OVX001 : Mana Fukui / Vexations Vol.1

 

Cover art by A.L.

This is the new Vexations series! 

A few weeks ago Mana Fukui and different artists played Vexations by Erik Satie the number he required : 840 times. After a few emails exchanges with Wataru Iwata (see OJP039), it grew more and more that it would be a thrill and exciting project to possibly record the whole performances from the participants. Point is that it’s impossible to put a 15-20 hours piece of music on line. 

So, in this year 2021, we came with this idea: 21 different artists recording the pice 40 times = 840!
So from the 21st week of 2021, which is also the week of Satie's 155 birthday and for the next 21 weeks, one of the 21 volumes will be released on a special Bandcamp page.
Only one demand: each participant plays the piece 40 times on any instruments of their choice, tempo or arrangement they want. Enjoy!

OVX001 : Mana Fukui / Vexations Vol.1

What Mana says about her proposal and the recording:

"First of all, I would like to thank and acknowledge Wataru IWATA and Alain LEFEBVRE who carried out this project.
It is a recording in ambisonics with our cat who makes a noise running around the house, very rare and unique... I am really happy to be part of this great team with crazy compatriots all over the world, and maybe this great adventure will continue...? Who knows."

Mana Fukui: piano

Wataru Iwata: recording and processing

Recorded by 1st order ambisonics decoding to Binaural. 

Recommended to listen on a headphone or earphone.

Mana Fukui

Mana FUKUI is a concert and chamber pianist; she studied and graduated at the prestigious Tōhō Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo, Japan. She won many national competitions, studied piano with Minoru NOJIMA and Akira IMAI and composition with Ichiro NODAIRA.
After training in Russia with Neta GAVRILOV and the teachers of the Moscow Conservatory, Mana FUKUI then decided, on Jean-François HEISSER’s recommendations, to improve her knowledge of the French repertoire in Paris.
On her arrival in France, she worked with Colette ZERAH and Jean KOERNER on accompaniment and started her professional career as a piano accompanist for Vadim REPIN’s and Ida HAENDEL’s Master Classes.
She won the First Prize as piano soloist and accompanist unanimously with compliments of the jury in the examinations of the Paris Conservatory in 2001.
Mana FUKUI has been pianist for the UFAM Competitions in Paris since 2005 and for gthe examinations for the State Diploma of Singing, Violin and Viola of the French Ministry of Culture. She takes part in many festivals (Courchevel, Limousin, etc.) as an accompanist, and has been working as such at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Départemental of Clamart, France, since 2002.
Her official website.

福井真菜（ピアニスト）

桐朋学園大学ピアノ科在学中、モスクワに留学、ネータ・ガブリーロフ氏に師事。同大学卒業後、パリ１７区コンセルヴァトワールピアノ科、伴奏科を満場一致のプルミエ・プリで卒業したのち、クラマール地方音楽院にて室内楽、声楽クラスの指導、また、シャラントン音楽院にてピアノ科教授として後進の指導にあたる。

　現代音楽にも意欲的に取り組み、シャラントン市後援の現代音楽祭、“Musique de notre temps” に定期的に参加。また、高い初見能力、室内楽の豊富なレパートリーを高く評価され、フランス政府国家音楽家資格試験（DEM)、ワディム・レーピン、イダ・ヘンデル等著名な講師陣の指導する数々の国際フェスティヴァル、コンクール等で公式伴奏員を務めつつ、パリを拠点にヨーロッパ各地でリサイタル、室内楽を中心に演奏活動を行う。

　2015年に帰国後、演奏活動を精力的に行い、2018年7月、東京オペラシティにてソロリサイタルを開催し、好評を博す。ピアノを今井顕、野島稔、コレット・ゼラ、ピアノ伴奏法を野平一郎、ジャン・ケルネルの各氏に師事。

Her official website.

Bandcamp only release on the 26th of May 2021.

Track listing:

1: 40x Vexations - Piano and processing (recorded in ambisonics, decoded to binaural)