Japanese composer · Original piano works & arrangements
Everything begins with composition. BAO-Y creates piano-centered music, then extends its emotion and structure through score, performance, light, image, motion, and space.
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Restless Age《揺らぐ時代》
In the third movement, family members too must go to the battlefield and fight. Amid those harsh days, they sing as if murmuring, thinking of their families. In that passage, I use rubato throughout, allowing the tempo to move flexibly. Toward the end, a phrase from the first movement returns, and the music enters the conflict once again.
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Restless Age《揺らぐ時代》
The second movement portrays families enduring sorrow and supporting one another as they go on living. Even in such days, song and music remain beside them. I sought to express a world in which people encourage one another through song, even in difficult circumstances.
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Composer’s introduction
Amid the turmoil of world affairs, I live in a relatively peaceful country. Yet, as someone living in the same world, I wanted to leave a musical expression of my feelings about what is happening today, and so I composed this work.
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Composer’s introduction
I originally composed this piece for children, and I hope you will find its melody easy to connect with.
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Tradition reimagined
Tokyo Ondo meets part of Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in G Minor, Op. 23, No. 5, bringing Japanese festival energy into a powerful piano work.
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Original composition
A fast-moving historical drama in music, shaped by hardship, inner conflict, and the sustaining warmth of family.
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Composer’s introduction
A melancholy yet gentle melody over a classical accompaniment in triple time, ending quietly as if fading away.
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BAO-Y shapes the timing, pauses, tempo changes and note dynamics of MIDI playback by hand, listening and refining the result. This is a way to make a musical interpretation audible, not simply to check the notes. The aim is to explore new possibilities for piano music and offer listeners a fresh experience.
Human performances remain meaningful to BAO-Y. They can bring another interpretation and introduce the works to new listeners. They are not a prerequisite for sharing the composer’s own MIDI realization.
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Watch the second movement and explore its updated piano score.
Restless Age: read the composer’s introduction to the sonata and download the first-movement score.
Read the introduction and view the scoreThe introduction and piano score for Merry go round - B FLAT MINOR Op.9 are now available.
Merry go round: introduction and score
