Among the five senses, audition is the most ethereal. It separates itself easily to a realm of its own, away from the practical. Nature produces sound, which is spontaneous. The musician produces sound, which is part of the sound produced by nature, for he is part of nature. But the musician is conscious of nature and of himself. He is particularly conscious of the temporal aspect of his own existence. The sound he produces reflects awareness of temporal passage, which strings together infinitely many infinitesimal time-slices of him into a spatiotemporal worm. No two slices are identical but any two slices are connected by the unifying force of the permeating sound of music. The musician’s persistence through time and the temporal coherence of his music are intertwined in a four-dimensional double helix.

-Takashi Yagisawa