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What happens when rigorous musical structure refuses to become sound? What happens when rigorous musical structure refuses to become sound? A pianist’s practice notes on Scriabin’s Piano Sonata No. 9, exploring analysis, harmony, listening, and intuition.

What Has Always Been There 音楽の起源 Music’s origin is rooted in nature. It was always there, and it always will be. We will gently unravel the mystery of music, step by step.

Sound followed life. Music came later.

Before words existed, sound carried meaning. A quiet reflection on how singing was born.

Before rhythm becomes music, it already exists in the way we move.

Learning a new piece of music begins with listening. A reflection on sound, musical notes, and how music becomes familiar over time.

Sound comes before words. Before meaning, before explanation, music begins with listening.

Listening as memory, history, and voice quietly intersect.

Between notes, something begins to take shape.

Before meaning, there is sound.

Going quietly one’s own way, without dismantling what already exists.

Chopin stands within a long musical lineage. By tracing what he absorbed from the composers before him, we begin to hear how his own language emerged

Listening beyond accuracy, toward the subtle space where pitch becomes intonation and sound begins to speak.

Do you hear what I hear?