A retiree in Chiba, Japan, sharing digital performances of classical music created with virtual instruments. After retirement, I began DTM and also started learning the cello—both of which continue to bring joy to my daily life.
Beethoven’s piano sonatas once felt utterly out of reach—I had barely touched a piano in my youth. But thanks to MIDI programming, I now find myself, well into my eighties, able to produce something that is at least somewhat listenable.
The cello, on the other handwas love at first sight, though at my age it quickly became less of a grand pursuit and more of an “anti-aging exercise.”
Still, music offers many kinds of joy, and I spend time with it every day, telling myself, “little by little, someday.”
Online I go by “Chibanoinkyo”—a playful nickname that simply means “a retiree in Chiba.”