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ASUNA

Live – 100 Keyboards (Moire Resonance by Interference Frequency)

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Biography

ASUNA is Japanese sound artist who has recently been reevaluated in the experimental music and art scene in recent years. Since teens in the late 90s, he has been producing in the experimental and improvised music scene in Tokyo. His works is simultaneously an interdisciplinary perspective in art and a hardcore/punk and a sweet, musical orientation that seems to be its opposite. His signature work was “Each Organ” (2002), a sound installation that reinterpreted the concept of things from etymology. Then also released an album of reed organ drones and idyllic electronics, “Organ Leaf” (2003), on Lucky Kitchen in Spain, and has since released on labels around the world such as Meeuw Muzak, Senufo Editions, Faitiche, 12k and etc. He also often toured with “100 Toys” avant-garde performance, which featured a large number of toys.
ASUNA’s recent work “100 Keyboards” is a site-specific performance featuring over 100 toy-keyboards. This focuses on physical acoustic phenomena such as interference sound and moire resonance. This work has performed at many international art festivals and theaters such as BAM in New York.

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3. What are 5 of your favourite albums of all time?

In case of today’s feelings, (and is it ok for 10?)

Sven-Åke Johansson ‎- Schlingerland / Dynamische Schwingungen – from Atavistic.
Terry Fox ‎- Ataraxia – from Plate Lunch.
Rolf Julius – Early Works Vol.1 – from Fringes Recordings.
Wendy Gondeln (Albert Oehlen) ‎- Fracking – from Magazine.
Max Goldt / Felix Kubin / Mark Boombastik – Fog Frog / Ladies Ladies – from Meeuw Muzak.
Stephan Mathieu & Ekkehard Ehlers – Heroin – from Staalplaat.
Jan Jelinek – Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records – from ~scape.
Sack Und Blumm – Shy Noon – from Gefriem.
Niobe ‎- Tse Tse – from Sonig.
Carl Orff & Gunild Keetman ‎/ Orff-Schulwerk – Musik Für Kinder Teil II – from Columbia.

11+3 QUESTIONNAIREhttps://www.digitalinberlin.de/asuna/digitalinberlin.de

Taking a slow walk around the chalk circle that marked the perimeter of the performance, I pictured other people, elsewhere in Brooklyn, also getting lost in sound. Undoubtedly, there were some immersed in meditative sound baths with chakra-tuned crystal bowls and gongs. There were also bedroom music producers hunched over toylike electronics, making intentionally low-fidelity grooves. But here, the lo-fi toys were the sound bath, and it did indeed feel therapeutic.

Jacob GordonEDITOR’S CHOICE ASUNA’s 100 Keyboardshttps://bombmagazine.org/articles/2021/12/01/asunas-100-keyboards/ – bombmagazine.org

In the site-specific performance, which he first devised nearly two decades ago, Asuna moves between the toy instruments, arranged in concentric circles on the floor, and uses popsicle sticks to hold down the same, single key on each one. The notes—which vary slightly due to shifts in pitch as the second-rate devices’ batteries gradually wear out—build into a hypnotic drone known as a moiré pattern, in which layers of similarly pitched timbres combine and collide to create a meditative, sublime hum. We recently spoke with Asuna about the sonic experience, and how it might help reframe our thinking during these uncertain times.

Michelle ErdenesanaaA Resonant Sound Performance, Created Using Children’s Toy Instrumentshttps://www.slowdown.media/article/asuna-100-keyboards – slowdown.media

¿Por qué haces música Ambient?​

A decir verdad, cuando era adolescente tocaba en una banda de noise, hardcore y junk. Luego, a fines de los 90, cuando comencé a hacer mi música solista, la combinación de música electrónica basada en computadora con instrumentos acústicos y grabaciones de campo fue muy emocionante para mí. A partir de ahí me interesé por las texturas y los fenómenos sonoros. Comencé a hacer música de drone ambiental basada en reed organ y electrónica de computadora. En 2003, lancé mi álbum debut solista a través de un sello europeo llamado Lucky Kitchen.

​Me vi muy influenciado por Alejandra Salinas y Aeron Bergman de Lucky Kitchen, el sello que lanzó mi primer álbum. Así es como comencé a interactuar con la tecnología de una manera crítica e idílica, y cómo obtuve otros puntos de vista narrativos sobre el folk. En lugar de música, la idea y el pensamiento eran el «Ambient» en sí mismo.

Juan Cruz Molas y MolasUN TIEMPO TRANQUILOhttps://www.subterraneomag.com/asuna-arashi/ – www.subterraneomag.com
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