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Kosame (kk024)

by Ken Ikeda

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Text by Ken Ikeda

For the past few years, I've been approaching the idea of taking sine waves (which is eminent in techno and ambient music) into the inner side of human thought, reinterpreting the circulating harmonic overtones within the vagueness of the word "Yuragi (=fluctuation)". But under the global economy, techno or so-called ambient music were standardized to a somewhat convenient product, and there seems to be no room left for the vagueness. But again, these sounds took birth by sampling and simulating pre-existing music. At the time, there were at least some critical elements left. Around the last album, I felt the limit of using techno-ish sine waves. I decided to go on a venture listening closely and touching the sounds surrounded in personal daily life, to re-recognize "time" and "space" as a sound artist from the point where the sounds evolve and fade away. Raindrops on the window, a squeaking pillar, an opened door, stairs, boiling water in the kitchen.... There were Yuragi everywhere. I couldn't help myself being fascinated by the subtle, yet dense frequencies within the nature such as the shore, and mountain trees. It was not just by sampling this myriad of sounds, but the challenge of how distant I could get from the conventional ideas and sense of values of music, by taking it as a movement of myself as an individual.

This time again, I used the handmade wood & rubber instrument (SD404) to form an opposite relationship between "performer" and "nature" (or "captured sounds" versus "unable-to-capture sounds"). When you actually play it, you can feel the Yuragi within the instrument itself. The shades of the effects like "cutoff" and "resonance" essentially becomes closer to the beauty of nature. "Kosame" is an experiment to set the sounds free from pre-existing frames, by overlapping the randomly listed nature sounds and the improvisational elements of an individual. Yuragi arises from these two unique movements without going against each other.

ニューヨーク在住のサウンド・アーティスト、池田謙による4thアルバムが登場!本作は前作をさらに探求したかのような内容で、木とゴムによる創作楽器、窓につく雨、柱のきしみ、ドア、階段・・日常の身の回りのあらゆる「揺らぎ」に焦点をあて奏でた、プリミティヴかつ、唯一無比のマイクロスコピック「揺らぎ」集。「既存の枠組みを越えて音を開放する試みのその果ては、自然の美しさに限りなく近づいて行くこと」と明言する彼のサウンドは、もはや宇宙と一体化したような凄みさえ感じる、とてつもないエネルギーを放っている。

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released March 25, 2010

KK024
All music composed and performed by Ken Ikeda, 2007-2009 in New York and Tokyo.
Playing original instruments SD404, SD405, SD406, SD407, SD408
and prepared toy piano, quena, charango, shamisen, DX7, SEM, Juno106, etc ..

mastered by zengyo
English translation by Will Long
photography by Karou Sato
artwork design by mondii

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