Mutterings of the world
Death of the comporser Toru Takemitsu - I got this news at a coffee shop. I run into my former teacher that morning at a train station and together we read about it in a newspaper. We became silent for a while, sharing a grief. I loved his work "Casiopea". For several days newspapers run essays moaning the deseased composer. I found one especially touching. It was a quoted paragraph from the essay written by Toru Takemitu himself. "I consider the work of comporsing music as an act of listening to the voiceless mutterings and songs which exist in this world rather than forming something out of nothing. Music should not be born out of intellectual manipulation on a piece of paper. The act of listening to the voices of this world would be surer experience filled with discoverires and joys" From the mutterings he composed beautiful music. - Mainichi Shinbun Feb 21 '96.
When I listen to his music with his thought in mind, I feel my body filled with joy of life. And also I'm feeling the frailty of human life. I carefully stored his words in my heart. I would like to keep on shooting photography as though treasuring some valuable things as a small existance which is being let to live in this world. Actually the joy of shooting photography could not be unrelated to the joy of living.
Noriko KAWAMURA (March 13, 1996)
Copyright(C) Noriko KAWAMURA 1996