"Japanese sound/performance
artist kuwayama kiyoharu continues his play
in abandoned and forgotten industrial sites to source
out mysterious
sound events as Lethe on this specially produced limited,
"run off"
release for Locust Music. The two pieces that comprise
Catastrophe
Point no.3 ( stealing it for the nonscientific expansion
& now made
transistorized and ubiquitous) were recorded between
August 29 and
September 1, 2002 in Nagoya's now closed Warehouse no.20,
Garden Pier.
Produced using everyday objects as instruments (primarily
an old 78 rpm
record scraped around the contours of the warehouse's
body, can be
thought of as a private ritual within the ruins - free
of an audience -
produced for noone, an act of waste, pulled from circulation
within a
social fabric, a playful act done primarily for one's
own pleasure.
Catastrophe Point can be seen in another light as a
reclamation of
seemingly dead space - an awakening act of utter positivism
- in which
the endoskeleton of the warehouse is poked, scraped,
written into - and
a private sound dance is made public - if only through
this small aural
dispatch - and what could, at times, sound very much
like the
soundtrack for industrial labor itself is instead the
magical trickery
of playfully wasted time. A potlatch.
Each 3" cd-r is numbered and packaged in an aged
3 3/4" film canisters
with a memento of the event - a piece of the 78 record
-, a date stamp
and brief informational notes" |
