Beautiful orchestral piece in honour of Hokusai, Bruce!

Calming and reflective ...... a beautiful piece, wonderfully scored!

This is a beautiful track Bruce, lovely arrangement as usual, the exotic insturments add just the right flavor to this gently moving (and moving!) piece :)

You got this spot on.  Perfect languid pacing and immaculately intertwined instrumentation

This might be a new favorite series of yours. I'm liking the complexity and diversity. :)

Great work!  … 🌍☮︎👍🐞🍀2024

@novembersoundmusic Too funny!  Always a pleasure to hear from you Bill!

Art Expressed in Music – Hokusai's Immortality
November 2023
Duration: 2:40
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Painting: The Inume Pass in Kai Province from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji 
Katsushika Hokusa.(1760 –1849), known simply as Hokusai, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker. He is best known for the woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, which includes the iconic print The Great Wave of Kanagawa,  In addition to his woodblock ukiyo-e prints, Hokusai worked in a variety of mediums including painting and book illustration. Starting as a young child, he continued working and improving his style until his death, at 88. In a long and successful career, Hokusai produced over 30,000 paintings, sketches, woodblock prints, and images for picture books in total. Innovative in his compositions and exceptional in his drawing technique, Hokusai is considered one of the greatest masters in the history of art.  At the age of seventy-five Hokusai defiantly referred to himself as ‘the old man mad about painting” as he railed against his mortality by declaring that he would live past 100 years and in so doing, achieve artistic immortality. “From the age of six I had a penchant for copying the forms of things, and from about fifty, my pictures were frequently published; but until the age of seventy, nothing that I drew was worthy of notice. At seventy-three years, I was somewhat able to fathom the growth of plants and trees, and the structure of birds, animals, insects, and fish. Thus when I reach eighty years, I hope to have made increasing progress, and at ninety to see further into the underlying principles of things, so that at one hundred years I will have achieved a divine state in my art, and at one hundred and ten, every dot and every stroke will be as though alive.” Told by Gakyo Rojin Manji (Old Man Mad About Painting). 
For strings, shakuhachi, koto, english horn, bass clarinet, piano, vibraphone, cloud chamber bowls, virtual instruments, sound effects and percussion.

Art Expressed in Music - Hokusai's Immortality

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I studied music composition in the 1970's and received a degree in music composition and theory. I wrote music for many years but decided never to  make a career of it.  In 2014, I retired from business so I could devote myself to my true passion, composing music.  I am currently involved in writing music for Danse Etoile Ballet (www.danseetoile.org) and collaborating with other musicians on SoundCloud.

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