Helba
I like Yuki
I've been following Kajiura-sama on and off for about ten years now; due to other circumstances I kept myself mostly hidden. However, now, I have decided to come onboard.
I first discovered Kajiura-sama through a very poorly copied .mp3 file of "In the Land of Twilight, Under the Moon." I was entranced. From that day gradually I branched out from .hack//SIGN to the 'Girls with Guns' Trilogy (Noir, Madlax, El Cazador), outward to Aquarian Age, the Fiction Albums, Xenosaga, Mai-Hime, the rest is history.
In the time not hunting the echelons of the World Wide Web for the remainder of the Albums, I study Philosophy, especially metaphysics and epistemology. I am currently engrossed in studying Alfred North Whitehead's Process and Reality, particularly with regard to the application of philosophy to computer science. Alternatively, I play video games (Zelda has been a favorite since about 1999). I also study linguistics in the general sense (I speak Japanese (enough to get around the country), and have studied a bit of German, Hebrew, Latin, Greek, Ainu, and Na'vi); I am investigating the idea of using Kajiura's nonlexical vocals (Kajiura-go) as the basis for a constructed language.
I generally listen to Yuki Kajiura in times of study (as of my current iteration of the Great Hunt of her works, 4,028 Tracks (but, this does includes the stuff she didn't do, on albums she had a few tracks on, like Hyper Yocomix) across 237 complete albums (naturally, containing the stuff she didn't do), with more along the way. For listening, Joe Hisaishi is a close second, but I also like Bear McCreary, Hiroyuki Sawano, John Williams, Hans Zimmer, 1980's Rock and Pop, and of course, the Godfather of Video Game Music himself, Koji Kondo.
Now, then, the question becomes: why Yuki? Why not someone else as my musical Obsession? Well, I like things that are orderly, patterned, and complex. Music is this a lot of the time, but Kajiura-sama, that is another matter entirely: Kajiura-go, the synthesis of classical, eastern, western, modern, synthetic, and traditional instruments, truly much more satisfying of the complexity I like than other modern artists. The patterns of her music speak to something powerful: a whole new meaning of Eternal Recurrence. There is an intense depth to her composition, which is, from the artistic influence, something that I have found applications in music theory, linguistics, pattern sciences, cosmology; one might say Kajiura-sama is the person that got me interested in Alfred North Whitehead: the attempt to find the pure science of pattern and order in the universe. Truly, music to soothe the savage beast.
So, if you ever want to talk Yuki lightly, or seriously, make wild speculation, or just share something neat, I'd be open to talk, get feedback, whatever!
So, that's it, then. Let us maintain and share the legacy of Yuki-Kajiura-no-Mikoto, court musician of the Gods!.
I first discovered Kajiura-sama through a very poorly copied .mp3 file of "In the Land of Twilight, Under the Moon." I was entranced. From that day gradually I branched out from .hack//SIGN to the 'Girls with Guns' Trilogy (Noir, Madlax, El Cazador), outward to Aquarian Age, the Fiction Albums, Xenosaga, Mai-Hime, the rest is history.
In the time not hunting the echelons of the World Wide Web for the remainder of the Albums, I study Philosophy, especially metaphysics and epistemology. I am currently engrossed in studying Alfred North Whitehead's Process and Reality, particularly with regard to the application of philosophy to computer science. Alternatively, I play video games (Zelda has been a favorite since about 1999). I also study linguistics in the general sense (I speak Japanese (enough to get around the country), and have studied a bit of German, Hebrew, Latin, Greek, Ainu, and Na'vi); I am investigating the idea of using Kajiura's nonlexical vocals (Kajiura-go) as the basis for a constructed language.
I generally listen to Yuki Kajiura in times of study (as of my current iteration of the Great Hunt of her works, 4,028 Tracks (but, this does includes the stuff she didn't do, on albums she had a few tracks on, like Hyper Yocomix) across 237 complete albums (naturally, containing the stuff she didn't do), with more along the way. For listening, Joe Hisaishi is a close second, but I also like Bear McCreary, Hiroyuki Sawano, John Williams, Hans Zimmer, 1980's Rock and Pop, and of course, the Godfather of Video Game Music himself, Koji Kondo.
Now, then, the question becomes: why Yuki? Why not someone else as my musical Obsession? Well, I like things that are orderly, patterned, and complex. Music is this a lot of the time, but Kajiura-sama, that is another matter entirely: Kajiura-go, the synthesis of classical, eastern, western, modern, synthetic, and traditional instruments, truly much more satisfying of the complexity I like than other modern artists. The patterns of her music speak to something powerful: a whole new meaning of Eternal Recurrence. There is an intense depth to her composition, which is, from the artistic influence, something that I have found applications in music theory, linguistics, pattern sciences, cosmology; one might say Kajiura-sama is the person that got me interested in Alfred North Whitehead: the attempt to find the pure science of pattern and order in the universe. Truly, music to soothe the savage beast.
So, if you ever want to talk Yuki lightly, or seriously, make wild speculation, or just share something neat, I'd be open to talk, get feedback, whatever!
So, that's it, then. Let us maintain and share the legacy of Yuki-Kajiura-no-Mikoto, court musician of the Gods!.