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Embracing Beethoven’s Inspiration: Joy in Uninterrupted Creation
-Music allows for instant creation with just a guitar, playing, singing, recording, and streaming on the go. In contrast, theater involves long-term planning with schedules set years in advance, and stage performances are transient, almost fleeting. Does that sense of frustration ever occur to you?” I was planning to ask you about this today… However, plays do endure, don’t they? It’s something I’ve just come to realize.
Yamamoto: That’s exactly what I realized. Plays will remain, and with the evolution of AI and the increasing accuracy of translation, there is an even greater possibility that they can be transcended without location or limitation. For example, I think that a future in which plays written in Thai, for example, are performed in Japan will soon be possible. If that is the case, I really want to focus on writers now.
Sokabe: I see. Does that mean that you want to write a certain number of books?
Yamamoto: I want to write the number of books.
Sokabe: The number is important, isn’t it?
Yamamoto: It is important.
Sokabe: I tend to write so many songs that people laugh at me. and everyone says, “You did it again! I would say, “I’m sorry,” and smile a little shyly. But there are actually things that I learn and things that I become able to do as I do more and more. I am embarrassed to say so, so I try not to tell people about it.
Yamamoto: I think people can tell how much I like numbers, even if I don’t say it [laughs].
– Are you the type of person who is not bothered by mass production?
Yamamoto: I’m going off on a tangent here, but I really love Beethoven. I find his intense dedication to composing music incredibly inspiring. While he composed, his theme of moving from anguish to joy feels like a message to future generations. Confronting the challenging process leading to joy can offer something profound. He took it to a weighty level, but I want to overcome it lightly. Still, I think heavy like him is good.
Sokabe: Did Beethoven suffer when he created it? Like birth pains?
Yamamoto: Well, it was painful, but I also think it was a lot of fun.
Sokabe: I see.
Yamamoto: He wanted to make something every day.
Sokabe: Do you have that kind of feeling, too?
Yamamoto: Yes, a little. I want to write all the time.
