PROGRAM NOTES

    Night Ascends from the Ear like a Butterfly, composed in 1999 and
dedicated to my grandmother, Tami, was inspired from Haruo Shibuya's
poem, Coliseum in the Desert.  The words Shibuya uses in this poem
such as ënight,í ëa time of music,í ërain,í ëblack fountain,í ëpiano
string,í ëuseless choirí and ëbutterflyí gave me compositional
ideas.  These images were developed in my imagination separately from
Shibuya's poem, and they were transformed into music.  To me it is
very interesting that once one finishes a piece, it leaves the
creator, and it grows inside somebody on its own, maybe or maybe not
as same as the creator's mind.  The piece has its own life.  I hope
my piece has left me...

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SHORT BIO

Hideko Kawamoto, born in Japan, is an active composer in both
electro-acoustic and acoustic music.  Her works have been performed
internationally and awarded from the Pierre Schaeffer International
Computer Music Competition (Italy) for the Second Prize, Luigi
Russolo International Competition (Italy) for a finalist, and Sonic
Circuits VII International Festival Electronic Music Art (USA).
Currently she is a doctoral candidate and a teaching fellow in
composition, studying with Phil Winsor at the University of North
Texas, where she received the B.M. and M.M. in piano performance.
Her music is published by the Whole>Sum Productions (C. Alan
Publications) and can be heard  on the innova label.