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code of silence

by Ryoko Akama

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jiwa jiwa 12:51
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gussuri 09:48
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sotto 13:54
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jili jili 08:20
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zowa zowa 13:37
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Code of silence is Ryoko Akama’s new album after her last release, kise-tsu, in 2005. The album contains five tracks that explore Japanese phenomime and psycomime. Phenomime is Japanese words/phrases that mimic certain physical forms/motions whilst psycomime depict psychological states, emotions or feelings. They are the sounding word for no sounding phenomenon. Akama has created numerous pieces conceptualised by phenomime and psycomime. some are purely electronics and others are for other performers. This is an album which collects solo electronic pieces. gussuri (track02) is a phenomine that defines a state of ‘sound asleep’. The 10 minutes piece conditions transformative experience in listening and not listening. Layers of sound wonder in and out of space. Silent parts are more predominant than sound performed that makes occurrence of sound more apparent. Performance and listening action of no-input mixer is used solely to realise this evolving piece. Sotto (track 03) is a sound word for ‘gradually’ or ‘quietly’ and used when someone or something is discreet. It is contemplative, accumulative and expands listener’s perception over time in a predictable manner. A listener succumbs to different levels of details in a quality of surface of tonal texture. A series of small intents cause intense listening environments. This intensified situation is a resultant of continuum simplicity where hidden density and timbre are unveiled.

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At the opposite end of the dynamic spectrum, but every bit as powerful as Abandon is Ryoko Akama's new disc "Code of Silence." One track, called "sotto" consists entirely of low frequency noise and is so "awesome" (in the original sense of that word), I had to play it twice right away (and then twice again today). It is followed by "jili jili" : high frequency sounds and beating - and the disc ends with a kind of combination of the two ("zawa zawa"). Really wonderful - I imagine people who like Wandelweiser, Gravity Wave, erstwhile, etc. will be very interested. (by michael pisaro)

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released March 1, 2014

recorded at university of huddersfield and IMA institute

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