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Creative Music Forum: Music of Akira Takaoka

Creative Music Forum: Music of Akira Takaoka

9/13/2012
5:15 pm – 6:45 pm
Hallgarten Hall Seminar Room
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Performances
.MUSIC, DIGITALMUSIC. Akira Takaoka, born in Tokyo, Japan, is a composer and music theorist, currently Professor of Music at the College of the Arts, Tamagawa University in Tokyo, Japan, where he teaches composition, atonal theory, advanced chromatic harmony, counterpoint, computer music, algorithmic composition, and Java programming. He is also Lecturer and Research Associate at the Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Chuo University in Tokyo, Japan, where he teaches music theory and directs research projects on music information retrieval.

His compositions have been selected for performance at major festivals throughout the world such as those of ISCM World Music Days, ICMC, SEAMUS, and SMC. As a music theorist, he specializes in algorithmic composition, atonal theory, and methodological issues such as that of metaphor and has read papers at professional conferences such as those of the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition and the Society for Music Perception and Cognition conference, and ICMC.

He studied music theory with Jonathan D. Kramer, Joseph Dubiel, and Jeff Nichols, computer music with Brad Garton and Mara Helmuth, composition with Masayuki Nagatomi, Kazumi Yanai, and Joseph Dubiel, piano with Niels Ostbye, musicology with Hiroshi Nakano and Walter Frisch, and philosophy with Akira Oide and Isaac Levi. He received a BA and an MA in philosophy from Keio University in Tokyo, Japan and an MA, an MPhil, and a PhD in music from Columbia University in New York, where he was a Fulbright scholar. "

This event is part of Year of the Arts at Dartmouth.
Image: Akira Takaoka

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Spencer Topel
603-646-2853
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