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"Akashic Record"
Do you know a word,"Akashic Record"?
I am not talking about Towa Tei label. "Record" means "Kiroku" in Japanese.
Some scholars insist that human brain has a section called "Akashic Record"
that stores DNA memories from dates back to a plankton era when the first
living things coming into being on this planet followed by human being
and to modern era.
The universe is filled with a substance called Etel that stored all date
from its creation, which is linked to Akashic Record within brain.
That is a nonsense story in which a host computer that
stores all data of universe can be linked to us, a terminal of the computer.
In light of scientific perspective, it sounds quite absurd. However, it
seems to be acceptable from the viewpoint of a songwriter.
When I write a song, I wonder if my music is really originated
from my idea? Of course, a piece of music must have been influenced by
many artists. It might be similar to other music if it was a very popular
12-temperament scale.
Therefore, even if we make every effort to create original music, can
I say that I can produce it by myself?
When a songwriter was concentrated on his or her work with
high tension, the person tries to listen from the bottom of his or her
heart to continuation of the music during the course of creation.
While playing musical instrument, a songwriter has difficulty in finding
sounds, talking to his or herself, "is it right? ", Oh, this is it!" If
a songwriter finds sound when he or she challenges beyond his or her ability,
his or her excitement will be really great.
It must be the happiest moment for a songwriter. Then I am wondering how
I should find sounds, "From where?"
These is a novel "Library of Babel" written by Jorge Luis
Borges. That is a story of a huge library in which we can find some books
written only with one word "A" and others written only with "AB" and only
with "ABCD" or "AAAAAAB" "UAWAO"c They just emulate words with no meaning,
but some sentences accidentally mean something.
50th power of 50 sounds in Hiragana x total pages x 50th power of 50 sounds
in Katakana x total number of languages used in the world x total pagescc
c The book is very paranoiac story written about a library that has a
limitless number of books. Some books of such library have no meaning
to us but others are very beneficial to us. I like this book very much.
As for Paranoia, a fiend of mine remembers the total number
of steps he walked so far since he can remember. He said "I could have
walked to the moon" or "I could have walked around the earth by several
rounds."
Letfs get back to the story of "Library of Babel". The
concept of the story is similar to a process in which a songwriter is
finding out phrases for songs.
Composition is a process to find out a series of arrangement that is meaningful
to a songwriter from limitless enumeration of sounds. After completion
of a piece of music, I was satisfied with finding good sounds.
Do you think that I am irresponsible as a songwriter?
I think that I can write good songs when I was accidentally able to link
to "Akashic Record", sources of sounds. Excellent songwriter is a person
who can always work miracles other than skills.
- Essay by Yoshitaka Hirota 2000"From colum " A story
of writing music"by SACNOTH's homepage
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