GIGA (caricatures)，for Guitar Solo（2019）

Commissioned by guitarist Daisuke Suzuki whom I deeply respect，Giga for guitar solo was written from September to October 2019 and dedicated to Daisuke. The duration of the performance is approximately ten minutes. It consists of three movements which have caricaturelike characters.

〈I〉Cantabile molto espressivo e rubato. Sempre “emotional” e “sexy feeling”.
This movement should be played very expressively and sexily in a squirmy manner but the codes，which are properly fixed，can be played by clutching the neck with your left hand. This is a movement of espressivo and eroticism in a tightly tied state.

〈II〉Nostalgia sentimental，molto espressivo e tempo rubato.
This movement is played with a bottleneck and a pick. The melody with pseudo Oriental melisma is played in such a way as to spin. Starting from monophony，the melody gets thicker and becomes monophony again at the end. As the bottleneck slides to change the pitch against the strings which are not pressed，the sound is released from the scale of the frets. This is an unstable sentimental song with nostalgia for the age of no frets.

〈III〉Presto con passione!
It begins with a dance in the low tone range in 6/8 time，in which sometimes irregular accents appears. It is slightly maniacal. After it gets quiet，rhythmical figures with sixteenth notes enhances the mood. But when it descends to the sixth string，the dance music easily becomes self-destructive and collapses. It is a meaningless dance. The coda of the whole begins with the harmonics. The codes of the first movement appear violently but they are denied by the sharp rubbing sound of the metal strings. Harmonics appears again and closes the work.