This is one of my early compositions. At the time I composed this, I was very much influenced by the guitar playing of Derek Baily. Overlapping the sonority of the guitar with my own inner being, I wanted to search for all possible means of expression with that instrument. Guitarist Norio Sato made this possible for me. 

Many years have passed since this work was first premiered, but the same approach still seems to me to be my basic working rhythm in composition.

Akemi Naito