International Composing and Communications Project 98-99 at ASIJ
Our fifth year of distant composition consisted
of four stages:
internet practice jam | starter ideas from country | arrangements based on
starter ideas | live jam on the internet
Composing
Partners
American School in Japan - Tokyo, Japan | Cacilienschule -
Oldenberg, Germany | Telopea High School - Canberra, Australia
Schulzentrum Walle - Bremen, Germany | Lodovi (LOLO) Macor - Trstena,
Slovakia | Aldegrever Gymnasium - Soest, Germany
Live Internet Jam of
Final Draft
October 13 1999
16:00 in Tokyo
ASIJ Oct 13 Live
ASIJ composers tonight are Dan Dicksinson,
William Majerison, Soko Fujimoto, Eisuke Nakajima, Albert Huber,
Fumi Tsukioka, Minoru Toyoda. We have been working with composers
from Oldenberg and Slovakia on a File 2 idea. The sun is setting
in Japan but in Germany the students are just beginning school.
It is a challenge to find ways to work successfully, to really
integrate our ideas. We have been at it for 3 hours and are
beginning to create interesting song forms. On the iVisit video
conferencing, we can see both the Cacilienschule students and
Bertram in Bremen, but it is difficult to get good audio so we
have reverted to using chat windows. Everyone here is excited. It
seems like magic to actually see and compose with our internet
friends around the globe.
ICCP Hymn | | Soest Team Mix | ICCP alternate |
8:00 AM in Oldenberg Cacilienschule Oct. 13 Live
8:00 AM in Trstena Rudolf Dilong Primary School Oct 13 Live
Second Generation
File2 June 1999
These arrangements are based on the starter midi files from
January.
Tokyo File 2
tokyo.mid starter files from Tokyo and
Germany
Oldenberg File 2
jesli.mid starter files from Canberra and
Oldenburg | tofra.mid starter files from
Slovakia | ofall3.mid starter files from
Canberra, Trstena, Oldenberg, Soest | tamkon.mid
starter file from Soest | bemlater.mid
from Oldenberg | jam-exte.mid starter
file from Oldenberg | ritajam.mid
Slovakia File 2
f2slovak.mid starter file from Germany
ASIJ Original Starter Files January 1999
Sho1
midi file (8 bars with drum fill intro) Sho2 midi file (14 bars in 3/4)
Sho1 and Sho2 are rhythmic ideas by Sho Sato, of course. sho1
uses a plunky Japanese instrument called the Shamisen (kind of
like a banjo but made with cat gut). He plays in a C# pentatonic
scale, Asian, using only black keys.
Yakimo
midi file (just melody)
Yakimo is a Japanese vendor's melody. In the fall and winter a
man drives a small truck with an open bed. On the bed he has a
fire of wood and hot stones. Amongst the stones are sweet
potatoes (yakimo) cooking. He sings this song and people know he
is near and come out and buy his potatoes as a warm snack. The
words to the melody are, "Yakimo, ishii, yakimo" and
translate to something like, "sweet potato, cooked on stone,
sweet potato"
YakimoGruv
midi file (8 bars with drum fill, yakimo melody for the phrase)
Yakigruv is the yakimo melody with "sho1" I really like
how they fit together.
Live Co-composition
ResRocket Practice December 10 1999
Our first live composition experiment was with Oldenberg. We
watched each other with CUSeeMe and composed and chatted with
ResRocket software.
Experiment Version 1
| Experiment Version 2
Partner Pages
for more details visit these pages
Oldenberg-
project originator, Canberra-
official work page, Trstena
Brent Huber- ASIJ Music Director
bhuber@asij.ac.jp