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Main Works

Composition

(Title

 Name of the concert in which the piece was premiered,      Date and place of the premiere)

 

“Dissolution II” for Bassoon solo  

Hidetaka Nakagawa Basoon Recital                           March 8, 2019, Toyonaka, Japan 

 

“Improvisation-Hashirigaki” for solo percussionist

(marimba 1, conga 1 set, cowbell 1, woodblocks 2)

Enrico Bertelli Percussion Recital                               October 14, 2018, Nara, Japan 

 

 

“Theater piece on Rappa Bushi” for 4 performers (2 keyboard harmonicas, 2 percussionists)

Tomomi Shimizu Performs Makoto Nomura, Kohei Kondo, and Motohide Taguchi

                                                                                       March 25, 2018, Toyonaka, Japan 

(Video recording can be found on following website.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1TOQL8-92c

(53:14 - 1:01:50)

 

“Forgotten times, forgotten voices” for accordion and alto saxophone

Tomomi Matsubara Accordion Recital- Nova Ventus! Accordion!-

                                                                                        March 20, 2018, Toyonaka, Japan       

 

Sound Installation “Exchanging memories related to sounds and music”

Open house Exhibition at the Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik    

                                                                                        February 22, 2018, Berlin, Germany 

 

“The infernal affair in Tamugan, Davao” for baritone and piano 

JSCM, Autumn Exhibition of Contemporary Music 2017 II, Concert of JSCM Members “Independent” I                                                                                                                            November 29, 2017, Tokyo, Japan

(Video recording can be found on following website.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19AD9crlrqA

 

“Ritual on Wartime Memories” for 15 performers 

Final performance of the project with same title at the Philippine Nikkei Jin Kai School

(Collaborative composition with 14 students of the grade 8 of the school)

                                                                                         December 6, 2016, Davao, The Philippines

(Video recording can be found on following website.)

http://www.tufnomadicairph.org/portfolio/motohide-taguchi/

 

“For Jasmine Flowers” for piano                        

Doctoral Solo Recital of Christopher McKiggan: Resonance of Hope at Rice University

                                                                                         April 1, 2015, Houston, Texas, USA

 

“Midare Sugagaki” for shakahachi solo                      

JSCM, Autumn Exhibition of Contemporary Music 2014 II: “Independent” I

                                                                                        October 29, 2014, Tokyo, Japan

 “Miyagi; The Woman” for shamisen and voice           

JSCM, Autumn Exhibition of Contemporary Music 2013 II: “Independent”II

                                                                                        November 11, 2013, Tokyo, Japan

Sound Installation “Between Shifted Memories”  

Nothing to Declare Exhibition at Yuchengko Museum 

                                                                                        November 16, 2011 - January 29, 2012, Makati, The Philippines

 

“The Garden with Ritualistic Sounds” for two trombones   

JSCM, Exhibition of Contemporary Music 2009 IV, Contemporary Virtuoso! 

                                                                                          March 6, 2009, Tokyo, Japan

 

“Dance” for Japanese instruments and Chin-Dong Orchestra  

JSCM, Exhibition of Contemporary Music 2008 V, Fusion Festa

                                                                                          March 16, 2008, Kawasaki, Japan

“Like a Rhinoceros’ Horn” for recorder solo                      

Composers’ Group “Sou”, The 22nd Exhibition          May 19, 2007, Tokyo, Japan

“Ame Wo Matsu Kokoro ” for ten performers     

An Evening of Asian Contemporary Music                   October 3 , 2002, Quezon City, The Philippines

(Video recording can be found on following website.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpsgOnUttRk

“Playground” for 15 players                      

Slot Concert, 8th International Young Composers’Meeting

                                                                                          February 15, 2002, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands

“Appearance/Disappearance” for shakuhachi and two koto   

Con Temporary Ko to…Hougaku Ehibition V                February 16, 2001, Tokyo, Japan

 

“Dissolution” for trombone and piano                       

JSCM, Autumn Exhibition of Contemporary Music 1999 III,  The 16th JSCM Award for Composers  

                                                                                            November 8, 1999, Tokyo, Japan

papers, articles

Published

“Traditional Music as a Medium of Collective Memories: Cases from Batanes and Biwako”    

In Living Landscapes and Connected Communities: Culture, Environment, and Changes across Asia, Areca Books, pp272-282, 2014.   

                            

“Book Review: Jose S. Buenconsejo. The River of Exchange: Music of Agusan Manobo and Visayan Relations in Caraga, Mindanao, Philippines (DVD)”                

In Southeast Asian Studies Vol. 49 No2, pp 330-332 (CSEAS, Kyoto University), 2011 

 

“Commentary technique in Luciano Berio”s work “Chemins II”  (written in Japanese)     

In Bulletin of the Department of Education, Ibaraki University (Humanities, Social Science, Arts Vol 59), pp41-57, 2010

 

“To Compose as an Asian – The Relationship Between Traditional Music and The Works of Contemporary Composers in The Philippines and Indonesia”                

In Economic Prospects, Cultural Encounters and Political Decisions: Scenes in a Moving Asia (East and Southeast). , Partner Institutions of API Program. pp297-309, 2005.

Unpublished (presented in the conferences)

“Reconfiguring Music through Re-Defining the Role of Players in Composition Works: Three Innovative Examples from Asia”

Presented in 33rd Asian Composers League International Festival and Conference (Quezon City, The Philippines), November, 2015. 

“Filipino Contemporary Music: Characteristic Ways of Filipino Composers to Utilize Traditional Music with Contemporary Musical Idioms”                                    

Presented in 8th International Conference on Philippine Studies (Quezon City, The Philippines), July 2009

“The Reflection and the Development of the Traditional Music in the Contemporary Works in Indonesia – Some Examples in java and Their Background”                   

Presented in Conference on Traditional Vietnamese and Asian Music: Adapting Globalized World (Hanoi, Vietnam), January 2005                                           

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