Yeah twitter full of em. I'm more offended these "equality for all" people are doing the exact opposite thing and ended up being racist at the same time.
The concept of 'cultural appropriation' is one of the most bigoted and racist things in existence it is cultural dominance at it's worst. Virtue signalers who kvetch about it think nothing about other cultures wearing western styles, tools, interments, music etc. there culture is ok to export to the world but if some other culture tries to export some of there great achievements you have these grievance study types raze hell and do every thing they can to shut it down. It really pisses me off.
He is one of the few masters still alive today. He’s been trained since 9 by the Japanese artists. Y’all need to keep your ignorant comments to yourselves.
"one of the few masters still alive today", there are more masters today than 50 years ago ... there are shakuhachi schools all over the world now with masters (shihan) and dai shihan ("high master").
@@zargle5924 I'm just saying that "one of the few masters still alive today" is not true, I teach shakuhachi myself and I personally know dozens of shihan who teach
@@saber2802 who cares? The guys a musical genius and he's been blessed by masters of this instrument. What does the lack of melanin have to do with anything?
Granted, nowadays E3 is usually just a long string of disappointments, Todd Howard spouting bullshit and "out of season April Fools jokes". But this guy is pretty damn cool.
@@SaturnTubes Not most people, only a loud minority of morons who either got offended that he was white or couldn't recognize the skill and talent required for a performance like this. Or both.
@@SaturnTubes His performance was excellent at least with my standards. He is truly dedicating for the art. Peoples ( mostly just random dudes on the Internet) were raging just because he is not japanese. Even japanese themselves consider him as a master and have no problem with his ethnicity.
Guys, this is Cornelius Boots. One of the last MASTER of this instrument. This guy decided to gif his life for his passion of music. Props Cornelius, you doing amazing!!😤👌👌👌
@@casthedemon This is not a game, it's a music performance, which is not at all related to games. Also, not every game is art, if you call CoD art, you are just stupid.
@@asgoritolinasgoritolino7708 it's not at all related to games?..... gee. I wonder where this is taking place? And I wonder who hired him? If you don't think art is subjective you're just stupid.
@@asgoritolinasgoritolino7708 also, I wonder what's that in the game playing out of my speakers? It's not like they hired 2 composers to create music or anything.
He's one of hundreds if not thousands of players with the mid-level 師範 grade, which is the lowest of the "teacher" levels but is often misleadingly translated "master".
This composer gets flak, but Luna Lee covers ACDC and Hendrix in western clothing around the same time and gets called a genius. They're both amazing artists. Stop looking at them, and listen to them. They deserve respect, not a bunch of drama over nationality.
Fun fact I used to really wanna master the didgeridoo but I knew people would tell me that I'm culturally appropriating. This inspired me to fly to New Zealand and now I'm currently learning straight from the source
@@turinmormegil7715 it does for me. If there's to much hair where the flute is pressed in under my lower lip then it can irritating. I think it would only affect the sound of your playing if you had a massive bushy beard lol
The shakuhachi, an ancient Japanese flute traditionally made of bamboo, has been played for millennia. They were traditionally played by komusō, monks that practiced the Fuke school of Zen Buddhism. Unfortunately, the shakuhachi is dying out, and there are only a few masters left in this world that play this obscure instrument. Cornelius Boots is one of them. He is keeping the shakuhachi's music alive and was taught by masters as well.
@Gareth M these people should be considered too dumb to be left out in the world. Trust me, till 2050 we wont even have genders anymore, and if you do call someone by his gender you will be acussed of being sexist and accused to 15years of prison
@@corboselena4260 you see there are these two things called the 1st & 2nd Amendments of the United States Constitution that would fight that argument into the dirt. Freedom of Speech, and the Right to Bear Arms(when the SJW hatemob comes for them)
this is cultural apreciation, this man went to japan and studied this art with his heart, he's one of the few masters of this ancient instrument. he loved the culture so much he dedicates his life to it. this is why twitter will always be wrong
Everything about this and the game itself was a cultural homage to japan. They loved the game so much that there was stock shortages of the game, got a score of 9.3(the highest any game got) on metacritic and they wanted the directors of the game to be ambassadors of the island. Not to mention that its fans helped fund the restoration of a shrine in Tsushima.
@@zelbm wtf do you know about Japanese culture? Ghost of Tsushima was a love letter to the chanbara genre, which is a cultural part of Japan to the present day.
Missed this during E3, but had to come see it after hearing all the whiny nonsense. This is simply incredible, and the reason he (a white man) is there is because he's one of the only people in the world who can play that thing.
This was actually PSX, I was there. I felt a great sense of pride as a gamer to actually see people with a passion and respect for the culture. I'll take this over any sjw appropriation or redoing of history bullshit.
@@IsaacW. exactly, i bought one not long after getting ghost of tsushima as i was so taken with the sound of it. I've been playing it ever since lol such an amazing instrument, so good for your health.
@@Whiskey0880 I'm too poor to afford one but I'm planning to make myself one soon 😂. They're actually surprisingly simple to make according to some guy on youtube
@@IsaacW. they ain't cheap that's for sure! I bought one of amazon for 130 pounds which is quite reasonable, it's like a ghost tsushima replica and it makes a great sound. Also got a yuu from a japanese outlet for 80 pounds which is great to have as a back up, don't have to worry about cracking and what not, very durable. I dunno about easy to make bud, i watched a japanese guy making one, watched him choose a piece of bamboo out in the forest and cut it out, then go through steps of heating it then hacking it up lol, looked like a very involved procedure, but that said i hope you manage to make one and get it sounding sweet.
It's so nice that racial and cultural separatism has made a strong comeback thanks to the concept of 'cultural appropriation'. I remember when multiculturalism was considered anti-racist. But now respecting other races and cultures, and not knowing your place and keeping to your own, is considered racist.
@@kevinbaboolal4225 The OP was making a snide/sarcastic remark on the negative connotations of "cultural appropriation" that people keep accusing others of doing, even if the people are doing it out of respect and honour, not for malevolent or even racist reasons.
if you say "this still sucks" try playing the flute.. i dare you.. try to get a single tone out ouf it.. they could sinply had added some hall and reverb to it..
I mean, if its that hard to play, but it still sounds worse than a normal flute, then it's probably just a shitty instrument in general, regardless of the musician
@@cedric15773 Look up 'honkyoku' (not that you're actually gonna do that :), but maybe you are) You can't compare shakuhachi with western concert flute. A lot of it is subjective. What you like is not the same as another person. And shakuhachi initially isn't about a consistent sound like western instruments. The focus are dynamics and primarily sound colors. A 7 hole modern shakuhachi loses a lot of its unique sounds and actually diminishes the instrument. The early predecessor, dating back a millenium ago, of the shakuhachi actually has 6 holes instead of 5. A chi meri on a western tuned shakuhachi has about the same pitch as an ou, but they are two distinctly different 'tones', with their own notation. Initially it wasn't even used as a musical instrument. If you want western sounding shakuhachi look up Tozan masters playing jiari like Kominato Akihisa, Kinohachi (played shakuhachi for Naruto) or Daisuke Kaminaga (shakuhachi player in Wagakki band) Cornelius Boots solely plays unlacquered jinashi, trained in primarily the Dokyoku lineage and I believe Atsuya Okudas/Kiku Day Zensabo school. Kiku Day is a friendly women devoted to jinashi, whom I once had the pleasure to meet in real life. So no, it's not what you expect. There is more out there then just western 12 equal temperament tone music. You grew up associating certain timbres with certain feelings and thoughts. Your upbringing created a lot of the associations you have with certain instruments being inherently 'better' then others. But in the same way isolated tribes don't experience major as 'happy' and minor as 'sad', neither can you descern the intricacies and timbral richness of the shakuhachi. When I played pvc shakuhachi for about a few months I thought I knew most there was to know about the instrument. I'm now 5 years later, and HECK WHAT WAS I WRONG. Almost full blown Dunning-Kruger effect going on there. 'World' 'music' in a sense is broader then all western genres combined. And again, shakuhachi is not about sounding 'good'. It's a Rinzai Zen tradition embraced by mendicant monks called komuso (monks of nothingness) of the fuke shu sect, who wore woven baskets (tengai) to create an ego loss (compare it to psychedelic trips or something, they try to achieve a similar state) and wander the country (one of few people permitted to do so back in feudal Japan, de facto ruled by shogun; through the honsoku license) It traces its roots back to China around the 800's, with the Chan monk Fuke who preached enlightenment through the ringing of a bell. Chohaku - sounds like a Japanese name, probably Japanized later on, but I'm talking about a Chinese person here, whether he actually existed/lived or solely is a legend alongside Fuke, I don't known - I quote from a book I own: "In an area called Zhenzhou at the time, there was a person called Chohaku who had a constant desire for Master Fuke's great virtue, taking delight in the mysterious sound of his bell. Wanting to imitate this sound, he carefully selected and cut off a piece of bamboo, bored some holes ((obviously not with an electric drill but a hand bore, just in case you didn't know these ever existed/how they bored holes back in the day, they are still used today sometimes though)) , and tried playing it. At long last, he was able to make a sound like that of the bell. He called this Kyotaku (empty bell), and made it the dharma instrument of the later Fuke sect." Why he didn't just make a bell out of metal himself, or use a pre-existing one, I don't know. Probably just a fun story/legend to give some kind of meaning to the concept of the 'bell sound' that constantly comes up in shakuhachi repertoires. Lots of 'Reibo/Reiho' pieces are found throughout most lineages/ryu, a huge reference to Fuke ringing his bell. Reibo gets loosely translated to 'yearning for the bell'. A practice lots of shakuhachi players partake in is 'ro buki', ro being the ground note (all holes closed, kari position, actual pitch differs from one shakuhachi to the other) and buki translating to 'to blow/breathe'. Literally 'breathing' the same 'note/tone' for 10 minutes straight. Like Fuke rang his bell into nothingness, shakuhachi players blow into nothingness. Mindful, similar to sitting meditators practicing shikantaza ('zazen'), in say the Soto Zen traditions. Again, not a 'western musical' practice imho. The meditation/breathing instrument was later on also picked up by ex-samurai called ronin (samurai with no daimyo), the Oie Ryu and Nezasa Ha traditions of Northern Honshu (Aomori, Tsugari, Hirosaki regions) later came together in the distinct Kinpu/Kimpu Ryu lineage. Other komuso temple traditions (Fudaiji, Futaiken, Ichigetsuji, Myoanji, Ryogenji, etc.) live forth in more common schools like Kinko Ryu, Myoan Shimpu Ryu, Taizan Ha, Seien Ryu, ... With 'myo-an' actually being a term dating back to Fuke, it kind of translates to (bright & dark). The taijitu ('yin & yang') principles in shakuhachi primarily are expressed through meri and kari, meri sounds darker, less robust/less strong sound. Some masters say that tsu dai meri specifically is the 'soul' of shakuhachi. That's a big difference with concert flute, there every note sounds like a flute, on a western flute you WANT the notes to sound timbrally similar, none 'out of place' or 'bad' like you call them. On shakuhachi every 'note' has a distinctive character/timbre. So the 5 holes, alongside a tapered bore are crucial to its haunting/ethereal sounds said to be able to replicate 'the ten thousand sounds of nature'. I personally like to call the shakuhachi an acoustic synthesizer in that sense. But more then half of the repertoires got lost at the end of the Edo period/with the Meïji restoration, where lots of Buddhist artefacts were destroyed to get replaced by western customs I guess. Kind of like the scenario/time period of the Last Samurai (a movie soundtrack full of shakuhachi, imagine that movie with western Boehm concert flute instead of shakuhachi! ...). All sounds are just what they are. There is also an emphasis on the absence of sound/silence (ma) and where to breathe. For example in the Kinpu Ryu lineage I'm mostly interested, Shirabe consists of 9 breaths, Sagari Ha of 18 Breaths, Tori of 12, Nagashi Reibo of 48, Koku of 170, etc. You might perceive muraiki as a lousy noisy, unclear sound. But to create harsh sounds like that actually takes years of practice. Whether you can believe that or not. Looking it as a musical instrument, with western musical expectations. Is like comparing a fish with a monkey, in their ability to climb a tree. Which doesn't necessarily imply that modern jiari/jinashi shakuhachi cannot be used to play contemporary and/or - in ensemble - with western music! The instruments roots just weren't as a musical instrument. People play music on a saw, but it was initially used as a workman's tool. Or a pot of mayonaise. People play music on shakuhachi, but it was initially meant as device for suizen (breathing meditation). Some myoan traditions still played in temples to this day, utilise shakuhachi tuned with the traditional 'towari' method. So its kari tones don't even play in a western pentatonic scale without constant adjustments. It descends form a time period where western music was totally unheard of in Japan. (not that playing music was the intention of these monks in the first place, again!) Only later on 19th century did it get westernized and systems for beat/rhythm notation got developed. First in sankyoku (pieces played in ensemble with koto & shamisen), later 20th century with basically all other instruments (synthesizers, guitar, orchestra...) So yes, traditional temple music is 'out of key and not nice sounding' to pure western tuned ears and hence inferior to the western concert flute. But now try to play honkyoku on a western concert flute... Or saw a wooden planck/some timber with your saxophone. *** I re-read that comment I initially wrote and western music wasn't totally unheard of in mostly isolated Japan back then like I claimed. But it wasn't like mainstream there in the Edo period either. Master Justin Senryu responded to me in a Facebook shakuhachi group once about traditional tuning systems, the sharp chi with a bigger 3rd hole relative to the others on Edo Flutes and how that translates to pitch in honkyoku when played today on modern Flutes, intervals, scale/modes, the comparison with modern western tuned shakuhachi and such. There he mentioned the 'viola da gamba' and certain classical music that was known of and might've influenced Japanese sound makers, composers, musicians and alike as early as the Edo period. Before the westernization & industrialization of Japan. For all I thought of, Japan seemed like a secluded isolated big island nation with internal conflicts (shogun VS emperor for example) and a xenophobic ootlook, trying to not mingle too much with the outside world. The Dutch back then literally could only trade with Japanese merchants on 1 specific artifical island that was relatively small. Yet there was already some western influence back then. Interesting to say the least in my opinion.
TIL some people are accusing this guy of being Steve Sinclair and not Cornelius Boots, because Steve has set his Twitter avatar to a pic of this. In related news, I am the letter m.
@@DieBlutigeLynn in basic terms , do anything vaguely offensive and SJWs will call you racist sexist or transphobic ect. but even if you didn't say something offensive they may interpret what you said to be so.
It's a bit odd. Some people actually had the nerve to say, Ghost of Tsushima is "cultural appropriation" because it was made by an american studio. What about Metal Gear, Devil may cry, Dragon's Dogma, Vanquish, Resident Evil? Japan has been doing the same thing for over 20 years, and no one says a word about cultural appropriation. Smells like hypocrisy to me.
He really is good, people just didn't understand what the music is. It's supposed to sound like this and he kicks ass. He is one of the few people keeping this piece of culture alive
I have played a similar woodflute, and I don't think people realize how difficult it is to make a sound at all, much less with such clarity of sound and precision.
Here i meet Cornelius's magic Watching E3. The best ever🎉🎉Cornelius😊 I love his unique style, i heard many others masters playing shakuhachi but Cornelius has his own touch and soul 🎉🎉😊😊❤❤
So many people tried to call this cultural appropriation, never realizing that this man is a master. Then they said that he still shouldn't wear traditional clothing because it's disrespectful. I get this sometimes when I practice tameshigiri in full kimono. The answer is that it would be disrespectful to do it in board shorts and a wife beater. It's sacred and you SHOULD dress for the occasion. As a student of shakuhachi, one more thing I'd like to ad to the argument. I would be willing to bet that his instrument cost somewhere between $20,000 and even perhaps $60,000 dollars. At THAT point, is he just some rando? Again, as a student of the instrument, who can play basic songs, doing what he is doing, is beyond a dream. It is literally like listening to a Prince solo. The more you understand, the more you appreciate.
The fact that we live in a day and age where it is broadly acceptable for somebody from one place and culture to up and decide to master another culture's traditional art is just astounding and I'm here for it.
When one of my friends told me he won't play Ghost of Tsushima, he showed me this clip. I looked into it, he turned out to be a master of the shakuhachi flute and he is praised for it - by the Japanese and music community alike. I gave him this information, he just said: "oh", he didn't follow it up with an argument, don't know what happened after this, we just never talked about it again. I think he's cringing about it now. Lmao.
2:01 Of course, that guy don't care for instruments. Just a loser who likes Destiny 2 and being on the phone. People don't appreciate listening someone with the instrument.
Bro you don't know what they were doing on their phone, maybe they were testing their mom about something, maybe they were trying to schedule a doctor's visit. Whatever it was it could be bad or good. Instead of judging the person for their actions, you should have just ignored it because it doesn't affect you, and it literally hurts nobody.
To everybody coming here during the war between the Last of Us 2 and Ghost of Tsushima, let me say this: Ignore the war. Ignore the hatred. Just sit back, relax, enjoy your favorite game, and enjoy this beautiful performance by one of the few masters of this wonderful instrument.
A superb performance by a shakuhachi master! And such a fitting instrument for the game's OST... can't wait until this is released so that i can experience the OST alongside actual gameplay!
No, because there was no such thing as rock n roll back then. In those days long ago he would be the Master Flute Rocker or the King Flautist, which are similar to rockstars but different enough so that I wanted to reply with an explanation.
Great job bro, your keeping a tradition alive thats very beautiful, you are what should be considered a step in pushing traditional boundaries, and thank you for putting your life into the instrument, the game wouldnt be the same without it 😀
i didnt see this live but after hearing about all the BS i had to see this master in action. And i gotta say, im sick of all this virtue signaling culture. A rare live performance of a beautiful instrument and art performed by a Master but the idiots on twitter wrote this man off because of skin color
I can’t believe I only seen this topic now but dude wtf this is a masterpiece!! Art is Art. Art is an expression that comes within a human being with their own twist and improvisation. But well done!
People need to chill the fuck out with their whinning about cultural approbiation, just because an other culture invented something doesn't mean you can't use it. All you do is preventing other people to immerse into other cultures by making them feel guilty and ashamed for doing so. You are dividing people even more and make them hesitate to get in contact with other cultures. That's the complete opposite of what you are trying to do making people less open and make them distancing even more from other cultures.
I think the reason why people think this sucked is because they're by and large are unaccustomed to this instrument in particular. I felt like the subtle sound of wind intake makes it feels much more human and immersive, like something you'd hear your teammate play during the calm before the raging storm of war
As you can see from the comments the outrage about his roots was in full effect. Now they pretend being a black dude in AC set in Japan is completely fine. Alexa play Cornelius Boots.
@@Orbowitz Black Paige and not a samurai. Thomas "White Cracker" Lockley made that up to try and fantasize a near myth and too minor mentioned black person. He's a lying white basterd.
@@BrimstoneSociety-js6po Yasuka was by all means a samurai or at minimum part of the bushi warrior class. I wasn't defending Ubisoft. I was simply stating that only one existed in history. Kinda like William Adams, an Englishman who served as a warrior under Tokugawa shogunate.
I waited on this guy at the restaurant I work at last night. The Crazy part is I saw this picture of him on one of those "Facebook person got owned" lists and someone complaining he wasn't japanese, the day before I met him. Go to work the next day and end up being his waiter. Shit blew my mind.
I feel like this would just sound much better in a studio or in a group master or no master 10 of those in a small space has got to be a whole nother level
This guy is a genuine master at this instrument. Its just that these uncultured plebeians wouldn't know about it or appreciate it. Which is a bad move on Sony's part. Why would they expect most gamers to even care about classical japanese instruments.
I'm glad they allowed him to play. It gave me interest in it. Even purchased Mr. Boots albums. Dude is a beast and I've developed an interest in the instrument.
Man, sucks that we won't see any weird stage performances this year. No hate to this guy of course, I don't know shit about this instrument but his breath control and finger speed is fuckin impressive.
AortaPlatinum The instrument he is using is one of the hardest to master in the woodwind world and he is considered a master at his music, but wrong crowd bad idea to play traditional japanese music in front of a bunch of drunk fat gamers.
