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Piano: Yosuke Yamashita

Drum: Yoshisaburo "Sabu" Toyozumi

Saxphone: Seiichi Nakamura

Bass: Motoharu Yoshizawa

Chant: Akaji Maro

In 1971, Yuasa composed another instrumental chamber music work, Inter-posi-play-tion for flute, piano and two percussionists followed in 1973 by Inter-posi-play-tion II for flute, harp and percussion. The title expresses the theme to be investigated in these works, a theme perhaps tied to the recurrent instrumental virtuosity explored in these years but certainly a theme of interest in terms of the relations already looked at in Interpenetration. In this work, what is explored is the interactive relationship that is created between the performers, constituted as relationships of meaning between different materials of musical language at the players’ disposal. In most of Interposi-play-tion the performers decide on musical matters as the score itself only indicates rest lengths, the number and the attack and length of sound events. The piece is able to maintain this “playing at the heart of a reciprocal placing” by concentrating on the sound object in which, “rests are intervals in which there is collected energy which is then redirected toward the next entry.”

Luciana Galliano - The Music of Joji Yuasa (2012)