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あの夢をなぞって (Ano Yume O Nazotte / Tracing That Dream)
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Browse piano sheets by YOASOBI on Zen Virtual Piano. YOASOBI is a Japanese duo of the composer and producer Ayase and the vocalist ikura. When Ayase set out to form the project and began looking for a vocalist, he found ikura, who was posting videos of herself singing on Instagram, and he reached out to her, which is how the duo came together. A project that began with a search for a vocalist suggests a sound shaped around a particular singer from the start. The idea of turning novels into music came from the staff of Monogatari.com, a site where novels are posted, who asked Ayase to try it. For one song, based on the novel “Thanatos no Yuwaku” posted on the site (タナトスの誘惑), Ayase says he read the novel many times, then made the song, which ikura sings. Reading a novel many times and then making the song makes the song a reading of the story as much as a piece of original composition. He composes with ikura as the vocal performer, imagining the sound of her voice while he works. He says the aim is not to break the author’s world but to widen it. Songs drawn from novels sit between literature and music, borrowing a story’s world while leaving the telling to melody and voice. GRAMMY.com describes YOASOBI as known for fast-paced, hard-hitting electronic sounds and says none of it would be possible without their laptop. Ayase says he rarely uses real instruments in his compositions and can reproduce and manipulate the sound of guitar, piano and drums with his program without any actual recording. Making guitar, piano and drum parts inside one program suggests an arrangement that can be built by one person at a laptop. Tokyo FM notes that YOASOBI has taken first place on the Billboard Japan Hot 100 and on Oricon’s weekly combined singles ranking. A comic adaptation of the novel behind their second song, “Ano Yume wo Nazotte,” was decided on, and the project has drawn strong support, especially among younger listeners. A comic adaptation of the novel behind a song shows the story-and-music idea reaching into a third form.
Browse piano sheets by YOASOBI on Zen Virtual Piano.
YOASOBI is a Japanese duo of the composer and producer Ayase and the vocalist ikura. When Ayase set out to form the project and began looking for a vocalist, he found ikura, who was posting videos of herself singing on Instagram, and he reached out to her, which is how the duo came together. A project that began with a search for a vocalist suggests a sound shaped around a particular singer from the start.
The idea of turning novels into music came from the staff of Monogatari.com, a site where novels are posted, who asked Ayase to try it. For one song, based on the novel “Thanatos no Yuwaku” posted on the site (タナトスの誘惑), Ayase says he read the novel many times, then made the song, which ikura sings. Reading a novel many times and then making the song makes the song a reading of the story as much as a piece of original composition. He composes with ikura as the vocal performer, imagining the sound of her voice while he works. He says the aim is not to break the author’s world but to widen it. Songs drawn from novels sit between literature and music, borrowing a story’s world while leaving the telling to melody and voice.
GRAMMY.com describes YOASOBI as known for fast-paced, hard-hitting electronic sounds and says none of it would be possible without their laptop. Ayase says he rarely uses real instruments in his compositions and can reproduce and manipulate the sound of guitar, piano and drums with his program without any actual recording. Making guitar, piano and drum parts inside one program suggests an arrangement that can be built by one person at a laptop.
Tokyo FM notes that YOASOBI has taken first place on the Billboard Japan Hot 100 and on Oricon’s weekly combined singles ranking. A comic adaptation of the novel behind their second song, “Ano Yume wo Nazotte,” was decided on, and the project has drawn strong support, especially among younger listeners. A comic adaptation of the novel behind a song shows the story-and-music idea reaching into a third form.
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Ayase began looking for a vocalist for the project, found ikura posting videos of herself singing on Instagram, and reached out to her.
For one song, based on the novel “Thanatos no Yuwaku,” Ayase read the novel many times, then made the song, and ikura sings it; he says the aim is to widen the author’s world, not break it.
He says he rarely uses real instruments, reproducing and manipulating guitar, piano and drums in his program without any actual recording.