Cloud and Light

for shô and orchestra

shô and orchestra

Edition: Performance material

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One produces sound on a shô by inhaling and exhaling. The sense of time of the instrument reminds me that time is spirally circling and the floating sounds with faint changes of harmonies are as if the light is radiated from the instrument and the light and shadow are subtly crossing and moving with changes of harmonies. When I composed this new shô concerto, I was inspired by a Buddhism painting, raigo-zu. I treated sounds as the cloud and tried to depict the gradual descending of the cloud to the land from far away, growing together or away with the light (shô). Toshio Hosokawa

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Title:

Cloud and Light

for shô and orchestra

Edition:

Performance material

Publisher/Label:

Schott Music

Year of composition:

2008

Duration:

17 ′

World Premiere:

June 1, 2008 · Saarbrücken (D)
Congresshalle
MOUVEMENT. Musik im 21. Jahrhundert 2008
Mayumi Miyata, Shô · Conductor: Peter Hirsch · Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern

Commissioned work :

Commissioned by Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern (SR/SWR) and the Pacific Music Festival (Sapporo/Japan)