Creation: 1967
Musicians: 2 percussionists
Duration: 6′
Toh is part of a series of pieces for percussion whose influences are drawn from the composer’s native East. For a long time unknown, it was rediscovered in the 2000s and recorded in 2007 for the International Percussion Meetings in the United States “Pasics 2007”. In this duo, Miki uses instruments from the woodwind family (Mokushos, claves, etc.) and skins (Japanese drums), which inevitably refer to the ancestral musical tradition of Noh theatre. His writing technique uses accelerandi and ralenti, the play of questions/answers and cadences leaving the musicians a flexibility of interpretation.