I want you to discover an emotion.
Gagaku is the name of traditional Japanese music that was played including the Heian court (old name of Kyoto). It comes from China, like almost all of Japanese music.
matter.
What emerges from this first listen is his mad modernity, if we put this song on a scale Western.
We seem to hear a work by Messiaen, Stravinsky's rhythms, lengths of Arvo Part, Debussy colors.
again, whatever.
this music evokes the song rocks the night, an icy wind.
noise and melodies out of the shadows.
is a world of winds, silences and dark recesses.
where no longer need to think, but let themselves go, take them to the other is not known.
time does not really matter, that's why it reminds me of Messiaen. These few notes to remind us that time does not count on a regular basis, it is naturally broken up, moving, crawling, flying sometimes, static at other times, certainly not linear.
processional music, ceremony surely. and yet there is something childlike, round, twirling. Serious and arrogant at once.
know I have said too much already.
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