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Merge
CD | CAT # TOUCH T33.19 | 2003 | 54:30
Track listing [11]:
1 merge
2 lightdark
3 cityscape
4 no beginning nor end
5 gate
6 usual path
7 yume(dream)
8 old moon in the arm of the new moon
9 ambiguity
10 equinoctial week
11 merged into a circle
Ken Ikeda writes: "I started to keep a sort of "Sound Diary" in 1990. And it has become a bulky record (over 140 tapes!) of improvisational, fragmental pieces of sound reflecting my everyday life over these years. The present album resulted from this "Diary." I avoided an ordinary way of making music, that is, editing and transforming sound sources into a fictional composition independent of any particular time and place. For me, the process was more important than the result. Each note evolves following its own time and there is no hierarchy between them. Everyday life is affluent in sounds which escape from being represented by symbols. Behind a piece of sound exist numerous incidents. I did not try to throw light on them. I just wanted to present them as they were with their shades and shadows."
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work has as its purpose taking samples from old movies and, by erecting
a memorial for the blanks between frames, communicating with the
god of images and attracting that holy being. I will be happy if,
by saying a mass for our ancestors, I can reconstruct the time of
darkness and the energy of the universe and so reach the far ends
of the space between frames. Honouring the place our outer eyes
cannot see is most necessary for our present-day materialistic society
and for our virtual value standards."
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