Japanese Elm 'Mitsui Centenial'
1 sound
Current age: Semi Mature
Size at maturity: 20m
Species native to: North east Asia and Japan
Tree identification number: 0HG7
Composer name
Iason Maroulis
About the composer:
Iason Maroulis is a young Greek composer and trumpet player based in London. He is interested in the envelope of sound and in its manipulation through both acoustic and electronic means. He is trying to explore the ways that sound is produced in acoustic instruments and ways in which it can be organized in order to create sonorities and gestures, where an ensemble functions as one sound, whose members act as the different parts of this sound’s envelope.
Iason is currently an undergraduate Composition student at the Royal Academy of Music, studying with Rubens Askenar
About the tree:
These tree were a gift from the Mitsui company of Japan in 2000. Elegant spreading canopies, tolerant of dutch elm disease, and the most amazing autumn colour with foliage crossing through oranges and purples before leaf fall.
About the composition:
The only Japanese Elm tree of this part of the park that is not part of a group of Japanese Elm trees. The music for this tree develops all the sound material that I’ve used to give a specific character to this tree species. I tried to create for this tree a piece that would offer the complete experience of being inside an area with a large group of Japanese Elm trees.
