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Copyright

Mikako Mizuno

Published On

2024-10-09

Page Range

pp. 713–714

Language

  • English

Print Length

2 pages

42. Japanese Society of Electronic Music (JSEM) Concert

A Tribute Celebrating Iannis Xenakis’s Centennial

  • Mikako Mizuno (author)
Chapter of: Meta-Xenakis: New Perspectives on Iannis Xenakis’s Life, Work, and Legacies(pp. 713–714)
On December 9, 2022, the JSEM (Japanese Society of Electronic Music) held a concert celebrating Xenakis’s centennial in Shibuya Densyo Hall, Japan. The year 2022 was also monumental year for JSEM as it represented the Society’s 30th anniversary. This concert featured a lecture by Takehito Shimazu, the diffusion of the eight prize-winning pieces of UPISketch International Competition, and the world premieres of five new pieces composed by JSEM composers and dedicated to Xenakis:
1. Kyohei Hayashi: Galactic Blood (fixed audio-visual)
2. Masahiro Oda: Vertigo (fixed audio-visual)
3. Osamu Kadowaki: mesure space X (fixed audio)
4. Satoshi Fukushima: uncountable structures I (fixed audio)
5. Mikako Mizuno: Rosehip Surface (fixed audio)

Contributors

Mikako Mizuno

(author)
Lecturer at Nagoya College of Music

Mikako Mizuno is a composer and musicologist, with a PhD in engineering focusing on the “Concept of Space in the Contemporary Music.” Her writings mostly concern electroacoustic music, cultural exchange between France and Japan, music theory, and compositional theory. Her works have been premiered in several European countries and in the USA as well as at ISEA2000 and 2002, ISCM2003,2010,2024, EMS2010 Shanghai, ICMC2017, 2018, 2019, 2021,2022, 2023, Musicacoustica2010, ACMP2011, 2012, 2013, 2018, WOCMAT2013,2018, NIME2021 etc. She worked at Nagoya City University from 1997 to 2024, teaching sound design and music information theory. She is now teaching composition and musicology at Nagoya College of Music. She is the President of the Japanese Society for Electronic Music (JSEM).