Temporality and I: From the Composer's Workshop
Jōji Yuasa, Jōji Yuasa · Perspectives of New Music · 1993
ALTHOUGH THERE ARE numerous sources in the genealogy of my musical concerns, I will begin by dividing them roughly into two categories. One is a universal domain founded on the comJapan ... monality of sensory capability to be found adheres to tradition a es t trati throughout humanity, transcending racial and as a structure has a strcture cultural differences. The other is a domain thought. tightly linked to my own identity, that of one who was born into and grew up within the cultural zone of Japan, a zone that adheres to tradition as a structure that frames thought. These domains bear in common on the observation that men create music. But, then, just what is it that is truly required in creation? What is demanded here is a precise apprehension of the subject.