzumi, spectral analysis, spectrographic image, theatre nohgaku, yoin
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The Look of the Feel (Pt. II)
Contributed by Michael Gardiner (Part II of A few thoughts on instrumental tone-color and the noh spectrum.) To look at the musical colors of noh I will use spectrographic images, which allow one to discuss in detail elements of the … Continue reading
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Tagged formants, funabenkei, hagoromo, hayashi, kakegoe, matsukaze, michael gardiner, music timbre, noh, noh music, nohkan, otsuzumi, spectral analysis, spectrographic image, theatre nohgaku
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Drums of the Moment
Contributed by Matthew Dubroff For this summer’s Noh Training Project (NTP) performance of Atsumori, I began preparing one year in advance to play the kotsuzumi (small shoulder drum). I practiced the last half of the play under the guidance of … Continue reading
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Tagged atsumori, ôkawa, kakegoe, kiri, kotsuzumi, kuse, matthew dubroff, noh, Noh Training Project, nohkan, Oshima Kinue, oto-ko-mai, otokomai, otsuzumi, takigi noh, theatre nohgaku, utaibon
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