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42. Japanese Society for Electronic Music (JSEM) Concert—A Tribute Celebrating Iannis Xenakis’s Centennial

Mikako Mizuno

On 9 December 2022, a monumental year for the Japanese Society of Electronic Music (JSEM), marking our thirtieth anniversary, a concert at the Shibuya Densyo Hall in Japan featured an opening lecture by Takehito Shimazu, the diffusion of the eight prize-winning pieces of the First UPISketch Competition,1 and the world premieres of five new pieces composed by JSEM composers and dedicated to Iannis Xenakis. The five new pieces composed by JSEM composers, dedicated to Xenakis, are embedded below.

Media 42.1 Kyohei Hayashi, Galactic Blood (fixed audio-visual), 2022. Reproduced with permission from the composer.
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12434/f5230631

Media 42.2 Masafumi Oda, Vertigo (fixed audio-visual), 2022. Reproduced with permission from the composer.
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12434/8677c154

Media 42.3 Osamu Kadowaki, measure space X (fixed audio), 2022. Reproduced with permission from the composer.
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12434/705ec08f

Media 42.4 Satoshi Fukushima: uncountable structures I (fixed audio), 2022. Reproduced with permission from the composer.
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12434/918568c1

Media 42.5 Mikako Mizuno, Rosehip Surface (fixed audio), 2022. Reproduced with permission from the composer.
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12434/eeeb65aa

A poster with Japanese text announcing an event by JSME for their 30th anniversary. The poster details a symposium and concert on November 13, 2022. The background features abstract, monochromatic feather-like designs.

Fig. 42.1 Program of 9 December 2022. JSEM concert dedicated to Xenakis.2


  1. 1 “Open Calls,” Meta-Xenakis, https://meta-xenakis.org/open-calls/#upisketch

  2. 2 “About JSEM” (2011), Japanese Society for Electronic Music, https://jsem.sakura.ne.jp

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