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“I would sing myself with a tambura and just regular a cappella singing and practicing. I did that around 1973 and 1974, and I finally developed my own style of singing.”

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Yoshi Wada

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“I got into one of the Scottish classical styles called piobaireachd, which is a very old music that started around the 1700s or something. I really got into this music. After that, I started to compose bagpipe music in my notations. Then I started building bagpipes by myself, and then I started to perform with the instrument myself in the 1980s.”

Style Building Instruments Scottish Old Music Bagpipes

Author:Yoshi Wada

“For a long time in the 1970s, I was experimenting to build musical instruments and use them. I did a lot of ethnic music studies and other things, like electronic music. Making homemade musical instruments and performing was my major activity from the time.”

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“Scottish bagpipe has two tenors and one bass - three drone pipes - and then the one chanter. If you put bagpipes together, it creates such a fine sound.”

Ifs Two Together Three Sound Fine Bass Pipe Scottish Drones Tenors Bagpipes

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“Initially, when I was making the bagpipes and reed instruments, it was different from the other instruments. In terms of sound itself, it may not be different, but in performing with it, it was a necessity to build it if I was going to perform and make scores with it. By making the instruments, it helped me compose the way I want.”

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“I don't think I differentiate between composition and improvisation. Improvisation could be a large part of a composition.”

Thinking Composition Improvisation Differentiate

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“Most of my music is improvisation, and composition is improvisation. Even if I have a score, it is improvisation.”

Ifs Music Is Score Composition Improvisation

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“I remember, in elementary school, being asked what my father does and not knowing how to answer. When I asked my mom what I should say next time, she replied, "Just say he's self-employed." I love that.”

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“When I was just getting started making my own music, my dad said, "You should think about art, but also anti-art and non-art."”

Thinking Should Art Said My Own Dad My Dad Getting Started

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“The reactors in Japan are stable in the same way that a ticking time bomb is also stable. It wouldn't take much to light the fuse - a 6.6 earthquake, like what happened today in Japan, a pipe break, an over-pressurized containment vessel - anything could set it off, in which case we would have another Chernobyl, three times the magnitude of a Chernobyl accident.”

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Author:Michio Kaku

“It's risky to allow radiation to constantly go up into the atmosphere. The main criticism of this approach of entombing it is that it would cost too much, involve too many resources and people. But think of the cost of having all the crops impounded by the government, all the milk being thrown into the river, people's livelihoods destroyed.”

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Author:Michio Kaku

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