Label: Edition Omega Point - OPA-011

日本の戦後世代を代表する作曲家のひとりである藤枝守は、80年代初頭に、ミニマル的作風のピアノ曲をベースに電子的変調とテープ操作を加えた、奇妙な響きの小品を作っていた。螺旋状の下降音階による「ラジエーテッド・フォーリング」、バッハの名曲が解体されていく「フーガの技法」。これらの作品には、実はいくつものバージョンがあり、それぞれ異なるエフェクトが施されている。今回はそれらをすべて開陳した。特に5-9トラックの「フーガの技法」では、進むに従って速度は遅くなり、音が崩れていくのが楽しめる。極めて知的なアプローチなのに音はヨジレまくっている！

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Both "Radiated Falling" (1980) and "The Art of Fugue" (1981) are tape compositions in which sound materials of a prepared piano are electronically processed and modulated in various ways. 《Radiated Falling》is based on 《Falling Scale No.2 for piano》(1975). The sound materials were then transformed to layered sonic textures through the ring modulator, the phase shifter, the harmonizer, and various delay processes.
《The Art of Fugue》is based on a simple fugue in four voices from the first piece in The Art of Fugue by J. S. Bach. The four voices were randomly cut into fragments, which were then reassembled to form four new voices. Each of the voices played by a differently prepared piano was recorded in a multi-track recorder to produce sound materials for the piece. The sound materials of the prepared piano was then electronically modulated and spatially processed. - from liner note