Essays Empathy as a Happy Illusion: Reflecting on “The Memory Police” and Music
Podcast Commentary of This Article by AI VoiceI recently finished reading Yoko Ogawa's "The Mem...
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Essays Echoes of the Self and the Voice of the Other: A Dialogue on Composition with AI
Podcast Commentary on This Article (in Japanese)With the rapid proliferation of AI-driven compo...
Essays Silence as the Fountainhead of Writing: Thoughts on BGM for Writing
When I sit down to write and face myself, I do not play music (BGM). I don't even wear earphones...
Essays Is Our Music Speaking “DAW Language”?
AI-Voiced "Podcast Commentary on This Article"The Blind Spot of the DAW as a Production Environ...
Book Reviews Review: “Musical Cognition” edited by Rita Aiello
(Original posted on April 10, 2002)This is a collection of research papers on the theme of music...
Essays Deconstructing DAW Music Production with “A Story of a Garden”: Solitude, Contingency, and Coexistence with AI
Tsunehiro Uno's "A Story of a Garden" is a thought-provoking book that offers a new perspective ...
Book Reviews Review: “Symphony of Spirit and Music” Edited by Tomonobu Imamichi
(Original posted on April 9, 2002)This is a collection of research papers on music aesthetics, c...
Book Reviews Review: “A History of Harmony” by Olivier Alain
(Original posted on April 10, 2002)Harmony, or "chōwa" in Japanese, translates to "concord" or "...
Music Reviews Darius’s “MAIN THEME – CHAOS” by Hisayoshi Ogura (OGR): A Uniquely Original Masterpiece
The game music of the 1980s is home to a number of experimental and distinctive masterpieces, an...
Music Reviews The Serene Aesthetics of Fusion in Tigran Hamasyan’s “The Poet”
In the music scene, the name Tigran Hamasyan is known as that of an innovator who creates a musi...