The video of my new piano solo work, Song of the Secret Covenant, performed by Takuya Otaki at the small concert following my Bartók lecture the other day, has been released. The piece develops through fragments of melody that are continuously added,
However, while “Sen no Ongaku.” connects point to point, my piece is composed by connecting phrase to phrase (of course, it goes without saying that I was also highly conscious of points on a micro level in the compositional process).
almost like an incantation, transforming in various ways as they unfold.Due to the nature of the quoted materials, it may not sound that way at first listen, but in my own view, this piece is actually the closest among my works to my teacher Jo Kondo’s concept of “Sen no Ongaku.”