241 research outputs found
Kira Kira ‘Bright Force’ Australia/New Zealand Tour 2018: Canberra
No full textThis performance took place during a tour by Alister Spence, Satoko Fujii, and Natsuki Tamura to promote the release of their CD recording 'Bright Force' (Libra records).
This performance was a demonstration of the research in music composition and performance undertaken by Dr Alister Spence from UNSW, and musician colleagues, Satoko Fujii and Natsuki Tamura from Japan, performing the 'Bright Force' work together as the Kira Kira project. This research investigates the agency of contingency in intercultural, inter-genre, music making, and the continuum between composition and improvisation. (What I have termed the Experimental Composition, Improvisation Continuum or ECIC.
'Bright Force'
No full textThis audio recording documents the ongoing research of Dr Alister Spence, lecturer at UNSW, with musical colleagues, Satoko Fujii, and Natsuki Tamura, performing together as the project named Kira Kira. This research investigates the agency of contingency in intercultural, inter-genre, music making, and the continuum between composition and improvisation. (What I have termed the Experimental Composition, Improvisation Continuum or ECIC.)
The details for the recording are as follows:
‘Bright Force’
Natsuki Tamura – trumpet
Alister Spence – rhodes electric piano, effects pedals, and preparations
Satoko Fujii – piano
Ittetsu Takemura – drums
Track list:
1. ’Because of the sun’ (Spence) – 9’42”
2. ‘Nat 4’ (Tamura) – 13’18”
3. ‘Luna Lionfish 1’ (Fujii) – 09’11”
4. ‘Luna Lionfish 2’ (Fujii) – 12’14”
5. ‘’Lunar Lionfish 3 (Fujii) – 13’51”
“Luna Lionfish” is composed by Satoko Fujii (BMI)
“Because of the Sun” is composed by Alister Spence (APRA)
“Nat 4” is composed by Natsuki Tamura (BMI)
Recorded at Knuttelhouse, Tokyo on September 12, 2017 by Masataka Fujikake, supported by Takanori Terabe. Mixed in Sydney on October 25, 2017 by Tim Whitten. Mastered at Systems Two, New York City, New York on January 18, 2018 by Max Ross.
CD released 27th April 2018 on Libra Records (Libra 204-048)
www.librarecords.co
'Sensaround' (Spence/MacDonald/Ahmad) Japan tour concert, with special guests Satoko Fujii (piano) and Natsuki Tamura (trumpet)
No full textThis performance took place as part of a tour by 'Sensaround' in Japan in 2016. Spence/MacDonald and Ahmad are committed to exploring how contingency acts on collective improvisation and real-time composition to produce surprising, unpremeditated and effective results. This includes new as well as established and intercultural collaborations, as occurred at Guggenheim House with well known Japanese composers and improvisersr, Satoko Fujii and Natsuki Tamura. The research area matches with Spence's investigation of the Experimental Composition Improvisation Continuum which explores contemporary extensions of the historical Experimental Music Movement and reconciled with Jazz through the writings of Nyman, Lewis, Bailey, Morris etc
Kira Kira ‘Bright Force’ Australia/New Zealand Tour 2018: Auckland
No full textThis performance took place during a tour by Alister Spence, Satoko Fujii, and Natsuki Tamura to promote the release of their CD recording 'Bright Force' (Libra records).
This performance was a demonstration of the research in music composition and performance undertaken by Dr Alister Spence from UNSW, and musician colleagues, Satoko Fujii and Natsuki Tamura from Japan, performing the ‘Bright Force’ work together as the Kira Kira project. This research investigates the agency of contingency in intercultural, inter-genre, music making, and the continuum between composition and improvisation. (What I have termed the Experimental Composition, Improvisation Continuum or ECIC.
Kira Kira ‘Bright Force’ Australia/New Zealand Tour 2018: Sydney International Women's Jazz Festival 2018
No full textThis performance took place during a tour by Alister Spence, Satoko Fujii, and Natsuki Tamura to promote the release of their CD recording 'Bright Force' (Libra records).
This performance was a demonstration of the research in music composition and performance undertaken by Dr Alister Spence from UNSW, and musician colleagues, Satoko Fujii and Natsuki Tamura from Japan, performing the 'Bright Force' work together as the Kira Kira project. This research investigates the agency of contingency in intercultural, inter-genre, music making, and the continuum between composition and improvisation. (What I have termed the Experimental Composition, Improvisation Continuum or ECIC.
Kira Kira ‘Bright Force’ Australia/New Zealand Tour 2018: Melbourne
No full textThis performance took place during a tour by Alister Spence, Satoko Fujii, and Natsuki Tamura to promote the release of their CD recording 'Bright Force' (Libra records).
This performance was a demonstration of the research in music composition and performance undertaken by Dr Alister Spence from UNSW, and musician colleagues, Satoko Fujii and Natsuki Tamura from Japan, performing the 'Bright Force' work together as the Kira Kira project. This research investigates the agency of contingency in intercultural, inter-genre, music making, and the continuum between composition and improvisation. (What I have termed the Experimental Composition, Improvisation Continuum or ECIC.
Kira Kira 'Bright Force' Australia/New Zealand Tour 2018: Adelaide
No full textThis performance took place during a tour by Alister Spence, Satoko Fujii, and Natsuki Tamura to promote the release of their CD recording 'Bright Force' (Libra records).
This performance was a demonstration of the research in music composition and performance undertaken by Dr Alister Spence from UNSW, and musician colleagues, Satoko Fujii and Natsuki Tamura from Japan, performing the 'Bright Force' work together as the Kira Kira project. This research investigates the agency of contingency in intercultural, inter-genre, music making, and the continuum between composition and improvisation. (What I have termed the Experimental Composition, Improvisation Continuum or ECIC.
Kira Kira ‘Bright Force’ Australia/New Zealand Tour 2018: Newcastle
No full textThis performance took place during a tour by Alister Spence, Satoko Fujii, and Natsuki Tamura to promote the release of their CD recording 'Bright Force' (Libra records).
This performance was a demonstration of the research in music composition and performance undertaken by Dr Alister Spence from UNSW, and musician colleagues, Satoko Fujii and Natsuki Tamura from Japan, performing the 'Bright Force' work together as the Kira Kira project. This research investigates the agency of contingency in intercultural, inter-genre, music making, and the continuum between composition and improvisation. (What I have termed the Experimental Composition, Improvisation Continuum or ECIC.
Scaling, proximity, and optimization of integrally convex functions
No full textIn discrete convex analysis, the scaling and proximity properties for the class of L♮-convex functions were established more than a decade ago and have been used to design efficient minimization algorithms. For the larger class of integrally convex functions of n variables, we show here that the scaling property only holds when n≤2, while a proximity theorem can be established for any n, but only with a superexponential bound. This is, however, sufficient to extend the classical logarithmic complexity result for minimizing a discrete convex function of one variable to the case of integrally convex functions of any fixed number of variables
Discrete Midpoint Convexity
No full textFor a function defined on the integer lattice, we consider discrete versions of midpoint convexity, which offer a unifying framework for discrete convexity of functions, including integral convexity, L-(sic)-convexity, and submodularity. By considering discrete midpoint convexity for all pairs at l(infinity)-distance equal to 2 or not smaller than 2, we identify new classes of discrete convex functions, called locally and globally discrete midpoint convex functions. These functions enjoy nice structural properties. They are stable under scaling and addition and satisfy a family of inequalities named parallelogram inequalities. Furthermore, they admit a proximity theorem with the same small proximity bound as that for L-(sic)-convex functions. These structural properties allow us to develop an algorithm for the minimization of locally and globally discrete midpoint convex functions based on the proximity-scaling approach and on a novel 2-neighborhood steepest descent algorithm
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