This video is good but it doesn’t claim to be the most beautiful example of the form:
I’m still trying to figure out exactly what the claim is of the “nice sound” Is it the percussive transient? Or the long decay of the sound? It does have a timbral quality, maybe similar to ASMR in some respects. Like a sharp attack leading to a brittle sound, like ice clacking. Is this difficult to achieve as they claim?
I am ethnically Japanese but I cannot read or speak the language so finding definitive answer has been difficult. It has really captured my imagination. There is something in these Japanese hobbies that I find fascinating, like wood planing competitions for example:
Something done to such perfection, it almost becomes useless in a way. But there is still a beauty in the relentless pursuit of it. That’s what reminded me of the synthesist’s challenge to reproduce physical sound processes, bells, wind instruments etc. to a degree of uncanny. I think it’s interesting when someone in modular’s goals are not necessarily musical. The CGS V8 Simulator is a great example of that.
I am curious to find more musical exercises like this, lowercase as an example:
