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Dai Fujikura - PoyoPoyo for solo horn by Dai Fujikura

from Japanese Music Now by Dai Fujikura, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Sayo Kosugi, Kenji Sakai

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In Japanese the word PoyoPoyo describes something soft and squidgy, with a velvety texture - like the cheek of a four month old baby, which is how old my daughter was when I wrote this work. I experimented with the horn player Nobuaki Fukukawa, for whom the work was written, as I wanted to find a sound which is the antithesis of the stereotypical horn sound. To me the horn often sounds big and macho, and plays fanfare-like music. I looked for sensitive, quiet, soft, and poetic sounds to symbolise poyopoyo. I experimented with the player over online video conferencing to get this effect. We settled on using a bass trombone harmon mute or a specially made harmon mute for horn. The player can open or close the mute with his hand to make the wah-wah effect, and throughout this piece the speed of this wah-wah effect varies to represent poyopoyo.
--Dai Fujikura (edited by Harry Ross)

credits

from Japanese Music Now, released July 25, 2018
Composed by Dai Fujikura (2012)
Joe Berger, horn

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