SAKANA - Dai Fujikura

SAKANA (2007) by Dai Fujikura Sam Alvarez, tenor saxophone Recorded on June 2nd, 2023 in Alice Millar Chapel. Program Note by composer: The title SAKANA comes from the word "fish" in Japanese. In this piece, I imagined light reflecting off of fishes bodies as they move around in water - sometimes smoothly and sometimes with rapid movement. I wanted this piece to be one large phrase, which is made out of multiphonics and notes, including quarter tones, which are broken down from multiphonics. Some of the fast rhythmic passages become tremolo, in other words these rhythmic passages are rhythmisized tremolo, and will transform smoothly into the multiphonics with the phrases as a part of big line. SAKANA has a peculiar feeling, the tempo is fast, though I regard it as slow music. There is a lot of action if you are standing near to this piece, however, if you are "looking" from afar, it is a slow moving fish....