Just finished reading Nietzsche's The Antichrist, the first of the four-part collection of essays, Revaluation of All Values, which was never completed.
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04/30/2006
04/28/2006
04/27/2006
04/26/2006
Update: Poems "Interpretations of Silence" (3/7)
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Bird questions
The third poem in the ongoing project, "Interpretations of Silence." As I put them up one by one, I feel the end of the year drawing nearer and nearer.
This one just flowed out after the first sentence came to my mind one day. I had just begun reading Heidegger's Being and Time then. This poem consists mainly of questions, and in that sense it is inconclusive and (hopefully) thought-provoking. The obvious double-meaning of the title is to be noted.
Bird questions
The third poem in the ongoing project, "Interpretations of Silence." As I put them up one by one, I feel the end of the year drawing nearer and nearer.
This one just flowed out after the first sentence came to my mind one day. I had just begun reading Heidegger's Being and Time then. This poem consists mainly of questions, and in that sense it is inconclusive and (hopefully) thought-provoking. The obvious double-meaning of the title is to be noted.
Current music: String Quaret in Four Parts (1949-50) (John Cage), by Arditti String Quartet
04/25/2006
04/24/2006
おとぎ話の終わり
(Charlottesville & University Symphony Orchestra concert. Conductor: Michael Slon. Sat. Apr. 22, 2006)
シャーロッツヴィル／大学オケの今年最後の定期公演、行ってきました。一年間素晴らしい音楽をありがとうございました（そして来年もよろしく）、という気持ちで。
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シャーロッツヴィル／大学オケの今年最後の定期公演、行ってきました。一年間素晴らしい音楽をありがとうございました（そして来年もよろしく）、という気持ちで。
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04/22/2006
Qu'est-ce que "l'histoire" de la philosophie veut dire?
The other day in OCT lecture, professor Megill was making a point that so-called "history of philosophy" courses taught in American universities often tend to be really "history of epistemology."
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04/21/2006
Les différentes sortes de difficulté
This semester I have read some of the most influential and important articles and books written in the 20th century on various so-called "humanities" disciplines.
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04/20/2006
スピッツの『楓』と『存在と時間』
スピッツの『楓』という曲が好きだ。やさしくて、キレイで、切ない。カラオケにいくと必ず歌う一曲でもある。何度聴いても涙を誘う名曲であるが、今日歌詞を聴いていてふと思った。この曲の主題にはどこかハイデガー的なものがあるのではないかと。
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04/18/2006
フロイトはもうこりごりです。
というわけで、日曜の夜から月曜の朝に書けて書き上げました、OCTの学期末ペーパ。一晩で6000単語超という、あんまり喜ばしくない記録を更新してしまいました。もっと計画たてていかなきゃな…
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04/17/2006
Update: Poems "Interpretations of Silence" (2/7)
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A Simple Sun
The second poem in the ongoing project, "Interpretations of Silence." I have 5 more to come.
One of the important themes of "Interpretation of Silence" is "anti-poetry." I mean something quite positive by this, and my very putting forward these pieces affirms that paradox. Oh poetry, this contradictory enterprise! But as Nietzsche said, "the price of fruitfulness is to be rich in internal opposition."
But enough of theoretical rubbish. This one is a simple love poem. A love poem... well, why would I even need this qualification? All my poems are love poems anyway.
A Simple Sun
The second poem in the ongoing project, "Interpretations of Silence." I have 5 more to come.
One of the important themes of "Interpretation of Silence" is "anti-poetry." I mean something quite positive by this, and my very putting forward these pieces affirms that paradox. Oh poetry, this contradictory enterprise! But as Nietzsche said, "the price of fruitfulness is to be rich in internal opposition."
But enough of theoretical rubbish. This one is a simple love poem. A love poem... well, why would I even need this qualification? All my poems are love poems anyway.
Current music: Sonata in C, K330/300h (W. A. Mozart), by Mitsuko Uchida
04/16/2006
ヒラリー・ハーンに完璧にうちのめされた件について
本当はOCTのペーパ書いてなきゃいけないんだけど、昨日たまたまかけてみた「ブラームス／ストラヴィンスキー：ヴァイオリン協奏曲」があまりにすごすぎた。背筋に稲妻が何回も走った。
ヒラリー・ハーン（Hilary Hahn）、ヤバい。デビュー盤のバッハの「無伴奏パルティータ／ソナタ」も、David Zinman指揮、Baltimore交響楽団とのベートーヴェンの協奏曲の録音にカップリングされてるバーンスタインの「ソロ・ヴァイオリン、弦楽、ハープと打楽器のためのセレナーデ」もかなり好きだったけど、昨夜ブラームスの冒頭の入り方で完全にうちのめされた。恋に落ちた、と言う意味ね（笑）。
Breathtakingly intense. Daringly beautiful. Elle est absolument formidable!!
後日またじっくり紹介したいと思いますが、とりあえずオフィシャルサイトへのリンクだけ貼っときます：
HilaryHahn.com
Hilary Hahn on Deutsche Grammophone
しかもなんと６月に来日公演が！東京オペラシティであるようです。しかも値段もそれほど高くないし（学生２５００円）。モーツァルトのソナタ２５番（ト長調）他、幅広いおもしろそうなプログラム。詳しくはこちら。う〜んまだ席残ってるのかな…誰か一緒に行きませんかー？
ヒラリー・ハーン（Hilary Hahn）、ヤバい。デビュー盤のバッハの「無伴奏パルティータ／ソナタ」も、David Zinman指揮、Baltimore交響楽団とのベートーヴェンの協奏曲の録音にカップリングされてるバーンスタインの「ソロ・ヴァイオリン、弦楽、ハープと打楽器のためのセレナーデ」もかなり好きだったけど、昨夜ブラームスの冒頭の入り方で完全にうちのめされた。恋に落ちた、と言う意味ね（笑）。
Breathtakingly intense. Daringly beautiful. Elle est absolument formidable!!
後日またじっくり紹介したいと思いますが、とりあえずオフィシャルサイトへのリンクだけ貼っときます：
HilaryHahn.com
Hilary Hahn on Deutsche Grammophone
しかもなんと６月に来日公演が！東京オペラシティであるようです。しかも値段もそれほど高くないし（学生２５００円）。モーツァルトのソナタ２５番（ト長調）他、幅広いおもしろそうなプログラム。詳しくはこちら。う〜んまだ席残ってるのかな…誰か一緒に行きませんかー？
04/15/2006
04/14/2006
Emplois de l'infinitif: "de" ou "à" ou rien?
"Il n'existe pas de règles strictes gouvernant..." (there aren't any strict rules governing), or, "tout dépend de l'usage et du sens" (everything depends on the usage and the sense), are the phrases which foreign language learners dread.
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04/13/2006
04/12/2006
Update: Poems "Interpretations of Silence" (1/7)
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A Hope
I have recently written up seven poems under the title "Interpretations of Silence." It is the first series of poems in English I have written in quite a while (virtually almost a year).
I decided to put them up one by one, in such a pace that by the time all seven poems are up, I will be done with the school for this year. So stay tuned, come back, and read all seven of them.
This first one, "A Hope," is a short piece that serves as a prelude, not only to this particular sequence, but also within a greater scale, one might say, to a new phase in my writing life.
A Hope
I have recently written up seven poems under the title "Interpretations of Silence." It is the first series of poems in English I have written in quite a while (virtually almost a year).
I decided to put them up one by one, in such a pace that by the time all seven poems are up, I will be done with the school for this year. So stay tuned, come back, and read all seven of them.
This first one, "A Hope," is a short piece that serves as a prelude, not only to this particular sequence, but also within a greater scale, one might say, to a new phase in my writing life.
Current music: Piano Concerto no.2 in d, op.40 (Mendelssohn), by Murray Perahia (pf.)/Neville Marriner (dir.)/Academy of St. Martin-in-the-fields
04/11/2006
04/10/2006
第三項音楽進化論ゼミ
月曜日から東大で音楽家の渋谷慶一郎さんと複雑系研究者の池上高志さんによる『第三項音楽進化論』というレクチャが始まります。木村君と成田が運営してます。学外からの聴講は自由だそうなので興味のある方はのぞいてみてはいかがかと。僕も帰ったら遊びにいきたいと思ってます。てかゲストも豪華。
When: 月曜五限（16:20-17:50）
Where: 東京大学駒場キャンパス・5号館522号教室
What: 第三項音楽進化論セミナ
Who: 講師の渋谷慶一郎さん、池上高志さんと生徒のあなた
Why: おもしろい話と音が聴けるから…あと東大１、２年生なら単位も
渋谷氏のレーベル、ATAKのサイトはこちら。詳しい情報はここから。
ゼミの特別ブログはこちら。授業の音声・動画もUPされるようです。ナイス！
When: 月曜五限（16:20-17:50）
Where: 東京大学駒場キャンパス・5号館522号教室
What: 第三項音楽進化論セミナ
Who: 講師の渋谷慶一郎さん、池上高志さんと生徒のあなた
Why: おもしろい話と音が聴けるから…あと東大１、２年生なら単位も
渋谷氏のレーベル、ATAKのサイトはこちら。詳しい情報はここから。
ゼミの特別ブログはこちら。授業の音声・動画もUPされるようです。ナイス！
04/09/2006
Summer dream glimpsed in advance
(A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare. Shakespeare on the Lawn production. Director: Katie Mason. Fri. Apr. 7, 2006.)
A joyful presentation of one of the most commonly staged plays by Shakespeare. The play that blesses the act of communal artistic enterprise by its very being one such project. The play that makes one smile. The play I fell in love with.
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A joyful presentation of one of the most commonly staged plays by Shakespeare. The play that blesses the act of communal artistic enterprise by its very being one such project. The play that makes one smile. The play I fell in love with.
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04/07/2006
04/06/2006
04/05/2006
Argument by imagination
The other day, in HAP, we were discussing what the linguistic status of the sentence "all men are mortal" was.
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04/04/2006
04/03/2006
トラクタトゥスの梯子：語りえぬものについては…？
今週HAPでヴィトゲンシュタインの『論理哲学論考（Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus）』を読み終えた。Routledge Classicsのエディション（写真）は装丁が（アメリカの本にしては）エレガントでよろしかった。
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04/02/2006
Update: Photography
Diverted Eyes: March in NYC (opens in a new window)
(Silhouette in the manner of Magritte)
The first update in a quite a while. Pictures taken during the spring break.
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(Silhouette in the manner of Magritte)
The first update in a quite a while. Pictures taken during the spring break.
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04/01/2006
Moonlight, pallid and emaciated
(Edvard Munch: The Modern Life of the Soul. Museum of Modern Art. Feb. 19 - May 8, 2006)
If you plan to be in NYC during the next month or in early May, I recommend this special exhibition of Munch's works at MoMA, the first retrospective of the Norwegian painter held in a n American museum in almost 30 years.
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If you plan to be in NYC during the next month or in early May, I recommend this special exhibition of Munch's works at MoMA, the first retrospective of the Norwegian painter held in a n American museum in almost 30 years.
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