Maki Ishii – The Book

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

Sounds of West – Sounds of East Maki Ishii's Music —Striding two Musical Worlds— Editor：Christa Ishii-Meinecke Year: 1997 Text: trilingual english/japanese/german Format: hard cover, 279 pages Publisher: Moeck Musikinstrumente und Verlag (Germany) ISBN-10: 3-87549-053-3 ISBN-13: 978-3-87549-053-4 Publisher (Japan, Asian countries, Australia): Ongaku No Tomo Sha (Japan) ISBN-10: 4-276-13273-8 ISBN-13: 978-4-276-13273-3

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)

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