My blog reading friends,

For a moment I thought I had a very fancy new blogging feature working on this site. I posted it on my blog. Then the blog stopped working! But if you can read this, it means everything is back to normal. Except that I mangled one of Rogers' postings - sorry for that Roger.

At least I can announce that Robert now is among the blogging friends here on tokyosinfonia.com, so please take the opportunity to chat with the Maestro of Tokyo Sinfonia! Use the little "comments" link to say something about his posts.

Cheers

hanske

Composing music must be hard if you don't have a grand design in mind. I never could understand how composers can actually accomplish what they do. How can you hear a whole concert in your mind and then put it down on paper? The idea is mind boggling.

Or do they just think of a little melody, and then begin to weave a musical canvas as a backdrop? Sounds a little easier, but still mind boggling. But the point is, you need to take all those little pieces and build something that works as a whole. A single note is nothing, but all the notes in a symphony is a huge thing. Because they all work together. Then you have a story. And people stop to listen.

Building a web site is quite like that (or a book or a film, for that matter). It really must work as a whole - the whole must be greater than the sum of all the parts. So in a way, we are building a symphony here, using characters, images, and - I hope, in a little while - sound.

Not many can accomplish that with a web site. But if some can compose a symphony, it must be possible to build a holistic web site too. Time will tell if we succeed.

hanske

Hello

Although I am sorting under the Webmaster title on this site, I can assure you that I am no nerd. On the contrary, I am a humanist and a music lover. I hope to be able to contribute as such.

However, I do also work with computers. And sometimes, that makes me feel nerdy.

You get so terribly busy with computers, they take over your whole life, and you have no time to clean up your room, or repair your glasses.

Let me tell you a little story about glasses, while I'm at it.

Someone once said that "a nerd is a socially inept person with faulty eyewear." That is quite an interesting observation, because as I was frantically trying to finish the first version of this site, my glasses fell apart. Not only was my vision blurring from tiredness, but also from the fact that the right lens kept falling out of its frame as I was working. No time to go and have it corrected.

But working constantly for hours on end can kill anybody. So I decided I needed a cup of coffee. There is a very nice little cafe around the corner here, so I stepped in and sat down to order.

A very pretty girl came to take my order. I noted she was giving me funny looks. And then I realised what it must be like to be a nerd. For I had repaired my glasses with tape, and must have looked nerdy indeed. Alone in a cafe, with faulty eyewear.

Although my glasses are broken and many other things too around me, and I am nowhere near finishing the Japanese side of this site, I am happy that it's my eyes and not my ears that are suffering. Because the music of Tokyo Sinfonia is simply magical. If all goes well, these pages will bring more listeners.

And on that note (pun intended), I finish here, and look forward to seeing you all come around and discover this site, and the fantastic people we are going to present here.

And (hint), it's going to be all about sound.

Good night.

hanske