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Post Subject: Re: Why you hate the “Japanese Sound”Posted by yoshi on: 1/22/2006

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For us, Japanese, there're practically no noise in the nature.  I heard that, for Westerners, the sounds insects/animals make, cricket, cecada, frog, etc., are noises.  For Japanese, they are beautiful sounds that characterlize a season.  A rumble of thunder, whispering/roaring of winds, sound of waves/streams, all the same.  Those are not noises but something that confirms our state of existance in/with the nature.

Our oldest form of poem, called Waka, often seem just plainly stating a scenery.  Moon over a mountain, flowers in the field, etc.  But the beauty of certain existance comes through through the choice of the subjects and the rythm created by the orders of vowels and consonants.  When a poem says "moon", it's not the moon objectively existing up in the night sky, nor any metaphor/allegory/symbol of something else including the poet's state of mind.  It is the moon and the poet existing together in the word "moon".

I don't know about other Asian cultures, but in the traditional Japanese culture, the nature is not something we are facing against, nor a subject of manipulation/modification to meet our needs.  We are a part of the nature and the nature is a part of us.  This is completely different from today's envioronmentalists' "Save The Earth" propaganda, and is deeply rooted in our mentality.

My generation grew up listening to Beetles and 'Stones.  Today's young Japanese are growing up listening to J-pop.  I don't even remember the last time I heard any traditional Japanese music, not even at a music class at elementaly/middle/high schoo.  In most of the classes, the teacher played popular classical music by Bethoven, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak etc., and we all slept through.  So, most of Japanese alive today are more familiar to Western music than traditional Japanese music.  Still, our mentality toward nature is quite different from that of the Western culture.  It lies deep and must be affecting/influencing almost everything we do.

I don't know how much of above relate to audio and I'm not an accute observer of difference between Japanese and American audio culture.  Although, contrally to the notion among some US audiophiles that Japanese are really into tubes and vintages, the majority of Japanese audiophiles are into the same mainstream gears as in the US.  The impression was created by the focus of media (Japanese audio media shows/introduces more wacky stuff). 

I don't know if I belong to the typical Japanese listening culture or more toward the exception, but the point Romy brought up is very interesting and stimulating.

Yoshi

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