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With concentration, or elevated tension as he has called it, Akio Suzuki enters completely into the substance of sound, its emergence and its passing. What he does with sound may propose a rarefied world to many people, and yet it possesses a persuasive quality of rightness. One of the most difficult aspects of music and soundwork to explain is the concept of ‘right action’. How is that music can be evaluated almost immediately, just as quickly as a fire alarm or a baby’s cry?
When Akio performs, certain qualities (grace, warmth, a quiet authority of mind and action, an engagement with the vessel of nothingness through which sound can emerge) are evident as presences, as soon as he begins. He begins from a state we call silence, by listening, yet at the same time raises questions about our ideas of what this silence might be.
Time passes; fixity gives way to destruction; visual perfection is relinquished within the faintest of sound fields. As for the work, this ceremony returns us to nothing, ‘to the feeling of not knowing exactly what is before us’, so to the uncanny, to the shell-like ear found by the sea, the ‘ungraspable phantom of life’, the record of a haunting, time regained. The sound is a parabola, a finger tracing on skin, a brush point, bird in flight.
credits
releases June 7, 2024
Recorded in Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Studio I on 11, 12, 13 and 17 October 1994
Mixed By – Hans Peter Kuhn
Recorded By – Junko Wada
Mastered by Lawrence English at Negative Space
3CD box set of various jams by the avant-garde poet, percussionist, erstwhile VU drummer. Jim O'Rourke mastered the thing, so you know it sounds good. Lars Gotrich
Producer Yoyogi Koen takes inspiration from five demons from Japanese folklore, creating spooky, surreal soundscapes for them to inhabit. Bandcamp New & Notable Jul 20, 2021
The uncertainty of the next moment and the perfect choice of expression, intensity and tension. This record is not only of historical value, it is the equivalent of seeing a phenomenon that has never been seen before. A fundamental thing. jiristepan