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Joji Yuasa

ゆあさ じょうじ

Yuasa Jōji

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1929-08-12 （Kōriyama, Fukushima, Japan）
死没
2024-07-21 （Tokyo, Japan (home)） 94歳
国籍
Japan
言語
Japanese, English
居住地歴
Kōriyama, Fukushima, Japan → Tokyo, Japan (residence and activity) → San Diego, California, USA

経歴

職業
Composer, Educator, Music writer
活動期間
1951年〜2024年
所属
University of California, San Diego (faculty, emeritus professor), Nihon University College of Art (visiting professor), Tokyo College of Music (visiting professor), Toho Gakuen University (special-appointed professor), International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) — honorary member, Keio University Art Center (visiting fellow)
所属団体
International Society for Contemporary Music (honorary member)
影響を受けた人物
Shūzō Takiguchi, Ichiji Nakata (teacher, briefly), Toru Takemitsu (contemporary collaborator/influence)
影響を与えた人物
Mamoru Fujieda, Hiroyuki Ito, Noriko Hisada, Manabu Nakahashi, Julian Yu

学歴

Keio University (Faculty of Medicine, liberal arts courses)
Faculty of Medicine (left before graduation)
期間: 1948-1951
国: Japan
Left medical faculty liberal arts courses to pursue composition

受賞歴

Berlin International Film Festival — Special Jury Prize
1961
対象作品: TV work 'Beauty of Japan: Buddhas'
主催: Berlin International Film Festival
結果: 受賞
Prix Italia
1966
対象作品: Radio drama 'Comet Ikeya'
主催: Prix Italia
結果: 受賞
San Marco Golden Lion (film award)
1967
対象作品: Film 'Mothers'
主催: San Marco (Golden Lion)
結果: 受賞
Otaka Prize
1973
対象作品: Chronoplastic
主催: Otaka Foundation (music)
結果: 受賞
Agency for Cultural Affairs Arts Festival — Grand Prize (radio)
1973
対象作品: Chronoplastic
部門: ラジオ部門
主催: Agency for Cultural Affairs (Japan)
結果: 受賞
Agency for Cultural Affairs Arts Festival — Grand Prize (radio)
1983
対象作品: Perspectography for Orchestra
部門: ラジオ部門
主催: Agency for Cultural Affairs (Japan)
結果: 受賞
Otaka Prize
1987
対象作品: Time Enlightened (for viola and orchestra)
主催: Otaka Foundation (music)
結果: 受賞
Kyoto Music Award — Grand Prize
1995
主催: Kyoto Music Award
結果: 受賞
Suntory Music Award
1996
対象作品: Violin Concerto
主催: Suntory
結果: 受賞
Order of the Purple Ribbon
1997
主催: Government of Japan
結果: 叙勲受章
Japan Art Academy Prize & Imperial Prize
1999
主催: Japan Art Academy
結果: 受賞
Japan Academy Prize — Best Music
2000
対象作品: Film 'Owl's Castle'
部門: 映画音楽
主催: Japan Academy Prize Association
結果: 受賞
Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays
2007
主催: Government of Japan
結果: 叙勲受章
Person of Cultural Merit
2014
主催: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan)
結果: 顕彰
Otaka Prize
2024
対象作品: Elegy - for my wife, Reiko -
主催: Otaka Foundation (music)
結果: 受賞

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Projection for Koto and Orchestra 'Kachōfūgetsu'

1967年 Orchestral (contemporary music)

A projection piece combining koto with Western orchestra, merging Japanese timbres with contemporary techniques.

Japanese motifsacoustic spaceprojection

Chronoplastic I

1972年 Orchestral / experimental

One of his representative pieces exploring temporal transformation of sound; notable in both recorded and live performance contexts.

temporalitysound transformation

Interoceptive Universe (series)

1957年 Piano / contemporary music

A long-running series reflecting his conception of sound as an acoustic-energy body.

acoustic energycosmology

Violin Concerto 'In Memory of Toru Takemitsu'

1996年 Concerto

A concerto dedicated to Toru Takemitsu, premiered in 1996 and widely acclaimed (including Suntory Music Award recognition).

memorialEast-West synthesis

全著作

  • Life's Midpoint — Toward an Open Horizon of Music. Keio University Press, 1999
  • Contemporary Japanese Music 18: Joji Yuasa. Shunjusha, 2007
  • The Unheard Universe, Adventures in Composition (co-authored with Akira Nishimura). Shunjusha, 2008
  • Neuroscience and Art (co-authored). Kōbōsha, 2008

作風・主題

文体
Descriptive/spatial approach treating sound as an energy bodyExperimental methods crossing electronic music and traditional instruments
頻出モチーフ
Use of 'Projection' in titlesCosmology (integration of personal, historical, ethnic elements)Quotations or references to haiku/Japanese textures

健康

  • Pneumonia
    2024-07（罹患〜死去）
    Died at home in Tokyo in July 2024 from pneumonia. The illness was a proximate cause of his death and the end of active work.

評価・遺産

One of postwar Japan's leading contemporary composers. A pioneer in electronic music whose teaching and international work influenced a generation of composers.

関連学会

  • Japan Art Academy
  • International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM)

資料所蔵先

  • National Diet Library (related materials and recordings)
  • Various music publishers and university archives (manuscripts, scores)

大衆文化への影響

  • TV drama themes and scores (e.g., NHK serial 'Ai yori Aoku')
  • Commercial music (Kewpie, Yamaha, Yebisu Beer, etc.)

引用

  • For me, music is the spatial and temporal progression of an acoustic-energy body.
    出典: Joji Yuasa, Life's Midpoint — Toward an Open Horizon of Music, 1999 (1999年)

豆知識

  • Born into a family of physicians; originally intended to become a surgeon and entered Keio University Medical Faculty but left to pursue composition.
  • An early pioneer of electronic and computer music in Japan, working with UPIC and MUSIC-N systems.
  • 'Subliminal Hey J' is a title combining The Beatles' 'Hey Jude' and his own name Joji.