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I used to know things intellectually, but now I feel them. Now I feel that my body is part of nature, so being sick is just a process of nature, and death is a process of nature, and being reborn through the soil is a process of nature.
I used to work, like, for 16 hours a day, or sometimes 24 hours.
I want to be lazier. This is the luxurious dream I have: Doing nothing all day, just watching the clouds and DVDs.
I want to capture the mood I have now, post-cancer, in my music.
I wanted to hear sounds of everyday objects - even musical instruments - as things.
I was aware of that theme of mortality in my music since around 2009. The decaying and the disappearance of the piano sound is very much symbolic of life and mortality. It's not sad. I just meditate about it.
I was born and grew up in Tokyo, so I didn't know about nature.
I was really into the music of Cream after I finished composing the music for 'BTTB.'
I was working with the computer at university and playing jazz in the daytime, buying west-coast psychedelic and early Kraftwerk records in the afternoon, and playing folk at night. I was quite busy!
I went to see one of those pianos drowned in tsunami water near Fukushima and recorded it. Of course, it was totally out of tune, but I thought it was beautiful. I thought, 'Nature tuned it.'
I'm a terrible drummer; I almost cannot play the guitar nor sax nor trumpet.
I'm always looking out for interesting people.
I'm concerned by a deficient technology. In other words, errors or noises. It absorbs me, and I wonder if new cultural currents could emerge from this deficiency.
I'm fascinated by the notion of a perpetual sound: a sound that won't dissipate over time. Essentially, the opposite of a piano, because the notes never fade. I suppose, in literary terms, it would be like a metaphor for eternity.
I'm just delighted to be living, to be able to have a simple conversation, to feel a ray of sunlight on my skin and listen to the breeze move through the leaves of a tree.
I'm lucky that I have people listening to my music, waiting to see me in North America.
I'm not the ambassador of Japan or Japanese culture.
I'm really bad writing the chase scenes or fighting scenes. I'm much better for writing, like, a more melancholic or tragic music.
I'm trying to relax, but it's hard.
I'm very shy about seeing my own face on the screen.
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Adela Florence Nicolson
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BirthDate
09 April, 1865
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04 October, 1904
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