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Maki Ishii

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Maki Ishiis electronic music that is not electronic music. Electronic sounds treated as music, not as an experiment.Ripples (1965)Although an early work produced at the NHK Electronic Music Studio, this piece deliberately avoids the foregrounding and disjunction typically associated with the term electronic music. The violin, chamber ensemble, and tape sounds do not clash; instead, they act upon the very sense of time through the progression of timbre and reverberation. Ishii Makkis approachtreating electronic sounds not as privileged elements but as sound materials equivalent to those of acoustic instrumentswas already clearly established at this point.Banquet (1968)A work that thoroughly explores the relationship between electronic sounds and instrumental music at the methodological level. The sound of multiple pianos, including internal playing techniques, is electronically modulated and inter