mAtter

We will release a new work on November 01, 2011.

artist :: Ákos Garai
title :: Three Shaded Leaves (for Bernhard Günter)

01. Leaf 1
02. Leaf 2
03. Leaf 3

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additional　Special bonus PDF book :: The PDF is automatically added to the only people who bought the album.



LABEL :: mAtter
CAT NO. :: MATTER010
PRICE :: 7,50 JPYEN

FORMAT :: data ( download only )
RELEASE DATE :: 2011.11.01

Mastering :  Yukitomo Hamasaki
Photo : Ákos Garai
Sleeve design : Yukitomo Hamasaki

PDF Book

Photos : Ákos Garai
Design : Yukitomo Hamasaki

mAtter DOWNLOAD STORE



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Liner Notes ::

Dedication is always presuming a special relationship between the "sender” and the "addressed”
persons. Often, it is a kind of "master and slave” connection which can be defined with such words
as honor, respect, and responsibility.

My first encounter with Bernhard Günter’s music was back in 1997. Two of his excellent pieces,
namely "Details Agrandis” and later "Impossible Grey” have changed my entire idea of what I call
music and musicality. Thanks to these radical masterpieces of monochrome heaven, my listening
activity has turned into a new state of mind where sounds do not distract the listener’s attention
from music; rather, every sound event, and movement carries the same importance and evidence
in the composition.

In his own album titles, Bernhard Günter has often dedicated his work to others (for Morton
Feldman, Mark Rothko, Jim O’Rourke) as a kind gesture. Thus, I decided to dedicated "Three
Shaded Leaves” to Bernhard himself as a kind of expression of my highest appreciation to this
great artist and musician.

18th August 2009
Ákos Garai

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Ákos Garai

started as a drummer at age of 13. After several years of playing with various bands
my music orientation has turned into new directions.

He started composing experimental music by discovering fields of electro-acoustic, abstract, minimal sound art in 2001.

Since 2004 in my main focus are moving micro structures of recorded, edited or processed sound material.

In 2009, I have established 3LEAVES, a record label devoted to release field recordings from all over the world and to present them based on individual concepts for listeners.

artist ::Yu Miyashita
title :: Navy See Res in Brighton

01. In
02. Ash Lug Sun
03. Navy See Res
04. End or First
05. Schlock Ops
06. Sepia Walks Me 1
07. Endwise
08. Sage Asks Pulse
09. Remove Faith
10. Sepia Walks Me 2
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11. Out
[ additional　Special bonus track :: This track is automatically added to the only people who bought the album.    ]

ARTIST :: Yu Miyashita
TITLE :: Navy See Res in Brighton
LABEL :: mAtter
CAT NO. :: MATTER009
PRICE :: 1,100 JPYEN

FORMAT :: data ( download only )
RELEASE DATE :: 2011.07.07

mastering :  Yu Miyashita
Photo : Yu Miyashita
sleeve design : Yukitomo Hamasak

http://matterlabel.bandcamp.com/navy-see-res-in-brighton




Press Release - July 2011

Japanese musician and composer Yu Miyashita has created a new album especially
for the Tokyo label mAtter.

Each track is named instinctively  and then playfully reworked as a random anagram. 
All relate to the seven years Miyashita spent in Brighton.
The title to the album and lead track, Navy See Res, is a sound reminder of the starlings
which can be found circling the Brighton shoreline in droves.

Miyashita’s methodology incorporates the use of software cyan/n. 
When extending the short samples to create drone sounds he uses Renoise.
Returning to his collection of thousands of one second sound samples,
which he built up during the seven years, Miyashita has selected from them in order
to create his expansive collages of sound and huge soundscapes which are
intense powerful and, at times, mind blowing.

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Yu Miyashita
Born 1984 Yamanashi Japan. Lives Japan / Brighton United Kingdom.
Much of Yu’s compositions are based on the Glitch and Onkyo branches
of Noise which grew up in the late 1990′s.

Glitch is constructed from digital debris,
errors and the processing (often the misuse, reissue or abuse)
of normally extraneous sounds, instruments and machinery.
Glitch musicians will record bugs, crashes, system errors, hardware noise,
skipping and audio distortion on their computers.
Onkyo is based on free improvisation and also appeared during the late 1990′s.

This type of music is more textural than structural, cutting together elements of
electronic music and even silence.
Yu Miyashita gathers bits of noise intuitively and assembles them into his Onkyo /  Glitch / Noise hybrids.


Yu Miyashita website >> here

Release . June 18, 2011 - MATTER008

artist :: Pe Lang
title :: interweave

1. ?|oop I
2. spectral.1
3. copyhabit III(long_)
4. spect3.V3.0

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ARTIST :: Pe Lang
TITLE :: interweave
LABEL :: mAtter
CAT NO. :: MATTER008
PRICE :: 750 JPYEN

FORMAT :: data ( download only )
RELEASE DATE :: 2011.06.18

mastering :  Pe lang
sleeve design : Pe Lang

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Pe Lang

FORMAT :: DATA / digital download

DOWNLOAD STORE is


http://matterlabel.bandcamp.com/album/interweave

RELEASE DATE :: 2011. 06.18

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Pe Lang

Pe Lang, born in 1974 in Switzerland, lives and works in Zurich and Berlin.
He has exhibited and performed in several important museums,
galleries and festivals, including Transmediale,
Berlin; AV Festival, Newcastle; Elektra,
Montreal; Sonic Acts XII, Amsterdam; Great North Museum,
Newcastle; Växjö Kunsthalle,
Sweden; Dissonanze, Rome; bitforms gallery,
New York; ISEA 2008, Singapore; Netherlands Media Art Institute,
Amsterdam; and Cybersonica, London.

Selected awards and residencies include the Swiss Art Award (2009 & 2010)
Sitemapping/Mediaprojects Award-Bundesamt fur Kultur (2005 & 2008),
artists-in-labs Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (2007) .

www.pelang.ch

Release . Jun 18, 2011 - MATTER007

artist :: Pe Lang
title :: nacht

1. nacht 1
2. nacht 1.1
3. nacht 2
4. nacht 3
5. nacht 5.3_silence
6. optionen9.2

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ARTIST :: Pe Lang
TITLE :: nacht
LABEL :: mAtter
CAT NO. :: MATTER007
PRICE :: 1,100 JPYEN

FORMAT :: DATA / digital download

DOWNLOAD STORE is

http://matterlabel.bandcamp.com/album/nacht


RELEASE DATE :: 2011. 06.18

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Pe Lang

Pe Lang, born in 1974 in Switzerland, lives and works in Zurich and Berlin.
He has exhibited and performed in several important museums,
galleries and festivals, including Transmediale,
Berlin; AV Festival, Newcastle; Elektra,
Montreal; Sonic Acts XII, Amsterdam; Great North Museum,
Newcastle; Växjö Kunsthalle,
Sweden; Dissonanze, Rome; bitforms gallery,
New York; ISEA 2008, Singapore; Netherlands Media Art Institute,
Amsterdam; and Cybersonica, London.

Selected awards and residencies include the Swiss Art Award (2009 & 2010)
Sitemapping/Mediaprojects Award-Bundesamt fur Kultur (2005 & 2008),
artists-in-labs Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (2007) .

www.pelang.ch

mAtter music DOWNLOAD STORE start.

http://matterlabel.bandcamp.com

and We will be new release at this weekend.
 
Pe Lang :: natch - MATTER007
Pe Lang :: interwave - MATTER008

Pe Lang information >> http://www.pelang.ch/

Release . Dec 25,2010 - MATTER006

artist :: GO KOYASHIKI
title :: TOUCH
 
1.One Plus One
2. Mil
3. Double
4. Spot
5.No.9
6. Dom
7.Talk To Me
8. Frame
9. Silhouette

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ARTIST :: Go Koyashiki
TITLE :: TOUCH
LABEL :: mAtter
CAT NO. :: MATTER006
PRICE :: 2,100yen(2,000yen without tax)

FORMAT :: CDR
EDITION :: 300 copies
RELEASE DATE :: 2010.12.25

These commodities are the prints by handmade -  one by one

mastering : uhitokiyosue
sleeve design : mAtter
cover design + print by mAtter


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小屋敷 剛

音楽家／映画音楽家。青森県三沢市出身。
バークリーメソッド、音楽史を学び、弦楽や室内楽の作曲も手がける。ギタリストとして多くのバンド活動を経験後、
音楽製作をコンピュータにシフトすると同時に、エレクトロニカ、アンビエント、実験音楽、サウンドアートといった
ジャンルに傾倒していく。
プログラミング言語を駆使した、サインウェーブによる音響合成処理による音素材と、フィールド・レコーディングの
音素材を加工／編集したものを主に作曲に使用している。
舞台や映画の音楽制作にも携わっており、数多くの舞台／映画作品に楽曲を提供する。


Go Koyashiki

Musician/Film Composer.
With the background of having learned Berklee method and music history, Koyoshiki composes
strings ensemble and chamber music.
After having played in a few bands with various genres as a guitarist, Koyashiki started to shift his

http://www.gokoyashiki.jp/

Release . Dec 25,2010 - MATTER005

artist :: pleq
title :: Absorbed By Resonance
 
1. Gap In Time
2. The Glow Of Minerals 
3. Absorbed By Resonance
4. Last Month's 
5.Getting Through
6. White Moth In The White Coat 
7.Critique Of Pure Reasone

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CAT NO. :: MATTER005
PRICE :: 2,100yen(2,000yen without tax)

FORMAT :: CDR
EDITION :: 300 copies
RELEASE DATE :: 2010.12.25

All tracks written and produced
by Bartosz Dziadosz at the turn of 2009 and 2010.

These commodities are the prints by handmade -  one by one

cover design by mAtter


LINK ::

pleq

www.myspace.com/pleq

Release . Dec 16,2010 - MATTER006

artist :: GO KOYASHIKI
title :: TOUCH
 
DISC 1 :: TOUCH

1.One Plus One
2. Mil
3. Double
4. Spot
5.No.9
6. Dom
7.Talk To Me
8. Frame
9. Silhouette

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DISC 2 :: And Life Goes On

1.And Life Goes On


このCDRはSPECIAL LIMITED EDITION版の特典のみで、
通常版に追加されません。

This CDR for SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION.
It is not attached to the Regular release version.


ARTIST :: Go Koyashiki
TITLE :: TOUCH
LABEL :: mAtter
CAT NO. :: MATTER006 SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION
PRICE :: 2,625 yen(2,500 yen without tax)  SOLD OUT

FORMAT :: CDR + CDR
EDITION :: 25 copies
RELEASE DATE :: 2010.12.16

These commodities are the prints by handmade -  one by one

mastering : uhitokiyosue
sleeve design : mAtter
cover design + print by mAtter


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総ての表現は二次的なものであり、そこには乗り越えがたい困難があります。
私にとって芸術とは、それを乗り越えようとする試みに他なりません。

どんなに革新的な音を鳴らしても、どんなに先鋭的な音を鳴らしても、
それが心に届かないのであれば、意味がない。
音楽の本質とは学問や論理にはなく、やはり音楽の中にしかない。
私は音楽家としての本懐を、ただ貫こうとしているに過ぎません。

もっとも純粋な対話とは、作品を通してのみ可能な気がしています。
私は貴方との交感を、心から希求しているのです。

小屋敷　剛


every expression is substitution and there are insurmountable difficulties.
art, to me, is nothing but an attempt to overcome the difficulties.

even when the music sounds revolutionary or radically new,
if it fails to reach the hearts of its listeners, it means nothing.
one cannot find the essentials of music in academia or logic, but in music itself.
my attempt, therefore, is merely what i consider a basic musicianship.

the most pure form of communication, i think, is possible only though art work.
so i sincerely hope that my attempt connects to your heart.

Go Koyashiki


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小屋敷 剛

音楽家／映画音楽家。青森県三沢市出身。
バークリーメソッド、音楽史を学び、弦楽や室内楽の作曲も手がける。ギタリストとして多くのバンド活動を経験後、
音楽製作をコンピュータにシフトすると同時に、エレクトロニカ、アンビエント、実験音楽、サウンドアートといった
ジャンルに傾倒していく。
プログラミング言語を駆使した、サインウェーブによる音響合成処理による音素材と、フィールド・レコーディングの
音素材を加工／編集したものを主に作曲に使用している。
舞台や映画の音楽制作にも携わっており、数多くの舞台／映画作品に楽曲を提供する。


Go Koyashiki

Musician/Film Composer.
With the background of having learned Berklee method and music history, Koyoshiki composes
strings ensemble and chamber music.
After having played in a few bands with various genres as a guitarist, Koyashiki started to shift his

http://www.gokoyashiki.jp/

Release . Dec 16,2009 - MATTER004

artist :: Shinkei + mise_en_scene
title :: scytale

1.Cryptology
2.Cuts
3.Remodelled I
4.Remodelled II
5.Cryptology [agrandissement] _remixed by Luigi Turra
6. Dreaming Assent_remixed by Michael Hartman
7.Abstr.B.,No2_remixed by Yukitomo Hamasaki(mAtter)

Mastering : Taylor Deupree (12K) at 12K MASTERING

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ARTIST :: Shinkei + mise_en_scene
TITLE :: scytale
LABEL :: mAtter
CAT NO. :: MATTER004
PRICE :: 2,100 yen(2,000 yen without tax)
FORMAT :: CD
RELEASE DATE :: 2009.12.16

-link

shinkei : www.koyuki-sound.org
mise_en_scene : www.myspace.com/miseenscene11
Luigi Turra : www.navenight.com
Michael Hartman : www.kuronekomusic.com
Yukitomo Hamasaki : www.matter.jp
Taylor Deupree (12K) : www.12kmastering.com

ARTIST :: Andy Graydon
TITLE :: Geomancy
LABEL :: mAtter
CAT NO. :: MATTER003
PRICE :: 2,625 yen(2,500 yen without tax)
FORMAT :: CD + DVD
BARCODE :: 4941135990155
RELEASE DATE :: 2009.06.17

Geomancy

CD : Untitled (geomancy)

01. untitled_12'12
02. untitled_02'11
03. untitled_04'38
04. untitled_03'32
05. untitled_04'40
06. untitled_03'09
07. untitled_21'47

DVD

01.Farwanderer [2009] _08'43
02.Surroundings (the ship,the shoal,the shore) [2005] _06'47　play movie
03.Focal Plane (ten frames aligh on the) [2006] _23'29
04.Untitled (aina) [2008] _ 26'22


picture + sound : Andy Graydon
mix : Andy Graydon
mastering : Naph at NATURE BLISS STUDIO
photography : Andy Graydon
sleeve design : mAtter

Geomancy is a new dvd+cd collection of works about place and displacement, location and identity, and with the environment (or the "field" of field recordings) as a complex envelope of forces and meanings which light and sound can both trace and transform.

The CD contains a new long-form sound work, "Untitled (geomancy)". The piece was created from field recordings that were subject to a series of material and digital transformations: the original recordings were cut to a series of acetate phonograph records for an installation work in 2008, and these well-worn records, revealing a new landscape of their own in both sound and texture, became the basis for the composition.

The DVD collects four of Graydon's super 8 films on video. "Farwanderer", a story of finding identity in displacement, is the keystone work, revealing themes that are central to much of Graydon's film work. "Surroundings" evokes a restless sense of place more directly in images and music. "Focal Plane" is based on a live image and sound performance piece, and deals with the coming to life of an environment from the most fundamental elements of light, shape, motion -- and how these are always something less and something more than they seem. "Untitled (Aina)" is a visual field recording of sorts, showing environments on the islands of Hawaii where natural and human processes are set in friction or resonance, and accompanied by sound from the original acetate records used to create the "Untitled (geomancy)" sound composition


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Andy Graydon

Andy Graydon (b. 1971, Maui, Hawaii) is an artist and filmmaker based in Berlin.
His work focuses on the interaction of sound, image, and environment. In his recent work Andy is interested in creating what he calls "Science Fiction Ecologies" by engaging with the speculative and transformational qualities within an environment. Taking the form of videos, sound works, media objects and installations this work explores the boundary zones between performance and exhibition, presence and deferral, liveness and mediation.

Graydon has presented work nationally and internationally in programs such as Ausland, Berlin, the Worldwide Video Festival, Amsterdam, and the Portland Art Center, Oregon. Recent exhibitions and performances in New York City include work at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, LMAKprojects gallery, Diapason, Art In General, Participant Inc gallery, Galeria Galou, The Dumbo Arts Festival, Millennium Film Workshop, White Box gallery, and Tonic. In 2005/2006 he was the visiting artist at the Center for Computer Music, Brooklyn College, CUNY.

Recent sound releases are available on Non Visual Objects (Vienna), Winds Measure Recordings (Brooklyn), 12k/Term (New York), EKO (Paris), On;(do) Music (Miami), The NY Society for Acoustic Ecology, and forthcoming from White_Line Editions (UK). Collaborations include performances and recordings with John Hudak, Kato Hideki, Kenneth Kirschner, sawako, Amnon Wolman, David Grubbs, Ben Owen, Zach Layton, Andre Golcalves, Brendan Murray, mpld, and Richard Garet. He is the co-founder and curator of three media and performance series in New York City: Becoming, Sonogrammar, and the upcoming LMAKseries.

www.andygraydon.net 

ARTIST :: Go Koyashiki
TITLE :: slit
LABEL :: mAtter
CAT NO. :: MATTER002
PRICE :: 2,100 yen(2,000 yen without tax)
TYPE OF FORMAT :: CD
BARCODE :: 4526180017950
RELEASE DATE :: 2008.12.10

slit

01. untitled_02'23
02. untitled_05'33
03. untitled_05'37
04. untitled_06'57
05. untitled_04'52
06. untitled_01'29
07. untitled_04'18
08. untitled_02'24
09. untitled_03'29
10. untitled_05'30

mix : Go Koyashiki+uhitokiyosue
mastering : Go Koyashiki+Isao Kumano at Phonon studio
photography : Yukitomo Hamasaki
sleeve design : mAtter

小屋敷 剛

音楽家／映画音楽家。青森県三沢市出身。バークリーメソッド、音楽史を学び、弦楽や室内楽の作曲も手がける。ギタリストとして多くのバンド活動を経験後、音楽製作をコンピュータにシフトすると同時に、エレクトロニカ、アンビエント、実験音楽、サウンドアートといったジャンルに傾倒していく。プログラミング言語を駆使した、サインウェーブによる音響合成処理による音素材と、フィールド・レコーディングの音素材を加工／編集したものを主に作曲に使用している。舞台や映画の音楽制作にも携わっており、数多くの舞台／映画作品に楽曲を提供する。

http://www.gokoyashiki.jp/

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Go Koyashiki

Musician/Film Composer. With the background of having learned Berklee method and music history, Koyoshiki composes strings ensemble and chamber music.
After having played in a few bands with various genres as a guitarist, Koyashiki started to shift his

http://www.gokoyashiki.jp/

ARTIST :: Yukitomo Hamasaki
TITLE :: d+p
LABEL :: mAtter
CATLOG NO. :: MATTER001
PRICE :: 2,100 yen（2,000 yen without tax)
TYPE OF FORMAT :: CD
BARCODE NO. :: 4526180015857
REREASE DATE :: 2008.08.16

d+p
01.untitled_01'01
02.untitled_10'36
03.untitled_08'24
04.untitled_10'55
05.untitled_05'06
06.untitled_05'40
07.untitled_10'04

mix : Yukitomo Hamasaki + uhitokiyosue
mastering : Yukitomo Hamasaki + Isao Kumano at Phonon studio
photography : Yukitomo Hamasaki
sleeve design : mAtter

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濱崎幸友の音楽には、私が評価できる要素や特徴が多く含まれています。周りの音と共存できる「主張しない」音楽です。つまり、透明感のある、窓のようなものです。
窓を通して、もしくは顕微鏡を通して風景を観る／聴くようなものです。音の風景のある要素が延ばされており、焦点がどんどん移っていくようなイメージです。遠くから、近くから聴こえる鐘、電車、虫、鳥や人間の声、飛行機などは、風によってフィルターされているように感じられます。また同時に、今現在聴こえている風景がデフォルメされ、その風景の基本構造が明らかにされているように聴こえます。それはエリック・サティの「ソクラテス」に対してのジョン・ケージの「チープ・イミテーション」のようなもので、欠くことの出来ない重要な部分のみによって構成されているように思えます。デリケートな音作り、広がって行く音色、環境音との絶妙なぶつけ合いによって、
聴く度に新しい体験のできる作品です。

クリストフ・シャルル
（サウンド・アーティスト/武蔵野美術大学映像学科准教授/環境芸術学会理事)
http://home.att.ne.jp/grape/charles/

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濱崎幸友の音楽は、小さすぎず、大きすぎず、少なすぎず、多すぎず、速すぎず、遅すぎず、強すぎず、弱すぎず、あたかもそれが最初から、そこにそのままあったかのように聴こえる。
光あるところ必ず影があるように、不可視で不可避な何ものかを常に携えながら、それらすべてをひっくるめなければ現れない、ちりちりとした境界をつくりだす。それは音のコンポジションでもなく、耳のコンポジションでもなく、しかしコンポジションとしか呼び得ない、奇妙なシンメトリーを保っている。
そんなしなやかな中庸の強度は、何かを極めようとする、保守的な心からは生まれない。抽象的でありつづけることは、自由であることのように難しい。

久保田晃弘
（サウンド・アーティスト / 多摩美術大学教授）
http://homepage2.nifty.com/~bota/
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Comments by Christophe Charles

The music created by YUKITOMO HAMASAKI includes a lot of worthy elements and features. His music is possible to put into context within the sounds that surround us,in a sense, it could be called selfless music, It's like a clear window. It's as if we're looking at  or listening to a landscape through a window or a microscope. The elements of the sound landscape are expanded to an extent in which the focus is constantly shifting.I feel as if these sounds, such as both a distant and closer bell sound, the sound of a train, insects, birds , a human being's voice, and an aircraft, are filtered with winds. At the same time, the basic structure of it's soundscape gives me an explicit sense of a landscape which has been deformes.
I appear to be that it's composed of only the integral important parts and  it's like " Cheap Imitation" by John Cage against ”Socrates" by Eric Satie.

The more you listen to it, the more you have new experiences, due to the fine clashes of his delicately crafted sounds, the diffusible tones and sound environments.

-Christophe Charles (sound artist/assistant professor of Dept. of imaging Arts in Musashino Art University)
http://home.att.ne.jp/grape/charles/

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Comments by Akihiro Kubota

The music brought forth from YUKITOMO HAMASAKI is not too small, not too big, not too little, not too much, not too fast, not too slow, not too strong, not too weak.As if it sounded that way from scratch.As if where light is, there is also shadow,　his music always has an invisible and unavoidable " something ",   and brings forth a flickering border that could not  appear without all of these elements.It's not a sound composition nor an ear composition, but if there is only one way to call it, then it's "composition" held up by some bizarre symmetry. Such an intensity of balance and suppleness couldn't have been created from a conservative spirit that is simply trying to master something.Keep being abstract, as well as keep being free, despite the difficulty.

Akihiro Kubota (Sound Artist/ Professor of Tama Art University)
http://homepage2.nifty.com/~bota/