In Ryoanji, Kyoto, there is Ryoanji Hojo Garden, so-called "Ryoanji Rock Garden". It is an extremely simple garden 25 meters in width and 10 meters in length, with no plants, white sand raked by broom, arranging 15 large and small stones in 5 spots. The simple and abstract appearance stirs the viewer's imagination and allows them to make various interpretations.

Following the garden, this work is composed by arranging various chords of brass instruments as simply as these 15 stones, aiming to give the players and the audience an interpretation of their own.

Composed for the recording of "Brass Concept" in 2011.

(Hideaki Miura)