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that’s permanent. With a recording, you can listen back, and if you thought you misheard something you can always come back and hear it again. You can hear more detail, and you can also work on more detail. It’s not possible always to perceive so much from an audience point of view when you sit in a concert hall than when you listen with high resolution equipment to every single note. It’s as if you are in the best possible seat whenever you listen to a recording. In some ways, I prefer recordings. But then in other ways, I need performances just because I also enjoy performing. They are two different art forms, almost.
DH: In addition to being a professional concert pianist, you’re also a very talented photographer. Have you found any connections between those two aspects of your life?
YS: Well, I don’t know about talented . . . I just take
lots of pictures. I don’t know if there is a connection between photography and music, but for me they are slightly opposite. Performance is very momentary. It’s over in an hour or two, but a photograph is a moment that you capture in the camera, something you can hold on to. In a way, it’s more like making a music recording. One of my anxieties about life is that moments pass, and you don’t have a possibility to hold on to them. I think making recordings and having a camera are two possibilities to capture a moment in time. I take lots of pictures of my family, of people, of life, but one of my most special interests is just being in nature with a camera. It’s a little bit like meditation. It’s very calming. It’s a nice way for me to wind down after a concert, if I just go out and take photos. I think I need it just to stay sane.
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