TATSURU ARAI Composer,Sound/Visual Artist,Creator of Gesamtkunstwerk
Trans-Ages-Music
Concept
By studying 600 years of Music history that spans from Middle Age to Contemporary, I have extracted some “geometric structure” which constitutes fundamental elements of music. Those musical elements are essential for the innovations in musical structures. Trans-Ages-Music is a method in which those musical elements are reconstructed into “meta-style” while maintaining music temperaments and achieve maximum contrast and dramaturgy.
The history of music
The history of music began by the notation, as the medieval neumatic notation and followed by the score as standard notation. By this epoch-making notation, the composer and the music critic were able to think about the music theoretically and mathematically, and then music theory was developed greatly. Through this, many composers became aware of aesthetic nature of the theoretical and mathematical form of music. For example, the music by J.S.Bach, Beethoven, Wagner and Schönberg, has a mathematical form that is based on their aesthetics senses. That mathematical form is what I call "geometric structure". They will be a big hint of finding the physical nature in the perceptual, artistic experience of human.