We can only go forward

Performance duration
13’

Premiere

November 15, 2012, Tokyo, Tokyo Opera City Recital Hall
Jun-ichiro Taku, Alto flute; Fumiko Kai, Violin; Keizo Mizoiri, Contrabass

Year of composition
2012

Instrumentation

a-fl.Vn.Cb

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Commentary (English version)

Although this work is from a time when I was still groping for my own music and my own style had not yet been established, it seems to show the germ of characteristics that can be seen in my later works.
I remember doing, or trying to do, such things as experimenting with transitions of the duration of sound by rather long tones, trying to see if I could create a single musical flow with a series of small fragments, trying to see the transitions of sounds and acoustics and the increase and decrease of strength and weakness as a kind of energy movement, and drawing the flow of music as a graphic in the sketch stage. Also, although I used a variety of extended techniques, I think I was careful not to turn this into a work that was a catalog of such extended techniques (whether or not I was able to achieve this is beside the point).
Personally, I have a lot of things to reflect on in this piece, but there are a few things I like about it.

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Commentary (Japanese version)

　まだ自分の音楽というものを模索し始めた頃の作品で自分のスタイルも固まっていない頃ですが、後年の自分の作品に見られる特徴の萌芽が見え隠れしているようには見えます。
　やや長い音の持続の推移を試す、細かい断片の連なりで一つの音楽的な流れは作れるかどうかを試す、音や音響の推移や強弱の増減を一種のエネルギーの動きとして捉えてみてスケッチの段階では音楽の流れをグラフィックとして書く、といったことを行っていた／行おうとしていた記憶があります。また、様々な特殊奏法を用いていますが、そういった特殊奏法のカタログ的な作品にはならないように気を付けてもいた気がします（それが実現できているかどうかは置いといて）。
　個人的には反省点が多すぎる作品ですが、気に入っている部分も幾つかあります。

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