Aforismi e citazioni 3
domenica, Dicembre 30th, 2012
Fabrizio M. Rossi [text]
Oggi offriamo tre degli “undici gradini” che descrivono November Steps, una delle opere di Takemitsu Toru (1930-1996) contenute in Spirit Garden – Orchestral Works (cd Brilliant). Buon ascolto.
«3. Sound in western music ambulates horizontally. But the sound of the shakuhachi* stands upright like a tree.
4. Are you aware that the ultimate sound sought after in performance by the shakuhachi master is that produced when the wind blows through an aged bamboo thicket?
6. A biologist once remarked suggestively that dolphins communicate with each other not through sound itself but through the length of the silences between individual sounds.»
Takemitsu Toru
*flauto dritto giapponese.
