A Brief Guide to Ryuichi Sakamoto
The Thousand Knives of The Last Emperor's Left-Handed Dream in Esperanto, Mr. Lawrence.
“People compose their music from the first till the last note following a chronological order. But now, we can, for instance, start at the middle, memorize it, continue another part and memorize that. The notion of a piece of music is we can put each memorized part anywhere, so time is no longer linear. Time does not develop in one way. We have a block …
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