Hikari Ōe
Hikari Ōe (大江 光, Ōe Hikari, born June 13, 1963) is a Japanese composer who has autism. He is the son of Japanese author Kenzaburō Ōe and Yukari Ikeuchi, the younger sister of director Juzo Itami.
Hikari Ōe was born developmentally disabled. Doctors tried to convince his parents to let their son die, but they refused to do so. Even after an operation, Ōe remained visually impaired, developmentally delayed, epileptic and with limited physical coordination. He does not speak much.
Ōe's parents report that his first response to a particular sound was when he was watching TV with his parents, and there was the sound of a bird singing, which he responded to. His parents were fascinated. They bought him a record with tracks of bird calls, in which a woman would say the name of each bird before the song of the bird would play. He listened to this record. Walking with his parents near their vacation home one day, they heard a bird singing, and he then imitated the voice of the woman who presented the bird songs in his child's records. This was how they got the idea to recruit a music teacher for Ōe. His parents arranged a piano teacher, Kumiko Tamura, for him. Instead of speaking, Ōe began to express his feelings in music and through musical composition. Eventually he was taught musical notation.
Podcasts:
Oe, Hikari
ALBUMS
- Music of Hikari Oe 1 released: 1992
Music of Hikari Oe 1
Released 1992- A Favourite Waltz
- Forest Ballad
- Nocturne
- Birthday Waltz
- Ave Maria
- Bluebird March
- Star
- Mister Prelude
- Waltz in A Minor
- Rondo
- Summer in Kitakaru
- Winter
- Requiem for M
- Lullaby for Keiko
- Dance
- Siciliano
- Länder
- Grief
- Magic Flute
- Sad Waltz
- Pied Piper
- Stream
- Barcarolle
- Hiroshima Requiem
- Graduation [With Variations]
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Ordinary Angel
by: Hue & CryI got the card, delivers the goods
Fills me with happiness
It's joy for a while 'till the first of the month
Then I'm chasing my tail again
I want a life that's bigger than me
'Cause I'm crushing myself to death
Tell you what I don't need
No heaven sent deity
'Cause I'm an ordinary angel
Winning tiny victories
And though the ordinary angels fly
Their wings weigh heavily
I try to be a daily genius
There's no idea beyond my reach
With all the angels and the geniuses
My company I'm gonna keep
I'm watching the news and I feel my face
Hanging like plasticene
Now I see the plot, I've got the plan
Every move is transparent to me
Profit and power's turning the world
And I'm leaning against the spin
Give me a vision please
And I don't mean heavenly
I am an ordinary angel child
Walking with the daily geniuses