Minako Takuyama: Musica NARA Op.25 (2006) 徳山　美奈子 : ムジカ・ナラ Op.25

This performance took place at Ehrbar Saal in December 2025 as part of the Festival Dritte Wiener Ernsthaftigkeit, featuring live painting alongside the music. The full performance—re-uploaded in higher qualitywill be available on my YouTube channel in January.

I’ve been informed there will be a recording from the entire performance which I can’t wait to share but for now I’d like to share my excitement with this short clip and my words 🌳

Yesterday, I was given the quiet privilege of stepping into Musica Nara once more but this time, it arrived transformed 🐛
The air of the hall was familiar, yet something essential had shifted.
Behind me, light breathed. Color listened.
And sound learned how to look🦋

As I played, @lucasbertoncell was drawing live not as an echo, not as a decoration, but as a parallel becoming🌪️Lines and shades were born in real time, projected onto the space behind me, unfolding their own temporal logic. What emerged was not reaction, but dialogue. Two processes moving side by side, aware of each other, yet free. We had imagined a story beforehand, a constellation of ideas, but what mattered most was the trust to let it dissolve….🪐

Somewhere between the resonance of the piano and the quiet violence of color touching the screen, our galaxies began to overlap💥
Sound acquired gravity.
Color gained breath.

What surprised me most was the freedom this gave me. My senses widened. I was no longer guided only by the tactile memory of the keys or the internal map of the score, but by what I saw by shifting hues, sudden gestures, fragile spaces of emptiness. The music bent toward these visual impulses, nudged gently into directions I had never rehearsed, never imagined. It felt less like interpretation and more like listening to another body thinking alongside mine.

In that moment, the score loosened its grip.
Structure softened.
Time became porous.

This felt profoundly right within a concert shaped by improvisation a space where fixed forms were allowed to breathe, to fail, to transform. I dearly thank Professor @jeanbeers_pianist to have these wonderful ideas and to execute them as concerts. What remained was not a “piece” in the traditional sense, but a shared presence: an act of becoming, drawn and sounded into existence together.

For a brief while, I was not playing Musica Nara I was inside it 🫧
🎥: @sampenderbayne