Beschreibung

Programm Notes

Gz is an abbreviation of the German word Gestaltzerfall, or „shape decomposition“, a psychological phenomenon where one experiences a temporary loss of the ability to recognize certain letters, perticularly often experienced in Japanese Kanji, the characters that originally come from China. The works in my Gz series – all scored for two instruments – explore the plausible affects of the psychological phenomenon: uncertaintly, doubt, impermanence, loss, and the will to break away from them through an attempt at recovering the memory.

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– Yoshiaki Onishi