Originally recorded in 1984, “Jumping and Standing” consists of a live performance at Musashino Art University by pioneering Japanese sound artist Akio Suzuki, accompanied by five toy rabbits. This long-awaited release epitomizes Suzuki’s approach to performance, imbued with a characteristic sense of humor and an organic interplay with his audiences, as evinced by uproarious laughter heard on the opening track. Now some three decades later, contemporary listeners are likewise drawn ever deeper into this novel noisescape featuring an ensemble of wind-up bunnies on broken boards, metallic fragments, and a reel-to-reel tape deck on the fritz.
日本を代表するサウンドアーティスト鈴木昭男 氏が武蔵野美術大学にて1984年に披露した5匹のトイうさぎ達による演目"Jumping and Standing"。鈴木氏本人がいつか陽の目を見ないものかと念願を温め続けていた録音であり、その内容は息を殺し聴取に集中するというものでなく、氏が常に現場で考えてきた笑いや自然なコミュニケーションのある状況/空間をそのまま記録したもの。序盤はその立ち振る舞いにゲラゲラと笑うオーディエンスの声が聞こえ、徐々に手持ちの楽器を外されたトイうさぎ達が叩き奏でる、板切れ、金属片、壊れたオープンリールデッキの調子外れなノイズに引き込まれていく。
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released January 15, 2019
“Jumping and Standing” 1984"
Akio Suzuki
November 30, 1984 1-103 Hall, Musashino Art University
Recorded by Akio Suzuki
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Amazing collection of early works by a sound artist of some genius, and much more busy and fearsome than his later, zen-like recordings. If you're looking for secret connections between the ideas of sound art and the power of noise this is a good place to look. Derek Walmsley
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St Celfer returns with tracks culled from a series of live shows, each one a showcase for his inventive experimentalism. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 26, 2023
On this uncompromising LP, the UK outfit NOISE use haunting drone, hissing static and stark electronics to explore repressed trauma. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 1, 2022
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An excellent collaboration yielding melancholic and unsettling looping noise with ethereal vocals, tinged with a bit of 80s horror synth. Highly recommend! cedarshims