Label: Room40

2005年より自主レーベルCritical Pathより音源リリースを開始、and/OARやMystery Sea、Drone Recordsに音源を残した国内のサウンドアーティストYui Onodera氏。オーストラリアの人気レーベルRoom40より発表した2024年[1982]を入荷。生まれ故郷の岩手に数日滞在、限られた素材と古いメディアを使用して制作された作品であり、全曲古いテープレコーダーに直接録音。音響の"劣化と再構築"をコンセプトに、ギター&シンセを歪んだアンビエント・テクスチャとして浮遊させた10パート。美しいエンボス加工スリーブ、インサート付き。





Matte laminate, monochrome printed and embossed sleeve with insert card.

A note from Yui

I stayed in Iwate, where I was born, for a few days and created some sound materials using limited materials and old media. Over ten years ago, Iwate was devastated by the Great East Japan earthquake. Many old things that remained in my memory became rubble, dismantled, and new scenery was there. I bounced every song from “1982” straight onto an old tape recorder.

This album that comes out of my interest in sonic "degradation and
rebuilding". I treated the guitar and synthesiser in a lot of new ways, so using a lot of tape recorders and/or pedal effects. I wanted the guitar to be an extension of the ambient textures rather than technology and imperfection.

The raw and the processed.

We benefited greatly from the evolution and democratization of computer and audio technology in the early '00s. I was fascinated by sounds that could not be created by humans, such as real-time audio synthesis and granular synthesis. Now, 20-odd years later, I am fascinated by sounds that cannot be created with a computer. It was a unique acoustic texture created by deterioration and wear, including accidental wear, due to old technology that is disappearing. It's like a memory of my old days in Iwate.