Japanese Elm 'Mitsui Centenial'
1 sound
Current age: Early Mature
Size at maturity: 20m
Species native to: North east Asia and Japan
Tree identification number: 0HW6
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:
This tree, together with the neighboring ones, form a group that through their foliage create the illusion of a natural closed space which invites you to delve in it. Based on this, I tried to create an experience which would encourage the audience to move around this “natural space” and explore it. As someone moves deeper in this natural space, and the shadow of the trees’ foliage becomes thicker they will come across more gestural sounds and richer sonorities.
