Beyond the Ascending Clouds
This is my first attempt to compose my own music. I made everything I want to try get into the piece. Do you think if it is successful? Give me a comment.
Taka Aida, a doctor of engineering in chemical engineering. An amateur composer. Mainly creating computer-programmed music.
Story behind the song
I love the prog music in 1970s. I had played the covers of the bands like Yes, King Crimson, Focus and so on when I was a high school student with my band mates. But there was no opportunities to create our original songs. So, I decided to buy a Roland synthesizer and sequencing software to control MIDI with PC when I was 37 years old. It was the time when I became an associate professor in Tokyo Institute of Technology! Some of my friends told me that composing my own music was foolish and wasted the precious time to study and to write research papers! But I did. And the first album was released just in the three months after, which was entitled Precious Times. Yes, it spent my precious time but not for my research work but for sleeping! So, I composed this piece so quickly under the influences by the music mainly from Yes and Genesis in the latter half of 1970s. Watcher of the Skies by Genesis is one of my most favorite songs, and I love the introduction and ending of the song, especially. The closing part of my piece was really influenced by the song by Genesis. At the same time, I was interested in cacophony, odd time signatures and polyrhythmic effect. So, I got everything, which I wanted to try, into the piece, probably more than necessary, and the results was the ideas overflown from the glass of six minutes or so.
