Jo Kondo
Homo Audiens (Book)
Jo Kondo – one of Japan’s most celebrated living composers – sets out his conception of music as a ‘shared object of listening’, an ultimately hopeful vision of music as a purposeless – non-instrumentalised – activity that brings together composers, performers, and audiences as equal partners in the shared creativity of listening. At once an exploration and critique of the aesthetics of absolute music from German Romanticism to the present day as well as an argument for diversity in both interpr…
Syzygia, Snow's Falling / Pine Cones Fall
** 2021 Stock ** CP² Recordings presents Syzygia and Snow's Falling by Jo Kondo; Pine Cones Fall by Craig Pepples. Performed by Ensemble Nomad; Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus, Satoko Inoue, piano; Paul Zukofsky, conductor. All recordings were made at Avaco Creative Studio, Tokyo, Japan; 'Syzygia' and 'Pine Cones Fall' were recorded on June 9, 2016 and 'Snow's Falling' on June 15, 2016. Recording Engineer: Yukio Kojima; Mastering Engineer and Editing: Jun Kawanami.
Mulberry / In the Woods / In Summer / Under the Umbrella
** 2021 Stock ** CP² Recordings presents Mulberry / In the Woods / In Summer / Under the Umbrella by Jo Kondo. Performed by Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Paul Zukofsky, conductor; Nexus. Mulberry, In the Woods, and In Summer are edited versions (also including some rehearsal takes) of the "Jo Kondo Composer's Portrait Concert" of October 7, 2004, held in Suntory Hall, Tokyo, Japan. Recording Engineer: Yukio Kojima. Edited and mastered by Paul Zinman at SoundByte Productions, Inc., NYC. …
Hagoromo
** 2021 Stock ** CP² Recordings presents Jo Kondo: Hagoromo. Performed By Teresa Shaw, Mezzo-soprano; Tomoko Shiota, Narrator; London Sinfonietta; Paul Zukofsky, Conductor. Written under commission from the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and premiered there June 13, 1994. Publisher: University of York Music Press (U.K.) Recorded March 25, 2002 at Abbey Road Studio 2, London, England. Produced and engineered by Paul Zinman. Assistant engineers: Roland Heap, Chris Clark. Edited, mixed and mastered by…
Satoko Inoue Presents Jo Kondo's New Works For Piano
The second album of piano works from Japanese composer Jo Kondo performed by pianist Satoko Inoue--a noted interpreter of solo works by Feldman, Ferrari, and Cage--here presenting all of Kondo's works for solo piano written from 2001 to 2012, alongside two early works from 1975, exploring a wealth of harmonic, rhythmic, and conceptual ideas from a diversity of projects.
Sen No Ongaku
Legendary debut album from Japanese composer Jo Kondo, originally released in 1974 on the highly collectable ALM Records label (East Bionic Symphonia, Takehisa Kosugi, Somei Satoh, Yuji Takahashi, John Cage, Akio Suzuki). Since the early 1970s, Jo Kondo's compositions have stood on a concept he has named "Sen no Ongaku" (i.e. "Linear Music"), music consisting of a "line" of single notes, hocketted over different instruments. Over the years, the "line" of notes has gradually evolved a much thicke…