The unique activity of our students
 
 

Harmony played on three keyboards!
AUGMENT, the first university club in to devote itself to the electone


Takayuki Yamamoto
The spokesperson of the electone club AUGMENT
2nd-year student at the School of Science and Engineering

 
     
 

An electrical instrument with keyboards for your right hand, your left hand, and one more for your foot. This is the electone. What is different from other keyboards is that various sounds can be played on each key and percussion can be played automatically. One electone can even play a piece like a whole orchestra. Because it has many different types of sound, the instrument enables us to play many different kinds of music. From classical music to jazz, popular, fusion, rock, metal?we can enjoy them all using the electone.

Because it is such an all-round instrument, it seems like the electone is an instrument only for solos, but the activity of the electone club AUGMENT is actually based on ensembles.
Relay ensembles are the major feature of the concerts we hold several times a year. Every member of the club, nearly eighty players successively play more than ten numbers of melody related to one theme. This original specialty by AUGMENT can be seen only in this concert.

A tightly scheduled training camp is held for this relay ensemble. The members practice nearly 24 hours a day for four days, hardly sleeping. It is hard to play even a few bars properly unless there is perfect harmony among the players in the relay ensemble. As we practice, we begin to feel that we are really together, and will create a sense of complete unity throughout the concert.
The concert is all the more impressive when the audience enjoys music together with us. Why not join us and feel our music?

◆Information about our concerts
http://aug.skr.jp/

concert
The author’s performance (on the left)

 

after the live
Members after finishing the Autumn Concert 2008, “Dive to Live”

 
From 2008 October 9th Issue