Shinji Wakasa
An artist based in Berlin and Tokyo.
Through the material construction of sound and music, his work gives spatial and temporal form to the contours of the untouchable.
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Work
This EP, "ukoku(Rain刻)", revolves around three distinct types of rain—Suiu (rain enveloping new greenery), Byakuu (the intense summer downpour), and Hiu (the persistent, quiet drizzle).
Within sound and silence, between fluctuation and spaciousness, the presence of water emerges as an internal landscape.
Like the invisible flow in a Zen dry garden, each raindrop etches lines into space, quietly evoking personal memories and sensations in the listener.
Purification, fluctuation, memory—three kinds of rain transforming through time, captured in sound and silence.
In producing the music for this album, Wakasa set a very simple rule for himself: to create in the early morning using the clear awareness of the morning, to play what he felt at that moment without denying the first sound, and to build the music like flowing clouds, a concept expressed in Japanese Zen as "flowing clouds and water."
This approach has successfully imbued the entire album with a sense of freedom and a gradation that transitions from the pitch-black sky gradually illuminated by the sun's light, turning from blue to green to yellow.
In some way, Shinji Wakasa searches his subconscious for images that elapses and merges with each other, creating a direct dialogue through his compositions, between the human being and his environment.
Pure calm that starts from harmony of silence, which leads to seek the adventure of the encounter with privacy and beauty.
Tranquilo Trasciendo is a fragment that is deposited behind the gaze, to generate an inevitably internal change and escape to ethemeral garden of the mind; to feel these sounds recovers your true being.