Tetsuya Hori
Artists in residence for the month of November 2022
Tetsuya Hori is a Berlin-based composer from Sapporo/Japan. His works include instrumental, vocal, electronic, ensemble, chamber and orchestral music. He compose commissioned works for various performing musicians, chamber and symphony orchestra. In addition to that, he teaches composition at various schools and universities in Europe, Asia and North America. In 2019 he launched his own label “M.M. Recordings” and has released a lot of music with various musicians around the world. He also has been the recipient of special prize from Showa University of Music, special mention from International Music Prize for Excellence in Composition 2011, the Best CD Album of 2011 by foxy digitalis, Semi- Finalist of the 2012 Queen Elisabeth Composition Competition in Belgium and the winner of Orchestral Masters Vol.10 by ABLAZE Records so far.
I always think the composition is actually not the task of creating sounds, but the task of listening to sounds from everywhere. And these sounds are in the vast landscape of Iceland, in this town, or every little events in my daily life for example. It is not necessary to listen to the sounds from the ears, but the information obtained from the eyes is also converted into sounds and listenable. Then I interpret them through the filters inside me and write down the notes on the paper in the end. Composition is like drawing a picture on canvas. At first, I need to decide the size of the canvas, then paint the base color on the whole, then draw by the bird’s-eye view and by watching details. So, I repeat these steps toward the final double bar, the end of the music.
Website: www.tetsuyahori.de , mm-recordings.com
