Fete de la musique

(English below)
昨日は夏至で、同時にFete de la musiqueっていう街中どこでも誰でも音楽を演奏して良いっていう素晴らしい日だったんですけど、それとEuro2004のフランス対スイス戦も重なって真夜中まで街は人で一杯でした。去年一昨年と２年連続でこの日はベルリンにいたんですけど、今年は初めてパリでこの日を迎える事ができました。友人が経営するショップの一部をお借りして、そこで半野さんと僕も自分達のモニタースピーカを持ち寄って勝手に音楽を流しまくってました。こんな日があるなんてホント素晴らしい事ですよね。日本でもあれば良いのに。でも日本でやったらアホなヤンキーが騒ぎそうw

Yesterday was the special day called Fete de la musique. On this day,anyone can play thier music in anywhere in the city. And also there was a soccer game French against SWISS for Euro 2004 on the same day, so there were full of people on the street even after the midnight. I was in Berlin in last year and the year before, and this was the fisrt time i was in Paris on this day. Me and Mr.Hanno brought our monitor speakers and played our music at my friend's shop too. It is wonderful thing that people in Europe have this kind of day every year. I wish we have the same in Japan too.

僕はHDを入れ替えたばっかりで、音楽用のアプリがiTunesしか入ってなかったので、半野さんのライブに合わせてiTunesに入れたAIFFを再生したりしてましたw。半野さんは結構ノリノリでご自分の新しいアルバムからの曲をガンガンかけてましたね。人もかなり集まって来たんですよ。その後お互い曲のネタがなくなってしまったので、それぞれのiTunes入ってたSteve Reichのmusic for 18 musiciansをミックスしたりして遊んでました。そっちの方が人気あったような気もしますw

I didn't have any software for music in my hard drive except iTunes because i just changed my hard drive the day before, and i didn't install anything at that time. Mr.Hanno did his LIVE and i had to play some AIFF files with iTunes and we mixed them.
He played some songs from his new album and they were all funky! Many people stopped and listened to our music. After that, we played "music for 18 musicians" from Steve Reich and mixed them together. It was fun. Maybe people liked that better that our music :-)

僕たちは夜１０時ぐらい（昼間の様に明るいんです）に片付けました。ちょうどその日に細野さんがsonarの帰りにパリに寄ってるから会おうって連絡をいただいたので、半野さんと会いに行ってきました。sonarは大盛況だったみたいです。僕たちも来年出れると良いけど。　数時間お話した後に、細野さんと皆でハイテンションな夜の街に繰り出して、しばらく散歩してから解散しました。
　細野さん、半野さん、僕からしてみれば数年前までは雲の上の人たちだったのに、今はこうしてパリでお会いする事ができて、僕は本当にラッキーだなーって思います。　　　はぁー、お二人のようにもっとええ曲作らんとね、結果残さないと。。

We packed up our things around 10 pm. And on the same day, Mr.Haruomi Hosono came to Paris after SONAR 2004 and gave me a phone call that he wanted to see us, so me and Mr.Hanno went to see him afrer that. Mr.Hosono told us that it was a great show for SONAR. I hope we can play our music there in next year too. After we talked a few hours, we went out on the street and went home after we walked around there for a while.
Honestly I didn't think that i could see people like Mr.Hosono and Mr.Hanno in Paris like this, because they were just a famous people for me until a few years ago. I think I'm so lucky. I need to work much harder and make much better music like them!

Posted by aoki at June 22, 2004 11:13 PM | TrackBack