Commissioned and premiered by pianist Izumi Shimura, “Inter Konzert” which has three movements, was published in Tokyo in 1987. In the 1980s, Ichiyanagi’s style changed from the 1960s and 1970s when he was influenced by American avant-garde music, and established a unique concept, “music as a spatial art”. This work was written at the time when the concept was established as his own language for composition.

I. Premonition (about 4 minutes)

While the right-hand repeats the same phrase (A-E-Fis-H-D) to produce quiet sound space, the left hand produces totally different sound space freely. Along the way, there suddenly appears a rough scene instructed as “Più Mosso (violently)”. But immediately, it returns as before, and the two spaces finally fuse.

II.  Stillness  Far  Beyond  (Adagio  molto  sotto  voce  et espressivo, about 4.5 minutes)

Repeating of the same phrase disappears, and various sound spaces are formed quietly in a wide range of music that contains four staves. A characteristic phrase appearing everywhere and a group of sixteenth notes accompanying the tempo rubato, brings the sense of fostering the time.

III. Movement (Allegro Molt, about 3 minutes)  

In this movement, which is totally different from the last movement, sounds jump in all directions. After the two energetic phrases at the beginning are growing fluidly, the middle part comes, with full stagnation. Finally, the same phrase as the first movement appears for the moment, and after that, this piece ends dramatically.