2 AM: A Nocturne

So it Begins

One of the true pleasures of living in a northern country is the occasional feeling of the warmth of the winter sun on your face. There's a word for this --apricity. A brief burst of apricity warms both the body and the spirit.

Apricity

The composition was inspired by the poem "Crossing the Water" by the American poet Sylvia Plath (1932-1963).

Crossing the Water

Black lake, black boat, two black, cut-paper people.
Where do the black trees go that drink here?
Their shadows must cover Canada.

A little light is filtering from the water flowers.
Their leaves do not wish us to hurry:
They are round and flat and full of dark advice.

Cold worlds shake from the oar.
The spirit of blackness is in us, it is in the fishes.
A snag is lifting a valedictory, pale hand;

Stars open among the lilies.
Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens?
This is the silence of astounded souls.

Crossing the Water

Inspired by the final lines from the poem Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

"The Clouds that gather round the setting sun
Do take a sober colouring from an eye
That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality;
Another race hath been, and other palms are won.
Thanks to the human heart by which we live,
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears,
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears."



Intimations: A Prelude

Yutori is the Japanese concept of consciously slowing down to allow us to savour the world around us.

Yutori

Pathétique: First Movement

This composition was inspired by a reading of the poem "When You Are Old" by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865-1939).

When You Are Old

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

The Pilgrim Soul in You

Inspired by the short poem "Dust of Snow" by the American poet Robert Frost.

Dust of Snow

The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree

Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.


A Dust of Snow

Sillage 
(SEE-yahz)
(n.) The lingering sense of someone's presence, like a perfume left in a room, evoking memory and absence.

Sillage

while art is but a vision of reality - #4276 (94R27 percent 260 left) by chair house 250829
(again, William Butler Yeats from May 22, 2025) 

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while art is but a vision of reality - #4276 (94R27 percent 260 left) by chair house 250829

Bio: chair house, Hitoshi Yasui, Tokyo, Japan

## May 16, 2025: 4171 tunes, I'll reach my goal in a year.

## Nov. 26, 2024: 4000 tunes, 88.2% of target number achieved.

## Feb. 29, 2020: 2268 tunes, the HALF of 4536 tunes, is achieved. Thanks for your kind supports.. : )

## Sep. 20, 2019: soundcloud has a big trouble for uploading music. So I failed to upload #2106 on Sep. 20, 2019 and upload it on Sep. 21, 2019 instead.

## 2000 tunes! on June 6th, 2019: Thanks for your kind supports! : )

## On Feb. 4, 2018: 1512 tunes, a 1/3 of 4536 tunes, is achieved. Thanks for your kind supports.. : )

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## On Dec. 30, 2016; #1111st tune uploaded. Great Repdigit!! : ) Thanks for your all kind supports.. 

Spotify: Top Selection Play List available on Nov. 2, 2016; 24 tunes from 816 tune.. 
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## 1000 tunes! on September 10th, 2016: Thanks for your kind supports! : )

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 "To Fill World With Gentleness" 
   -- Piano Ten Thousand Leaves Project Main Site
      http://www.chairhouse.club/

I would like to fill minds of all the people with Gentleness.
Although I don't know 4,536 tunes are enough or not, I will only keep uploading "Gentle" piano music everyday.

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Daily piano music upload project: My target number is 4,536 tunes. 

Through SoundCloud music activities, I clearly perceived the meaning of my existence.
My mission is to create gentle, calm, peaceful, beautiful, relaxing piano music and share them with all human being.

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## On September 4, 2015: Tokyo Site for Japanese open

## On August 23, 2015: piano ten thousand leaves - 4th album release in Bandcamp. 14 pieces sorted out from 44 tunes; from #414: 2-Feb-15 to #457: 17-Mar-15 
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## On July 28, 2015: vision of pttl is open.
 "To Fill Minds Of All The People With Gentleness" 

## On July 12-16, 2015; free download service for 3 piano scores started in "chairhouse club"; 
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## On June 26th, 2015:
piano ten thousand leaves - 3rd album release in Bandcamp. 15 pieces sorted out from 106 tunes; 
from #307: 18-Oct-14 to #413: 1-Feb-15 
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## On June 14th, 2015:
piano ten thousand leaves - 2nd album release in
Bandcamp. 16 pieces sorted out from 98 tunes; 
from #228: 31-Jul-14 to #306: 14-Oct-14 
https://chairhouse.bandcamp.com/album/ten-thousand-leaves-part-2

## On April 19th, 2015: 
 piano ten thousand leaves - 1st album release in Bandcamp. Sorted out 14 tunes from 227 tunes from Feb. 2nd, 2014 to Aug. 3rd, 2014.
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## On March 14th, 2015
10% of the target is achieved. thanks.. : )

## On November 15th, 2014
I got my project name: "Piano Ten Thousand Leaves"  ,based on the ancient anthology of Japanese poems.
  -  http://chairhouse.wix.club

## On July 1st, 2014
 - I set an aim of the number of upload track to 4,536. Long way.. 
I'm happy if you would support my challenge.
Thanks.. chairhouse

## On February 2nd, 2014
 - upload Tayutau as a first tune in SoundCloud