Listen: Japanese composer Ryoko Akama
June 2013
Ryoko Akama with her self-built Box of Austere. Photo by Hali Santamas
Akama's work takes in influences like the work of composers Alvin Lucier and Eliane Radigue, sustained tones and the slippages of language. Read more about it in The Wire 353.
| Ryoko Akama - Gussuli | 0:09:48 |
| Ryoko Akama - FIR3 | 0:11:22 |
| Ryoko Akama - Music On A Long Thin Wire | 0:05:05 |
Ryoko Akama
"Gussuli"
From Akama's series of "prose scores" called Code Of
Silence, based on specific words in the Japanese language that
are like English onomatapeaic sound words but "explain phenomena
that don't have sounds."
Ryoko Akama, Mark Bokowiec, Ian Cabarello and Gregg
Scott
"WireExpHud"
An interpretation of Alvin Lucier's 1977 Music On A Long Thin
Wire. Performed and recorded at Huddersfield University,
2013.
Ryoko Akama and Dominic Thibault
"FIR3"
From a forthcoming album featuring compositions performed solely on
an EMS VCS 3 modular synthesizer.