Mu Absence  (2014)

​​日本語：ムーアブセンス

for piano

ca. 8 min.

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Unlike European landscape paintings, Japanese landscape paintings consciously deny the depiction of a realistic sense of distance in the middle ground. By placing “ma” in the center of the painting, it expresses the distinctive spatio-temporal aesthetics found in Japanese expressions, while viewers are able to perceive the imperceptible. Mu Absence seeks to identify the imperceptible within the degrading reverberations between two notated sounds of the piano.

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”Mu" is a Japanese homonym with meanings such as "nothing", "dream", and "naught".

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