Practice in Honesty
Perhaps we, as artists, are to embody our human potentials that can come from wholehearted pursuits of things beyond our immediate biological and social needs.
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Nikkan San “The Way of the Pianist”
What Stillness Nurtures.
This moment, our here and now together is a coincidence to be cherished, miracle to be appreciated, fate to be celebrated. And isn’t music the embodiment of our cherishing, appreciation and celebration?
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The Cooperation as a Beautiful Necessity
One note alone is not music. But there are music that would not exist without that singular tone. Similarly, an individual cannot change this society, or its system. But many individuals combined have created this society and its trends, and now many individuals, including you and I, are creating our future.
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My Way of the Piano in the Context of History
As the world today draws its inspiration and directions from the Way of the Samurai, I think perhaps that my practice, too, may serve as a bridge between the Occident and the Orient, institutions and individuals, and logic and senses.
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The Enjoyable Unpredictabilities in Music
With many variables like rapidly advancing technologies and climate change makes our past unreliable a reference to predict our future. Our sense of aesthetic that transcends our logic and calculations are being reevaluated today as something that may be vital to our humanity as we face our existential threats.
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