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| Gaia Symphony No.9 |
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On the day I met Lovelock for the first time, the first thing he said to me was, "Why do Japanese people accept Gaia Theory so openly? "I wonder why the Japanese are so open to the Gaia Theory, which is so difficult to accept in Western society." I quickly replied, "The depth of Japanese culture, the Japanese people. "Deep down in the Japanese culture, behind the Japanese unconscious view of nature, there is a concept of 'eight million gods' that has been handed down since the Jomon period. The idea is that behind every natural phenomenon, there are eight million gods, each controlling a different phenomenon. It is because of this unconscious view of nature that most Japanese, including myself, accepted your Gaia Theory as honest, intuitive, and correct. Each of my works, from "No.1" to "No.8" of Gaia Symphony, features four or five people from around the world who have accomplished seemingly "superhuman" feats. There is one thing they all say in unison. They all say in unison, "It is not my personal ability that has allowed me to accomplish such seemingly great feats. When I became convinced that my life was being kept alive by the super advanced life system of Gaia, which is far beyond human knowledge, what appeared to be a feat became a reality. Saint Beethoven composed nine "symphonies" in his lifetime and died after completing his "Ninth" symphony. In this "Ninth", for the first time, he included not only instruments but also human voices, "chorus". When I started to make the film, "The Ninth Symphony of the GAIA," I had the thought, "How did the human singing voice sound to the ears of Beethoven, who had already lost his hearing at that time? I wondered how the human voice sounded to Beethoven, who had already lost his hearing. Jin Tatsumura |
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Conductor: Ken-ichiro Kobayashi, a.k.a. Kobaken
"I often hear people in the music industry say, "In the 21st century, there is no conductor who can conduct Beethoven's Ninth better than Kobaken. He was born in Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture in April 1940, coincidentally the same month as myself, Jin Tatsumura. I first heard about him in 1977, when I visited Budapest, the capital of Hungary, for the filming of the TV program "The Earth is Music". While location scouting in the downtown area, I was astonished to see a huge portrait of him in the show window of a music store, about the size of two tatami mats. A classical music conductor was being treated like a Hollywood star. I didn't know anything about "Kobaken" at that time, and I didn't know that he was "Japanese" until I asked someone at the store. It was also at that time that I learned that he was a "hero" who won the first prize at the first Budapest International Conducting Competition in 1974 and was awarded the Hungarian Order of Culture. During the filming of the Gaia Symphony No. 5 in 2003, the members of the Budapest Club, the World Council of Wise Men founded by Dr. Ervin László, were joined by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Jane Goodall. I also learned that Ken-ichiro Kobayashi was a member of the Budapest Club, a world council of sages founded by Dr. Ervin László, along with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Jane Goodall. In the film "The Ninth," I hope to portray his process of completing the annual "Ninth Concert" at the end of the year. |
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Dr. Steven Mithen, (Professor of Early Prehistory, University of Reading, UK) When we Japanese hear the word "Neanderthal", many of us probably think of a savage, ape-like people who became extinct before humans (Homo sapiens) appeared on this planet. However, recent remarkable archaeological discoveries have led to a new theory that Neanderthals had brains as large as ours, a well-developed throat, and advanced communication with each other not through words, but through singing. Dr. Mithen is a proponent of this theory. Why are we so compelled to create and listen to music? Dr. Mithen believes that Neanderthals lived in a world of sound panorama and communicated with their large brains through non-verbal songs. In the 21st century, when the human genome was sequenced, the genome of the Neanderthals was also sequenced, and the results showed that a few percent of the Neanderthal genome was passed on to us modern humans. In addition, we East Eurasians have received a little more of the Neanderthal genome than we have. Interestingly, if you look at the DNA of the Jomon people, you will find that they are very close to the East Eurasians. Among the Japanese, it is the genes of the Okinawans and the Ainu that have inherited the Jomon DNA. About 30,000 years ago, around the time of the last ice age, Neanderthals, hunters on the Eurasian continent, may have followed large animals migrating eastward to escape the cold to the eastern edge of the Eurasian continent, passing through Kamchatka, which was still land-locked at the time, to reach the Japanese islands of the Jomon period. Didn't it all start with the encounter with the Jomon people at this time? I would like to hear the "singing voice of the Neanderthals" through the genes inside me.
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Dr. Tasuku Honjo, Molecular biologist (Distinguished Professor at Kyoto University, When I first interviewed Dr. Honjo in the early 80's, he had already made a significant contribution to the elucidation of intractable diseases through his research on antibody genes, and was receiving worldwide acclaim. The words he spoke to me at that time gave me great courage for the subsequent concept of the film "Gaia Symphony". In the interview, he told me the following. In an interview, he said, "The structure of genes, the mechanism of transmission from parent to child, life has been connected since ancient times. The defense system we have today is actually a combination of very small units of genes to create a variety of expression systems. It is a system that first lists all the possibilities, and then asks you to choose the best one. What we can learn from this is that if we cut off all the things that seem to be useless today because they are useless now, we will have problems in the future. Therefore, there is preparation for the future in the waste. The human species has survived the long evolutionary process because of the diversity of its many genetic variations. If we had only one genetic system, a slight change in the environment would destroy the entire human race. All life is interconnected, living together in harmony for eternity. Even one of the subatomic particles that was born at the moment of the birth of the universe may be in my body now, involved in the birth and death of countless stars in the universe. It is not an exaggeration to say that Tasuku Honjo is the creator of the soul of the Gaia Symphony, and I am filled with gratitude that he will perform in the ninth and final work of the Gaia Symphony.
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