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Hitomi Oba - Part 3
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For Good Measure, by Ensemble for These Times (E4TT)
Episode 158: Hitomi Oba - Part 3
In this week’s episode, we continue to talk to Hitomi Oba about balancing her time between motherhood and her career, her relationship with improvisation and composition, and working with students and collaborators. If you enjoyed today’s conversation and want to know more about Hitomi Oba, check her out here: https://www.hitomioba.com/. This episode was originally recorded in December 2023.
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Intro music: “Trifolium” by Gabriela Ortiz, performed by E4TT (Ilana Blumberg, violin; Abigail Monroe, cello; Margaret Halbig, piano), as part of “Below the Surface: Music by Women Composers,” January 29, 2022
Outro music: “Lake Turkana” by Marcus Norris, performed by E4TT (Margaret Halbig, piano), as part of “Alchemy,” October 15, 2021
Transcription courtesy of Otter.ai.
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1. Hitomi Oba - Part 3 (00:00:00)
2. In this week's episode, we continue our conversation with Hitomi Oba, who we spoke to in December 2023. (00:00:22)
3. The kid's life is enhanced by having parents who do other things. I don't think it's necessarily great for a kid to be...they want to feel focused on; they have to feel like they're the center of your life. There's no question that helps them be... (00:00:30)
4. Have you found that it has affected the topics that interest you as a composer or as a performer, the pieces you pick up, what you do in your music making, as opposed to just making you feel desperately good at time management. (00:02:05)
5. Could you talk about fusing composition and performance? Does integrating improvisation into your compositions play a part in this? When you include space for improvisation in your works, how much freedom do you give your performers? (00:06:03)
6. Do you find any specific things or backgrounds or anything are more successful than others, or is it really just kind of random? (00:11:30)
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