eternal escape (2001)
Japanese, active Europe
These days, I write mainly two types of music one is very slow atmospheric music, and the other one is fast, energetic and mechanical. My recent interest is to combine these two elements, as well as lyrical phrases, into one piece without having conventional “sections”.
John Woolrich rang to ask me for a four to five minute solo piece for Hoxton New Music Days. I was very pleased to be asked, but then thought – four to five minutes, that means slow atmospheric music is out of the window, because a slow piece takes a longer time to express what I want in music. I always wanted to write fast, loud, groovy and funky contemporary music without a steady pulse. Conventional dance music bores me to death, because once I set foot into a party or night club, I know that I will be hearing music just in 4/4 all night.
This piece contains a very short top phrase – a little bit sugary, perhaps – coming in and out of the energetic, violent, irregular broken scherzo-like music.
I tried to compose six or seven minutes of music to compress into four or five. Finally my reason for choosing the cello is because I know the instrument quite well and also wanted to write a percussive piece for possibly the least percussive instrument.