Riyoko's channel: youtube.com/@riyopiano website: riyoko.jp In this video you will find highlights from Riyoko's final show in NYC at her friend Shuya's (at 32:43) Japanese restaurant by the same name. There are plenty of genius moments on record here. Riyoko is mostly improvising on audience requests in unprepared manner (at 12:45), sometimes not knowing the requested song and had to listen to it and learn it by ear in real-time (at 11:03). Riyoko also performed her original 'MIYABI' (including intro improvisation at 19:16 and improvised solo at 21:57). For her encore, Riyoko performed an improvised mash-up of 'Fur Elise' (Ludwig van Beethoven) & 'La Campanella' (Niccolo Paganini / Franz Liszt). In the after-party Riyoko had fun improvising on random inputs (at 28:53) - if you still don't understand Riyoko's talent, this may shed some light on the fact that she's a true genius. This performance was recorded on the evening of 23 June 2024 at Shuya NYC. Riyoko is a world-class Japanese Jazz pianist and composer who isn't bound by a single genre or style and has crossed classical, traditional Japanese, pop, EDM, and anime genre boundaries and styles in her compositions, arrangements, and performances. She's a classically trained prodigy and has been playing piano since age 4 and for well over 3 decades, latter 2 of which she dedicated to Jazz. She's renowned for her musicality, deep harmonic understanding, live performances full of energy with fluent improvisations, and delicate touch on the keys. Together with her talent and charming character she continues to proliferate Jazz and attract many fans from all over the world. You can learn more about Riyoko and sample more of her music from playlists on my channel home. Riyoko doesn't really make short clips of her music and a lot of her music and performances are missing from her own channel due to Japanese copyright laws, where venues own all the rights to recordings on their premises. Because of that Riyoko can't freely share a lot of her music with us. But an artist like this should be shared with the world, so I'm making it rain on my channels.
After spending a good amount of time picking Riyoko's brain, it turns out that she has a unique case of auditory-visual synesthesia, where her emotional state and mood control the sound-color palettes she perceives. When she enters her synesthetic flow state, she is somewhere in her own world and just follows the colors as she plays. In this state, she's completely unaware of herself or her surroundings, doesn't remember and has no recollection of her improvisations at all. There also seems to be some form of positive feed-back loop amplification that she experiences from her own playing. What's more is that her broad-spectrum cognitive functions awaken and elevate after she has 2-3 half-full glasses of wine - that's her sweet spot from my own observations. Because of all this, Riyoko: 1. has different performance gears 2. always improvises, 3. never plays anything the same way twice, 4. sometimes chooses to play songs live that she has never played before because of the right feeling in the moment, 5. substitutes songs in her setlist to better fit her mood in the moment.
@logiotek I have problem to get you explanation,Its about language so Im not 100% understand,I must use google translate but sometimes Im quite busy.mostly Im not understand about synthesia.do you remember me? Im riyoko fan from Indonesia we agree that riyoko a world class jazz pianist. I Will Comment after finish translate.This artist makes me so corious
@@djokowitjaksono3371Setelah menghabiskan banyak waktu memilih otak Riyoko, ternyata dia memiliki kasus unik sinestesia pendengaran-visual, di mana keadaan emosi dan suasana hatinya mengendalikan palet warna suara yang dia rasakan. Saat dia memasuki kondisi aliran sinestetiknya, dia berada di suatu tempat di dunianya sendiri dan hanya mengikuti warna saat dia bermain. Dalam keadaan ini, dia sama sekali tidak menyadari dirinya atau lingkungannya, tidak ingat dan tidak ingat sama sekali improvisasinya. Tampaknya juga ada semacam amplifikasi umpan balik positif yang dia alami dari permainannya sendiri. Terlebih lagi, fungsi kognitif spektrum luasnya terbangun dan meningkat setelah dia meminum 2-3 gelas anggur setengah penuh - itulah titik terbaiknya dari pengamatan saya sendiri. Oleh karena itu, Riyoko: 1. memiliki perlengkapan penampilan yang berbeda-beda 2. selalu berimprovisasi, 3. tidak pernah memainkan sesuatu dengan cara yang sama dua kali, 4. terkadang memilih untuk memainkan lagu live yang belum pernah ia mainkan sebelumnya karena perasaan yang tepat pada saat itu , 5. mengganti lagu-lagu di setlistnya agar lebih sesuai dengan suasana hatinya saat itu.
@@djokowitjaksono3371 Yes and in Riyoko's case, her synesthesia is unique from other cases because it's also connected to and controlled by her mood and emotional state. Alcohol makes her happy and in moderation broadly elevates her cognitive state (even her conversational English becomes better, etc.). When she's inspired and in a really great mood, she's unstoppable. Ya, dan dalam kasus Riyoko, sinestesia yang dialaminya unik dibandingkan kasus lainnya karena sinestesia ini juga terhubung dan dikendalikan oleh suasana hati dan keadaan emosinya. Alkohol membuatnya bahagia dan dalam jumlah sedang dapat meningkatkan kondisi kognitifnya (bahkan percakapan bahasa Inggrisnya menjadi lebih baik, dll.). Ketika dia terinspirasi dan dalam suasana hati yang sangat baik, dia tidak dapat dihentikan.
လေးစားရပါသော တေးလုံး နဲ့ မင်းရဲ့ အံ့သြစရာကောင်းတဲ့ စန္ဒယားတီးတာကို အရမ်းကြိုက်တယ်... မျှဝေပေးတဲ့အတွက် ကျေးဇူးပါ။ ဥရောပမှ နွေးထွေးစွာ နှုတ်ခွန်းဆက်စကား။ Dear this "Song" and your wonderful piano playing very much... thanks for sharing! Warm greetings from Europe!
0:00 A Whole New World (from Disney's: Aladdin) 2:25 Someday My Prince Will Come (from Disney's: Snow White) 4:05 Fly Me To The Moon (Bart Howard) 6:54 Stella by Starlight (Victor Young) 9:29 Summer (Joe Hisaishi) 11:03 by ear: Tasogare (Mai Yamane) 12:45 Meguru Kisetus (from Studio Ghibli's: Kiki's Delivery Service) 13:44 Rouge no Dengon (from Studio Ghibli's: Kiki's Delivery Service) 14:35 Lupin the Third theme 17:02 Merry-Go-Round of Life (from Howl's Moving Castle) 18:09 Moonlight Sonata (Ludwig van Beethoven) 19:16 MIYABI: intro improvisation (Riyoko's original) 20:31 MIYABI: intro (Riyoko's original) 21:57 MIYABI: improvised solo (Riyoko's original) 24:37 MIYABI: finale (Riyoko's original) 25:25 encore: mash-up of Für Elise (Beethoven) & La Campanella (Paganini / Liszt) 28:53 after-party: having fun improvising on random inputs (sheds light on Riyoko's genius)
The best way I can give an analogy of Riyoko's talent is through Garry Kasparov (former chess world champion and perhaps the greatest chess player of all time in terms of legacy) talking about Mikhail Tal (former chess world champion from earlier era and a unique intuitive genius of the game of chess): "There was a blitz tournament in Moscow, one month before Tal's death. He looked horribly. But Tal was still Tal. In this blitz tournament, I lost my only game to him. I retaliated in the second round, but the fact was that until the very end, he still had this vision of games. He was the only one I knew who didn't calculate the variants, he saw them. In chess we calculate: he does this, then I do that. And Tal, through all the thick layers of variants, saw that around the 8th move, it will be so and so. Some people can see the mathematical formulae, they can imagine the whole picture instantly. An ordinary man has to calculate, to think this through, but they just see it all. It occurs in great musicians, great scientists. Tal was absolutely unique. His playing style was of course unrepeatable. I calculated the variants quickly enough, but these Tal insights were unique. He was a man in whose presence others sensed their mediocrity." source: www.chess.com/news/view/garry-kasparov-talks-about-mikhail-tal-and-soviet-chess-history-1340 Mikhail Tal has had various health issues throughout his adult life and passed away at the age of 55. For decades, he held a record unbeaten streak of 95 tournament games without a loss www.chess.com/news/view/ding-liren-breaks-mikhail-tals-95-game-undefeated-streak he also once casually solved the hardest chess puzzle that's still unreachable even for modern chess engines without access to robust cloud computing power or special hard-coded or heuristic solutions ua-cam.com/video/4NFdWvip7Sg/v-deo.html & www.chess.com/forum/view/more-puzzles/worlds-hardest-puzzle-ever and he also liked classical music and played piano despite a hand deformity from birth www.billwallchess.com/articles/tal.php
@@djokowitjaksono3371 If you haven't yet, check what transpires at 28:53 in this compilation - the people who were shocked at the very end are musicians who already watched Riyoko's entire show earlier, yet it took them this feat to finally understand that she's a true genius. And another thing I want you to check is this spontaneous improvisation Riyoko performed ua-cam.com/video/U1yfzzZ03L0/v-deo.html (my cinematic cut) as a transition between mellow atmospheric 'Detour Ahead' jazz standard and her original 'MIYABI' at this show that was broadcasted over FM radio and I recorded ua-cam.com/video/s5ipolImUy8/v-deo.html
On the classical side, Vladimir Horowitz is considered as one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century. His performances were unique and inimitable. Just like Riyoko, Horowitz believed that LIFE is an IMPROVISATION, he was a fun character and always improvised when he performed: "I improvise each time I am on the stage. I improvise, I never played twice the same. The conductors are always very much afraid because he said that you rehearse one way, you play in concert another way, I cannot do it all the way. Because everything what you do in life, especially in art, should be spontaneous, that's very important." source: ua-cam.com/video/KahSVDfnpd0/v-deo.html
Riyoko's channel: youtube.com/@riyopiano website: riyoko.jp
In this video you will find highlights from Riyoko's final show in NYC at her friend Shuya's (at 32:43) Japanese restaurant by the same name. There are plenty of genius moments on record here. Riyoko is mostly improvising on audience requests in unprepared manner (at 12:45), sometimes not knowing the requested song and had to listen to it and learn it by ear in real-time (at 11:03). Riyoko also performed her original 'MIYABI' (including intro improvisation at 19:16 and improvised solo at 21:57). For her encore, Riyoko performed an improvised mash-up of 'Fur Elise' (Ludwig van Beethoven) & 'La Campanella' (Niccolo Paganini / Franz Liszt). In the after-party Riyoko had fun improvising on random inputs (at 28:53) - if you still don't understand Riyoko's talent, this may shed some light on the fact that she's a true genius. This performance was recorded on the evening of 23 June 2024 at Shuya NYC.
Riyoko is a world-class Japanese Jazz pianist and composer who isn't bound by a single genre or style and has crossed classical, traditional Japanese, pop, EDM, and anime genre boundaries and styles in her compositions, arrangements, and performances. She's a classically trained prodigy and has been playing piano since age 4 and for well over 3 decades, latter 2 of which she dedicated to Jazz. She's renowned for her musicality, deep harmonic understanding, live performances full of energy with fluent improvisations, and delicate touch on the keys. Together with her talent and charming character she continues to proliferate Jazz and attract many fans from all over the world.
You can learn more about Riyoko and sample more of her music from playlists on my channel home. Riyoko doesn't really make short clips of her music and a lot of her music and performances are missing from her own channel due to Japanese copyright laws, where venues own all the rights to recordings on their premises. Because of that Riyoko can't freely share a lot of her music with us. But an artist like this should be shared with the world, so I'm making it rain on my channels.
After spending a good amount of time picking Riyoko's brain, it turns out that she has a unique case of auditory-visual synesthesia, where her emotional state and mood control the sound-color palettes she perceives. When she enters her synesthetic flow state, she is somewhere in her own world and just follows the colors as she plays. In this state, she's completely unaware of herself or her surroundings, doesn't remember and has no recollection of her improvisations at all. There also seems to be some form of positive feed-back loop amplification that she experiences from her own playing. What's more is that her broad-spectrum cognitive functions awaken and elevate after she has 2-3 half-full glasses of wine - that's her sweet spot from my own observations. Because of all this, Riyoko: 1. has different performance gears 2. always improvises, 3. never plays anything the same way twice, 4. sometimes chooses to play songs live that she has never played before because of the right feeling in the moment, 5. substitutes songs in her setlist to better fit her mood in the moment.
@logiotek I have problem to get you explanation,Its about language so Im not 100% understand,I must use google translate but sometimes Im quite busy.mostly Im not understand about synthesia.do you remember me? Im riyoko fan from Indonesia we agree that riyoko a world class jazz pianist. I Will Comment after finish translate.This artist makes me so corious
@@djokowitjaksono3371Setelah menghabiskan banyak waktu memilih otak Riyoko, ternyata dia memiliki kasus unik sinestesia pendengaran-visual, di mana keadaan emosi dan suasana hatinya mengendalikan palet warna suara yang dia rasakan. Saat dia memasuki kondisi aliran sinestetiknya, dia berada di suatu tempat di dunianya sendiri dan hanya mengikuti warna saat dia bermain. Dalam keadaan ini, dia sama sekali tidak menyadari dirinya atau lingkungannya, tidak ingat dan tidak ingat sama sekali improvisasinya. Tampaknya juga ada semacam amplifikasi umpan balik positif yang dia alami dari permainannya sendiri. Terlebih lagi, fungsi kognitif spektrum luasnya terbangun dan meningkat setelah dia meminum 2-3 gelas anggur setengah penuh - itulah titik terbaiknya dari pengamatan saya sendiri. Oleh karena itu, Riyoko: 1. memiliki perlengkapan penampilan yang berbeda-beda 2. selalu berimprovisasi, 3. tidak pernah memainkan sesuatu dengan cara yang sama dua kali, 4. terkadang memilih untuk memainkan lagu live yang belum pernah ia mainkan sebelumnya karena perasaan yang tepat pada saat itu , 5. mengganti lagu-lagu di setlistnya agar lebih sesuai dengan suasana hatinya saat itu.
@@LogioTek ok ok.now Im understand synestesia.
@@djokowitjaksono3371 Yes and in Riyoko's case, her synesthesia is unique from other cases because it's also connected to and controlled by her mood and emotional state. Alcohol makes her happy and in moderation broadly elevates her cognitive state (even her conversational English becomes better, etc.). When she's inspired and in a really great mood, she's unstoppable.
Ya, dan dalam kasus Riyoko, sinestesia yang dialaminya unik dibandingkan kasus lainnya karena sinestesia ini juga terhubung dan dikendalikan oleh suasana hati dan keadaan emosinya. Alkohol membuatnya bahagia dan dalam jumlah sedang dapat meningkatkan kondisi kognitifnya (bahkan percakapan bahasa Inggrisnya menjadi lebih baik, dll.). Ketika dia terinspirasi dan dalam suasana hati yang sangat baik, dia tidak dapat dihentikan.
လေးစားရပါသော တေးလုံး နဲ့ မင်းရဲ့ အံ့သြစရာကောင်းတဲ့ စန္ဒယားတီးတာကို အရမ်းကြိုက်တယ်... မျှဝေပေးတဲ့အတွက် ကျေးဇူးပါ။ ဥရောပမှ နွေးထွေးစွာ နှုတ်ခွန်းဆက်စကား။
Dear this "Song" and your wonderful piano playing very much... thanks for sharing! Warm greetings from Europe!
0:00 A Whole New World (from Disney's: Aladdin)
2:25 Someday My Prince Will Come (from Disney's: Snow White)
4:05 Fly Me To The Moon (Bart Howard)
6:54 Stella by Starlight (Victor Young)
9:29 Summer (Joe Hisaishi)
11:03 by ear: Tasogare (Mai Yamane)
12:45 Meguru Kisetus (from Studio Ghibli's: Kiki's Delivery Service)
13:44 Rouge no Dengon (from Studio Ghibli's: Kiki's Delivery Service)
14:35 Lupin the Third theme
17:02 Merry-Go-Round of Life (from Howl's Moving Castle)
18:09 Moonlight Sonata (Ludwig van Beethoven)
19:16 MIYABI: intro improvisation (Riyoko's original)
20:31 MIYABI: intro (Riyoko's original)
21:57 MIYABI: improvised solo (Riyoko's original)
24:37 MIYABI: finale (Riyoko's original)
25:25 encore: mash-up of Für Elise (Beethoven) & La Campanella (Paganini / Liszt)
28:53 after-party: having fun improvising on random inputs (sheds light on Riyoko's genius)
The best way I can give an analogy of Riyoko's talent is through Garry Kasparov (former chess world champion and perhaps the greatest chess player of all time in terms of legacy) talking about Mikhail Tal (former chess world champion from earlier era and a unique intuitive genius of the game of chess):
"There was a blitz tournament in Moscow, one month before Tal's death. He looked horribly. But Tal was still Tal. In this blitz tournament, I lost my only game to him. I retaliated in the second round, but the fact was that until the very end, he still had this vision of games. He was the only one I knew who didn't calculate the variants, he saw them. In chess we calculate: he does this, then I do that. And Tal, through all the thick layers of variants, saw that around the 8th move, it will be so and so. Some people can see the mathematical formulae, they can imagine the whole picture instantly. An ordinary man has to calculate, to think this through, but they just see it all. It occurs in great musicians, great scientists. Tal was absolutely unique. His playing style was of course unrepeatable. I calculated the variants quickly enough, but these Tal insights were unique. He was a man in whose presence others sensed their mediocrity." source: www.chess.com/news/view/garry-kasparov-talks-about-mikhail-tal-and-soviet-chess-history-1340
Mikhail Tal has had various health issues throughout his adult life and passed away at the age of 55. For decades, he held a record unbeaten streak of 95 tournament games without a loss www.chess.com/news/view/ding-liren-breaks-mikhail-tals-95-game-undefeated-streak he also once casually solved the hardest chess puzzle that's still unreachable even for modern chess engines without access to robust cloud computing power or special hard-coded or heuristic solutions ua-cam.com/video/4NFdWvip7Sg/v-deo.html & www.chess.com/forum/view/more-puzzles/worlds-hardest-puzzle-ever and he also liked classical music and played piano despite a hand deformity from birth www.billwallchess.com/articles/tal.php
@@LogioTek yes riyoko case just like this chess master
@@djokowitjaksono3371 If you haven't yet, check what transpires at 28:53 in this compilation - the people who were shocked at the very end are musicians who already watched Riyoko's entire show earlier, yet it took them this feat to finally understand that she's a true genius.
And another thing I want you to check is this spontaneous improvisation Riyoko performed ua-cam.com/video/U1yfzzZ03L0/v-deo.html (my cinematic cut) as a transition between mellow atmospheric 'Detour Ahead' jazz standard and her original 'MIYABI' at this show that was broadcasted over FM radio and I recorded ua-cam.com/video/s5ipolImUy8/v-deo.html
On the classical side, Vladimir Horowitz is considered as one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century. His performances were unique and inimitable. Just like Riyoko, Horowitz believed that LIFE is an IMPROVISATION, he was a fun character and always improvised when he performed:
"I improvise each time I am on the stage. I improvise, I never played twice the same. The conductors are always very much afraid because he said that you rehearse one way, you play in concert another way, I cannot do it all the way. Because everything what you do in life, especially in art, should be spontaneous, that's very important." source: ua-cam.com/video/KahSVDfnpd0/v-deo.html