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「フレディの墓／インターナショナル」 (2009) by フォルマント兄弟

Le Tombeau de Freddie / L'Internationale (2009)

Awarded Prix Ars Electronica 2009 Honorary Mention in Digital Music
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Formant Brothers is a composition cooperative started by Nobuyasu Sakonda and Masahiro Miwa in 2000. With regards to Le Tombeau de Freddie / L'Internationale, they assert the fact that a famous Rock Star, Freddie-M, did actually sing The Internationale in Japanese, and they do so with the justification that we simply believe the "fact" that any recorded music is a trace of an original event "which-has-been-there" in the real world. This is the first pop-song which is sung by a specters voice, synthesized by their original realtime-formant-synthesis technique, and which is based on their discussion on the ontology of music, as it is mediated by todays technologies.

Credit;
Concept by the Formant Brothers
(Nobuyasu Sakonda & Masahiro Miwa)
Acoustic Realization by Nobuyasu Sakonda
(based on a Song composed by Pierre C. Degeyter in 1888)
Music Video by Hiromitsu Murakami
Special Thanks to:
Robert Darroll (Translation)
Kazuhisa Uchihashi (E-Guitar)
Takehiko Kameda (Mix engineering)
copyright©2009 Formant Brothers (Nobuyasu Sakonda & Masahiro Miwa)