Takemitsu said that Serkin's uniqueness lies in his unaffected stoicism. The suppressed expression in Serkin's playing carries ideas that are beyond conventional implications and emotionalism. Whose admiration for Takemitsu's Requiem for the String Orchestra established the international fame as a composer. With him and other French composers, Takemitsu made a trip to Indonesia in 1972. Sounds coexist with our life, and we don't usually recognize that.
Music is always here and there.
Thus, the composers' task is to curve and shape them into the form of what we call music. Always I have used few notes, many silences, from my first piece. Es' in German is pronounced 'es' as 'S' in English. However, I've been gradually captured by the infinite variety of the expression that sea has, and its ability to bound different areas on the earth. I wish that I had an elegant and healthy body like a whale and that I could swim in the sea that has no West and East.