Ryuichi Sakamoto Instagram – async – drowning
Ryuichi Sakamoto Shiro Takatani
async – drowning is a listening room created by Shiro Takatani for Sakamoto’s album, async. The six speakers of the 5.1 channel sound system surround the space to form a spatial soundscape, while monitors placed in front of the room generate Takatani’s images in real-time.
photo: async – drowning, Ryuichi Sakamoto | SOUND AND TIME, 2023, Image courtesy of @m__woods
“What I wanted to do with async was to first collect only the sounds that I wanted to hear.
The production started from wanting to pick up just the sounds that objects were emitting. I listened to various sounds using a contact microphone and rubbed or tapped non-instrumental “things.”
When I collected sounds this way and listened to S (Sound) and N (Noise)—which used to be acknowledged as opposites but now have become interchangeable—I realized that M (Music) was missing. A desire arose in me that I needed M in the sounds I wanted to hear. I became conscious to the fact that M was necessary in one form or another and I began to include elements of M in my composition.
I want people to immerse themselves in the sounds in an environment that is the same as the one I had while listening and creating.”
– Ryuichi Sakamoto
(Excerpt from Bijutsu Techo, interview & text by Shigeru Matsui)
#shirotakatani #ryuichisakamoto #skmtnews #asyncdrowing | Posted on 11/Nov/2023 00:29:32
