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Asuna Arashi: 100 Keyboards

— ZDB 8 Marvila

Sat06.12.2507:00PM
ZDB 8 Marvila


100 keyboards © Julieta Cervantes
Asuna Arashi © Charlotte Simon

A live music performance featuring over 100 toy keyboards.
Each keyboard plays a sustained note of a certain pitch, and as the number of keys increases, a strange moiré of sound is created. Since most of the keyboards being played are cheap products or made as toys, the pitch/tuning of each key may be slightly off fluctuate slightly in pitch when played for long time and battery powered. The slight misalignment creates a complex resonance.
This performance focuses on the phenomenon of “interference sound”, which is a complex distribution of sound pressure and other parameters when sound waves of the same frequency but with different propagation directions overlap, and on the phenomenon that the sounds like a “moiré” pattern due to the resonant generated by the subtle differences in pitch.
By changing the direction of the ears and/or while moving around the keyboards, the complex interfering sounds and resonances in space will produce different sound buzzes, loops, and beats at each minute location. It is an auditory experience like weaving a “textile pattern,” the original meaning of “moire,” with each ear.

Asuna Arashi

ASUNA is Japanese sound artist who has recently been reevaluated in the experimental music and art scene in recent years. Since teens in the late 90s, he has been producing in the experimental and improvised music scene in Tokyo. His works is simultaneously an interdisciplinary perspective in art and a hardcore/punk and a sweet, musical orientation that seems to be its opposite. His signature work was “Each Organ” (2002), a sound installation that reinterpreted the concept of things from etymology. Then also released an album of reed organ drones and idyllic electronics, “Organ Leaf” (2003), on Lucky Kitchen in Spain, and has since released on labels around the world such as Meeuw Muzak, Senufo Editions, Faitiche, 12k and etc. He also often toured with “100 Toys” avant-garde performance, which featured a large number of toys. ASUNA’s recent work “100 Keyboards” is a site-specific performance featuring over 100 toy-keyboards. This focuses on physical acoustic phenomena such as interference sound and moire resonance. This work has performed at many international art festivals and theaters such as BAM in New York.

Sat06.12.2507:00PM
ZDB 8 Marvila
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