Wire mix: FUJI||||||||||TA
April 2024
FUJI||||||||||TA in The Wire 483. Photo: Dani Pujalte
The Japanese sound artist gathers tracks by composers working with low end frequencies
In his recent interview in The Wire 483, sound artist Yosuke Fujita tells Antonio Poscic how the principles of ancient Japanese classical music have influenced his approach to sound design and composition: “According to the philosophy of gagaku there is no distinction between visuals and sound,” he explains. “The placement of the instruments, colours, their presence, the overall appearance and smell of the stage, all exist in a state of being mixed together. And the sound comes from there. The sound contains everything, so you can’t distinguish it from the other components.”
For this exclusive Wire set, Fujita picked some his favourite tracks that sit in the low frequency range of the sound spectrum: “Each track has a frequency that generates physical pleasure for the listener,” he commented over email. “Like the vibration of an earthquake directly jointed to the cone of a huge speaker, or the amplified sound of a contact microphone buried under the soil right next to a giant bulldozer stirring up the earth... I imagined.”
Tracklist
Tracklist
Tzusing “Residual Stress” (PAN)
Aïsha Devi “Throat Dub” (Danse Noire)
Mind Maintenance “Valence” (Drag City)
CoH “Al-Quamar” (Hallow Ground)
Goem “Nuit” (12K)
Puce Mary “Coming Down” (Hypersomnia)
Lawrence English “A Torso” (Hallow Ground)
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe “Cognition” (DDS)
Valentina Magaletti “Different Rooms” (Longform Editions)
Chris Watson “Glastonbury Ocean Soundscape” (Touch)
Martina Berther/Philipp Schlotter “Frachter” (Hallow Ground)
Rashad Becker “Dances VI” (PAN)
Arca “Mother” (PAN)
Speaker Music “Ex-American Blues” (Planet Mu)
Vince Clarke “Scarper” (Mute)
Innode “Splitter” (Editions Mego)
Jules Reidy “Adulare” (Black Truffle)
Caterina Barbieri “Pinnacles Of You” (Editions Mego)
Read Antonio Poscic's interview with FUJI||||||||||TA in full in The Wire 483. Subscribers can also find the interview online via the digital library of back issues.
Read Antonio Poscic's interview with FUJI||||||||||TA in full in The Wire 483. Subscribers can also find the interview online via the digital library of back issues.
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