artist: TETSUYA UMEDA
title: Ocket
label: Improvised Music From Japan
country: Japan
format: CD

"This is the debut album of Osaka-based sound artist Tetsuya Umeda (born in
1980). Active mainly in the fields of sound installation and performance, Umeda
presents works that invariably explore the character of a particular space through
physical phenomena and electricity-induced minimal movement. Ocket is made
up of nine performance works produced and recorded in 2003-04 and featuring
Umeda's self-made speaker tool. The impression of viewing the sound from the
space above results in an effect that is closer to 'observation' than to
'performing.' Through this experimental endeavor, each track attains an
unimaginably beautiful, prismatic resonance. Stimulating."  (IMFJ)