Q024:
Leading on from Buddhism is the bands philosophy of space and UFOs. You mentioned hearing sounds as a youth and believing they came from UFOs. Do you still hear those sounds? Your music at times has been an attempt to recreate these sounds. Do the sounds you hear change/evolve as you come closer to reproducing them? Are the sounds you hear the same as 'absolute music'? You once held a UFO summoning ceremony in Japan. Have you ever seen a UFO? Have you ever tried to perform live at mystical sites like Stonehenge or similar places in Japan to conduct the energy of these places?
A024:
My perception of the cosmos is very different from the everyday concept of it. Now I can hear very clearly the sounds that I thought were messages from UFOs when I was a child. For me, "absolute music" can only be the performance of a heavenly orchestra I heard once in a dream a long time ago. In this dream, the orchestra played many bizarre instruments which I have never seen, and their sound was like nothing I have ever heard. They repeated short and simple melodies over and over again, but the sound was unbelievably beautiful. If I myself were ever able to perfectly reproduce this performance, then I would stop playing music entirely - i would never need to play it again.
The UFO summoning ceremony that you mentioned was simply an event where we tried to catch sight of a UFO. My only interest in religious sites is as repositories of cultural or artistic objects. But I am intersted in mysterious or mystical sites - I wonder why it is that these specific places have some weird air about them. But I don't see why there would be in any benefit to be gained from playing there. We all totally loathe any kind of dubious "magical" or "esoteric" vibe. I used to live in a Japanese beatnik commune, and back then we used to play at temples and other religious sites all over the country. But I felt that just by playing there you all got wrapped up in a weird dubious atmosphere, the audience too. An effect totally opposite to what I normally want to achieve. We believe in something far more pure.
I have seen UFOs on many occasions, but I don't like to draw any links between UFOs and aliens or spacement or any of that shit. I only see them as mysterious and impossible to understand phenonena.