カテゴリー: 音楽の仕組み・構造 / MUSIC-STRUCTURE

 This work was composed in 1992 for Japanese and Percussion instruments.

 The title is Kaleidoscore, which is a compound word of kaleidoscope and score.

 Perform improvisation poetry by selecting one figure from A to D on all four sides.

 Performance time is 3 to 5 minutes.

1. Two players start at the same time.
    They don’t have to finish at the same time.
2. he shortest time for each block is 2 seconds and the maximum is 10 seconds.
   Mix short, medium and long, and play 4 sides continuously.
   Don’t change the tempo of one side during the performance.
3. The tempo of the faces selected from the 4 faces (for example, A, C, B, C, D, A, etc) must not be the same. 
4. Your volume strength should not be the same as your partner.
   Be sure to set the volume opposite or amplify it more. 
5. You can play the figure as many times as you like from the four sides, but be sure to select it only once. 
6. You can write the figure yourself and compose a new Kaleidoscore and play it.

Sign in figures (Six types from the top)

Short sound
Phrase (connected song)
Ornament (by ad lib)
Special sound ( sounds by new instruments)
Changing sound ( glissand, vibrato, etc)
Animal voice/sound

Katsuhiro Tsubonou

  [music score]

  Keep moving all parts of your body (eyes, head, face, mouth, hands, fingers, neck, shoulder, lower back, waist, knees, both legs, feet, toes, ankles) slowly and without stopping. Make sure that no part has the same movement.
　When you dance alone keep dancing so the body does not move in the same patterns as it shakes in the atmosphere. 
　When two or more people dance, each person should have time to perform themselves in different movements, to imitate the movements of the other person, and to ”dialogue” with each other. Start in a space where you won’t hit your partner. 
　The performance ends when all the participants have stopped moving whether it is within 5 minutes or more than a few hours later. 
　You can make a breathing sound or noise from your body, or wear something that makes a sound. 
　Participants may add rules such as a sharp movement every now and then or once in a while. 

© Katsuhiro Tsubonou 1998
from the Workshop of Creative Music Making at Koshigaya