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Yuasa Joji

湯浅 譲二

Yuasa Joji
Born 1929

Composer

Joji Yuasa, born in 1929 in Koriyama, Japan, is self-taught as a composer. During his undergraduate studies as a premedical student at Keio University, he became interested in music, eventually devoting all his time to the study of composition in the group "Experimental Workshop" in Tokyo (1952). Since then, Yuasa has been active in a wide range of compositional media, including orchestral, chamber, choral, theater, electronic, and computer music, as well as mixed media. His music has been performed at such prestigious festivals as the ISCM World Music Days, the Warsaw Autumn, and the New York Philharmonic's Horizon '84. Since 1981, he has been Professor of Composition at the University of California, San Diego. Among his most recent works are the electronic composition A Study in White (1987), and Nine Levels by Ze-Ami, for quadraphonic computer-generated tape and seventeen instruments (1988), which was commissioned by IRCAM.

Composed or Arranged

Koto Compositions
Title Kanji Year Alternate Title
Cosmos Haptic No. 3 - Kokuh 内触覚的宇宙 第三番 虚空


Koto uta Basho's 5 Haiku 箏歌、芭蕉五句