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5, 1, 3, 4
Recordings of Performance & Memos of Practice-Record 録音とメモ
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Past years
I played a toy piano.
My grandfather gifted me a mahogany KAWAI upright piano.
From the age of 5 to 17, I studied piano with a neighbor - an elderly women who always wore colorful clothes and loved both the piano and the Electone.
I played electric bass in a rock pop band during high school.
I joined one of the piano clubs at my university. Without a teacher, I played pieces that I wanted to play. I also enjoyed listening to performances by members and friends of classical pieces, Jazz, popular, etc.
I purchased a Roland digital piano to play at night after work.
I worked as ... (Job 1).
I studied Jazz with a bearded man who worked as a writer and translator.
The reason was not that I particularly liked jazz - in fact, I hardly listened to it until then, he introduced me to works of famous jazz musicians.
Rather, I wanted to uncover the secrets of Debussy's music, and I thought learning jazz would be as a shortcut compared to the three thick harmony books (the famous red, yellow, green and black series in Japan - although later I went through them very roughly, reaching the first problem of the final chapter - I might not be able to solve problems today).
I worked as ... (Job 2).
I studied Jazz and Popular piano and theory at KAWAI Omotesandou under a highly energetic and fast-talking female teacher - it turned out that she was a graduate of my university.
I worked as ... (Job 3).
I joined a small free jazz (?) ensemble led by a colleague and enjoyed playing during weekends.
I worked as ... (Job 4).
I resumed classical piano lessons as an adult at KAWAI Omotesandou rather than continuing with Jazz. The Jazz piano teacher introduced me to a classical piano instructor.
She taught me how to read scores meticulously and play with greater elegance. I played pieces which I had wanted to play but I couldn't master on my own as well as pieces which she recommended. I continued lessons until her mandatory retirement age.
I acquired a KAWAI digital piano to replace my previous Roland digital piano after some keys stopped sounding.
I acquired digital piano KAWAI CA5900GP to replace my previous KAWAI digital piano after some keys stopped sounding (again).
I worked as ... (Job 5).
2023.03
I started uploading tracks on soundcloud.
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I create artworks using a drawing application called FireAlpaca.
I practiced Syodo (Japanese calligraphy) through my elementary school years, and took Shodou lessons in high school.
I was a part of the art club for a few months in junior high school and created a self- portrait using oil paints.
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Others
I enjoy watching anime and movies with my husband.
I often focus on subtle sensing and alignments using my hands and body.
The composer name of my improvisation tracks is my present name. My firth family name is different.
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ZOOM h1n
These days, I organized data, artworks, etc.
I remembered a piano teacher with whom I studied as an adult at Kawai Omotesandou. She recommended this suite - perhaps she liked playing it. It was at that time that I finally learned it.
I recorded this suite in 2023. I played the 1st and 3rd movements on digital harpsichord.
I've been thinking about how to enjoy playing them (the first and third movements).
(I like the 2nd movement.)
This time I played all the movements on digital piano.
I think that it is difficult to play since I may feel that in some parts the first notes of the right and left hands are not so harmonized well.
I found that I felt the score, as a set of shapes, may be beautiful - scale (big flows) and tiny flows, etc.
The piano teacher I mentioned said that she felt good whenever she played it well.
This time I realized that whether I can play it through to the end may depend on the atmosphere and spirituality at the moment, as well as my physical condition and finger technique.
Near spring. In spring?
The wind was still cold.
I saw sakura.
2026.03.29
Recently, I organized the data of tracks. I created original artworks. I refined titles of classical music track and tags of tracks. and so on...
Three years have passed since I began uploading a recording on soundcloud.
It is becoming warm, but the wind is still a bit cold,
I played it while practicing modern classical pieces,
started in E,
ended in A.
お花見はしていない が、桜餅は食べた。
I turned the pages of the book of Rameau I have, I decided to play the pieces titled 恋の嘆き, complaint of Love.
I'm not familiar with meaning of "tendre" love in court culture of at that time.
I imagined a more abstract emotion, feeling, .
Carte de Tendre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_of_Tendre
一番下にNouvelle Amilie. そこから、真ん中Tendre-sur-Inclinationか、左上Tendre-sur-Reconnaissance, 右上Tendre-sur-Estimeに進んでいくらしい。
川の左側ルートだと、下の方にComplaisanceがある。そこから左上のTendre-sur-Reconnaissanceに向かう。
題名の"Plainte"は、嘆き、溜息の音型ということであるらしいが。
この地図の中にも、ずばりの言葉ではないけれども、書いてある。