prodige de l'air was composed for harp and IRCAM Signal Processing Workstation (ISPW) in October of 1998. For this time, the computer part is arranged to MAX/MSP. This piece has four sections and the harp leads the piece in general. In playing the harp, six special ways, using harmonics, beating the sounding board directly after plucking the string, striking on the steel strings with open hand, striking on the sounding board with fingertips or knuckle, and changing the pedal of the sounding note gradually, were used. The computer program, which was implemented on Max for real-time signal processing, always processes and responds to the harp performance, by executing more than six kinds of digital signal processing, cross-synthesis, granular synthesis, FFT, cross-feed-back, variable delay, and other acoustic effects. And the program played back recorded two harp performances along to the real performance.

--- from ICMC'99 Proceedings

Citation

• ICMC99 Reviews by Judith Shatin

Released

1. Sep, 2000, "9111281730" - Interactive Computer Music with MAX Real-Time Signal Processing (CD)
   • copyright : Sonology Department of Kunitachi College of Music
   • harp : Ailing SAI, Kunitachi College of Music

Performance Data

1. Dec 19, 1999, Music Art with Computers by young creators from KCM Sonology in "MUSES-4 '99"
   • at Saga-cho Exhibit Space, Tokyo
   • harp : Ailing SAI
2. Oct 27, 1999, International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) '99
   • at Chin-Kha University, Beijing
   • harp : Ailing SAI
3. Nov 11, 1998, Try-Out Concert VIII (Premiere)
   • at Kunitachi College of Music, Tokyo
   • harp : Toshiko OKUDA, Tokyo College of Music