Reviews
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Takanobu Hoshino – Untitled
At one time Japanese sound artist Takanobu Hoshino’s art was seemingly concerned with the crackling Geiger counter air of his home city Fukushima. The ubiquitous residual glint of radioactivity permeated his creations, for example the CD ‘Fukushima’, a collaboration with Roel Meelkop,…
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Takanobu Hoshino – Ancient star story of Asia
Takanobu Hoshino’s art, whether painting, photography, sculpture or sound, is an art of subtle clarity and clear simplicity. This isn’t to say the results are without depth or mystery however, because a consistency of intention lies at the heart…
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Luigi Turra – Alea
When silence is revealed as a translucent, almost imperceptible and delicate vibratory fabric, any sonic phenomenon, even the dimmest murmur, can be felt as a yell of reality. Realities, perhaps, since they get expressed as multiplicities, ownerless storytelling; aimless, at the pace of…
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Yui Onodera – semi lattice
Sound appears as ghostly seeds of memory that eventually unfold as a universe in which there are infinite listening possibilities. Today’s compositional approaches, such as the one subtlety identified in Yui Onodera clearly expose the multi-dimensional experience of the sonic, always calling for a…
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Jeph Jerman – 34°111’3-N 111°95’4-W
The way images and objects relate to sound recordings is a constant two way flow. I’m currently listening to 34°111’3-N 111°95’4-W by Jeph Jerman on the Mappa label, and at the same time I’m looking at a photograph of the…
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Stephan Mathieu – Before Nostromo
Fantasy: is it beyond visual and sonic? Listening: is it beyond visual and sonic? Is listening a fantasy? What’s what is actually hidden in the sonic texture created in the inmmersive situation to which Before Nostromo leads? Very far from being conclusive,…