Toru Takemitsu ： Rain Tree Sketch

Toru Takemitsu’s *Rain Tree Sketch* is a character piece that delicately portrays the resonances emerging between sound and silence. Short fragments appear with spaces between them, while overlapping sonorities and shifts in register shape the work as a single unfolding flow. Rather than focusing on abrupt contrasts, listeners can attend to the changing colors and passage of time. In performance, it is important not to connect each note too hastily, and to handle the resonance carefully while keeping the pedal from becoming cloudy. Instead of relying solely on dynamics, subtle adjustments to touch and the length of pauses can bring out the changes in sound within the stillness.