Yuri UMEMOTO / 梅本佑利 - 'Moe² Girl' for cello and wav performed by Kei Yamazawa / 山澤慧, cello Recorded at "Mind Tree Vol.8" Tokyo Concerts Lab. on 22nd of September 2022 to buy score: email: [email protected] or https://www.yuriumemoto.com/ 'Moe²Girl', 'Moe²Girl # 2' (2022) is a series of pieces for instrument(s) and wav sound sources. The sound sources were created by editing on a DAW some lines in "anime voice" that were recorded in collaboration with voice actors. The solo instrument mimics or shifts the pitch of the sound source. In addition to treating lines recognizable as words or sentences in the manner of "speech melody," reductive (as sound itself) anime voice material is used throughout, in which the pronunciation is chopped at the vowel point one note at a time, losing the meaning of the words. In 'Moe² Girl,' the former technique is used throughout the piece, while # 2 consists solely of the latter. The purpose of this work is to musically present the "sound object" of words uttered in the Japanese "anime voice" or "moe voice". The Japanese Internet culture known as "otoMAD," which uses material sampled from existing anime, games, etc., has greatly influenced this works. In addition, the "speech melody" technique*) treated in 'Moe² Girl' is directly influenced by Steve Reich and Jacob ter Veldhuis (Jacob TV). It basically imitates the pitch of microtonal speech with instrumental tonalities, as used by Steve Reich in "Different Trains" (1988), but in this work, no coherent "story" is intended, spun by the words used and the concatenation of words. 'Moe²Girl' was an experiment to explore the possibility of incorporating materials such as "anime voices," "moe voices," and "girls(shoujo) voices" into musical expression, and the semantic content of the words was used almost directly in the music. In # 2, however, the semantic content was pulled out and converted into semiotic content by thoroughly mutilating the words. By presenting these symbols with an excessive amount of information, the artist sought the possibility for the listener to reinterpret the material in a constructionist/constructivist way. For the artist, "moe" and "girl"(shoujo) here have no substance. September 14, 2022 Yuri Umemoto *) The "speech melody" method used in Western music is almost synonymous with the method called "speech intonation composition" in "otoMAD". ~~~ web: https://www.yuriumemoto.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/yuriumemoto/ SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/yuri-umemoto/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yuri_umemoto/ This video is protected by copyright and/or related rights. Viewing and sharing this link is permitted only for non-commercial uses.