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中国笙とオーケストラのための《Pink Elephant in Prentis》w/score

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iRGrZTa6Jo

作曲：清水チャートリー

委嘱：上海交響楽団

"Pink Elephant in Prentis" for alto sheng and orchestra

Commissioned and premieredbyShanghai Philharmonic Orchestra (cond. Zhang Liang)

Prentis Hallis abuilding inNew YorkCity, where I spent a year (2015-2016) living in a sleeping bag and taking showers in the toilet. Prentiswas built in 1909 andwas initially designedas apasteurization facility andmilk bottlingplant, then later usedas aHeat Transfer Research Facility, conducting nuclear research and experiments, during the Manhattan Project.Columbia University acquired thebuilding in 1949, and thebuildinghas housedColumbia’sComputerMusic Center (thenColumbia-Princeton ElectronicMusic Center) from the 1950sonwards. During mytime thereat theComputerMusic Center, I have spent mydays andnights exploring stimulating sounds using bothanalog anddigital synthesizers,tape recorders,CTR monitors, and other equipments unfamiliar to me back then.Aside from theComputerMusic Center, thebuilding also housed studios forvisual artists, and so Iwas able to meet many eccentric artists, where we ended up having long conversations every nighton both significant and insignificantissues surrounding us.

Locatedon 125th Street in Manhattan, the “residents” of Prentis Hall were constantly harassedby the rumblings of theNew YorkCitySubway (which runs aboveground for 125th StreetStation), the traffic from the highway nearby, the bustling ofthe streets ofNew York, and the constructionnoises from the nearbybuilding sites.Atnights, the screechingnoises from the metal shop and the wood shop constantly rang throughout thebuilding.Atonepoint intime, thenoise inspired me to imagine a gigantic pink elephant running through the narrow corridors of Prentis. The head and fronthalf of thebodywas seemingly anormal elephantfound in the wild. However,as I scanned myeyes further back, thebody of theanimal seemed to becomemore andmore pixelated, and small3Dblocks were clearly visibleonits back and hindlegs,as if moldedby an amateurcreator in aMinecraft game.As the elephant advanced, someblocks fellonto the floorlike water dropletsfalling from ananimal soaked in water. I rubbed myeyes and shook my head, certain that I have entered adreamat somepoint during the night. The pink elephant walked past me and wandered intoone of the many rooms thebuilding offered. I timidly peeked into the room where the pink elephant disappeared into. The pink elephant seemed to have collapsedon the floor,itsbody, both the organic front and the pixelated back, expanding and shrinkingasit sluggishly inhaled and exhaled oxygen.

After hours of staringat the pink elephant, I jumped backat a sudden startlingnoise from behind, which woke the pink elephant fromitsdeep slumber. Furious, the pink elephant stoodonitstwo pixelated hindlegs, and stompedout into the corridorsagain, thistime shaking offmore3Dblocks fromits back than whenit first arrived. The organic front seemed to start to bloat uplike a balloon for reasons unknown to me, and the pixelated back grew smaller and smaller due toits parts crumbling downon the floor. In ablink of an eye, the inflated front side split fromits pixelated rear, then with a deafeningpop, exploded into thinairlike aburst balloon. Whatwas left were the pink3Dblocks ofall sizes, scattered aroundon the corridors of Prentis Hall.

Chatori Shimizu:https://www.chatorishimizu.com/

Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra:http://www.shphilharmonic.com/

December 7th, 2018.Shanghai,China.

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