artist: MINORU SATO & ASUNA
title: Texture In Glass Tubes And Reed Organ
label: Spekk
country: Japan
format: CD
title: Texture In Glass Tubes And Reed Organ
label: Spekk
country: Japan
format: CD
Track List:
1. Superposing five harmonic states
2. Weaving seven resonances: with raw stereo material
A first collaboration between Asuna and Minoru Sato. Sato is also known under the
monikers m/s and SASW, and has worked with the WrK experimental research collective
in Japan (which also includes Toshiya Tsunoda, Hiroyuki Iida, Jio Shimizu and Atsushi
Tominaga as its members). Sato has had work released by WrK, V2 Archief, among
others. Asuna has had work released by Lucky Kitchen, HEADZ, Students Of Decay and
and/OAR among others.
"We have been performing 'music' focusing on the materialistic nature (physical
phenomena) of sounds by utilizing the reed organ and glass tubes. Our music is
composed and constructed in such a way that however the phenomena we use reacts
with the circumstances of the space – the situation of the site including the audience –
our live performance involves and uses these conditions. Since these compositions are
studio recordings however, we decided to exclude acoustic spatial matters and the 'one-
time-ness' of live performances and instead composed the structure of resonances
within certain divisions of time. This is similar to textiles – weaving 'resonances', rather
than thread, in certain patterns.
'Superposing five harmonic states' was developed by recording five harmonic states
separately. Each of the harmonies was obtained by finding the characteristic sound
effects made by the relationship of the chords of the organ and resonances of the glass
tube. It was constructed by layering the recordings regularly in certain passages of time.
The resonances of the organ and the tubes are left as they were originally recorded and
the result is five separate recordings woven into a single piece.
'Weaving seven resonances: with raw stereo material' was developed by recording a
state where the resonances keep a subtle balance between the relationship of the organ
and the glass tubes. From the originally recorded material we found seven characteristic
frequencies and reconstructed them into a piece, by giving each individual volume a
transition using optionally assigned periodic variations. Thus this composition, made of a
single recording, is like a piece woven by one string.
If our live performances were to be evaluated as music where we are presented with
one-time incidents – i.e. reflecting the real time phenomena as ‘now and there’ in the
music – this CD could be evaluated as music to analyze the sound structure of these
phenomena and to make those aspects audible. It is intended to create a narrative about
the phenomena which resonate through constructed sounds." (Minoru Sato)
1. Superposing five harmonic states
2. Weaving seven resonances: with raw stereo material
A first collaboration between Asuna and Minoru Sato. Sato is also known under the
monikers m/s and SASW, and has worked with the WrK experimental research collective
in Japan (which also includes Toshiya Tsunoda, Hiroyuki Iida, Jio Shimizu and Atsushi
Tominaga as its members). Sato has had work released by WrK, V2 Archief, among
others. Asuna has had work released by Lucky Kitchen, HEADZ, Students Of Decay and
and/OAR among others.
"We have been performing 'music' focusing on the materialistic nature (physical
phenomena) of sounds by utilizing the reed organ and glass tubes. Our music is
composed and constructed in such a way that however the phenomena we use reacts
with the circumstances of the space – the situation of the site including the audience –
our live performance involves and uses these conditions. Since these compositions are
studio recordings however, we decided to exclude acoustic spatial matters and the 'one-
time-ness' of live performances and instead composed the structure of resonances
within certain divisions of time. This is similar to textiles – weaving 'resonances', rather
than thread, in certain patterns.
'Superposing five harmonic states' was developed by recording five harmonic states
separately. Each of the harmonies was obtained by finding the characteristic sound
effects made by the relationship of the chords of the organ and resonances of the glass
tube. It was constructed by layering the recordings regularly in certain passages of time.
The resonances of the organ and the tubes are left as they were originally recorded and
the result is five separate recordings woven into a single piece.
'Weaving seven resonances: with raw stereo material' was developed by recording a
state where the resonances keep a subtle balance between the relationship of the organ
and the glass tubes. From the originally recorded material we found seven characteristic
frequencies and reconstructed them into a piece, by giving each individual volume a
transition using optionally assigned periodic variations. Thus this composition, made of a
single recording, is like a piece woven by one string.
If our live performances were to be evaluated as music where we are presented with
one-time incidents – i.e. reflecting the real time phenomena as ‘now and there’ in the
music – this CD could be evaluated as music to analyze the sound structure of these
phenomena and to make those aspects audible. It is intended to create a narrative about
the phenomena which resonate through constructed sounds." (Minoru Sato)
