from Night before War

In a house of light
Mother is telling her child
a story
Long people's story
singing quietly and kindly
even after the child's asleep
Mother's song reaches the quietness of night
the deepness of lake
Beneath the warm, kind moon
gods are alive
in the mother's song

この灯のもとでは
母が
子に
お話をきかせている
子が寝静まっても
最後まで
うたいましょう

あるよるのうた_a song from a night (Night before War)

This is a part of a composition of Circle hasu by Aine E Nakamura.

水 water theme from Circle hasu

Composition Title: The Story of Oica l MikroEnsemblen konsertti, Ostrobothnian Contemporary Music Festival  
notated acoustic composition for quarter-tone clarinet, quarter-tone accordion, voice, violin, cello  
Duration: 6:30 

Oica is a character that Nakamura created through a theatrical project. From a trauma she has had, she lost her memory and thinks she is originally a dolphin. The piece is a scene where Oica, the god of dolphin, sings to her son, the god of the moon, at night time. All the creatures are waking up.

Excerpt From The Story Of Oica

Excerpt from On the Night of the New Moon 新月の夜 より

This is an excerpt from Kaeru. The whole work can be listened here: https://soundcloud.com/aineenakamura_soundkoe/kaeru
Kaeru means to return, go back, or go home. In this work, I did not mean "home" to literally mean home but the earth and the ocean, and a meditative place.

Excerpt from Kaeru

This is my morning improvisation on my mother's birthday.

お母さん Mother

voice, composition, performing/performance art

What formal details do I choose or not choose? What grammar do I create or not create? What cultural context do I evoke or not evoke? I pursue sensibility and spirituality in my work as my aesthetics through a focus on the nuanced possibilities of my voice. I am song itself, and I am a singer.
On this page, I focus on songs, uta uta, to pursue kindness. On another page I create, I focus on the new to seek a space (https://soundcloud.com/aineenakamura_soundkoe).

Aine E Nakamura utauta