​MISE-EN x ARETE 2026 Concert Series: “Environs”

The Environs series  invites audiences into a series of introspective microcosms through deep listening, field recording explorations, experimental electronics and chamber music. Featured artists are Vivienne Aerts, Melinda Faylor, Hitomi Honda, Akio Makuno, and Charles Waters as well as pianist and composer Steven Long for two nights of his Graphic Content Festival celebrating the centennial of both Morton Feldman and Earle Brown.

Mullaly Park and electroacoustic improvisation duo as Unsamble GENDAI

Akio Mokuno’s  piano solo work Mullaly Park 9/10 

Performed by Hitomi Honda, piano

“Mullaly Park 09/10 is a piece for piano and electronic sounds. It was composed (reconstructed) based on a field recording I made while I was taking a short walk around my neighborhood in the Bronx, New York, on the evening of September 10, 2013. The field recording captured and magnified the sounds that I hear unconsciously in my everyday life. Blowing wind, cars passing by, detonating Salsa from a car stereo,people’s chats, kids playing ball, plastic bottles rolling on the ground,klaxons, sirens, construction, trains, and women yelling angrily—these sounds came and went while other sounds occurring farther away created a distant backdrop. Some were repetitive and some were abrupt.” 

“When listening closely and reexamining the sounds and their interactions with my memory, the whole became a kind of perceptual sonic fantasy that transformed into music. In the state of deep listening and through my own psychoacoustic interpretation, the daily environmental noise was translated into piano. The passages are inspired by the found sounds that came and passed during the walk, and those aural experiences have been modified by focusing on spatial aspects through my own personal associations.” – Akio Mokuno

As Unsamble GENDAI – Akio electronic + other sounds / Hitomi piano improvisation.