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Sounds of West – Sounds of East: Maki Ishii's Music

From the Introduction

«This book contains—next to an article by myself—reflections and essays written by seven experts about my music. Though for me the experience of reading texts about my own music was somewhat awkward, I have to admit that I felt a kind of intellectual excitement when I stumbled upon passages where certain "sounds", which I shaped merely through a process of thoughts, inspiration and intuition, were reproduced exactly with "words". Also once in a while I also found analyses which appeared erroneous, but these might as well point to situational entities in deeper layers of my music which are outside my schemes of thought.

«The authors analyse in their texts many of my compositions, from the earliest to the newer ones, from different perspectives. Taken together they reveal an combined image of the "music of Maki Ishii". For me personally though this remains a "world of sounds" which in form of a process has already passed on.»

(Maki Ishii, trans. K. Ishii)

Table of Contents

Maki Ishii

"Sounds of West – Sounds of East" – Striding two Musical Worlds

Kōji Sano

"Maki Ishii"– Synthesis of Multi-Layered Time

Wolfgang Burde

"A Musical Cosmos of Integration" – Notes on the Compositional Work of Maki Ishii

Keisaburō Maruyama

"Anagrams across Sound Layers" – "Kyō-Sō"

Takashi Funayama

"Reverberations between East and West" – Observations on Maki Ishii's Composition "Fū Shi"

Lothar Mattner

"Halting Time" – The Composer Maki Ishii

Kuniharu Akiyama

"Monochrome" – The Emotional Aesthetic of Japanese Drums and Maki Ishii's "Non-Musical Time"

Toshiro Kido

"Iconology of Sounds" – Maki Ishii's Music and the Spatial Concept of Japanese Traditional Music

Maki Ishii

Epilogue

Annex

Artistic background
List of Works (in chronological order; as to cast of instruments)
CD-Discography
Prizes and Awards