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residue

by Nobuki Nishiyama

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edition zeroso is pleased to announce the first full length release from Japanese producer/live sound engineer Nobuki Nishiyama.
"residue" is the product of erroneous usages and settings of acoustic devices. Phasal disarray, feedback, interference: none of these can be accurately produced on stage through the performers' intentions, and as such, they are normally abhorred by both performers and engineers. Nishiyama works as a live engineer but he has come to feel an irresistible attraction towards the unpredictable movements of sound produced by these abhorrent elements.
This work is made up those types of phenomena, deliberately produced on acoustic devices or within computers. It is created using extremely simple and basic signal routing: the audio and parameter signals are passed through several oscillators, filters and effects units. The reciprocal feedback and low frequency oscillations between the devices creates interference, bringing microtonal instabilities and rich (and simultaneously warped and unpleasant) fluctuations and vibrations to the simple sound of the oscillators.
As a sonic phenomenon, these fluctuations and vibrations are of course nothing new, and innumerable musicians have deployed them over the years. However, they are also elements that have long been excluded. "residue" is a record of those things which are more usually seen as appropriate for disposal.


edition zeroso第三弾、Nobuki Nishiyamaによる初のフルレングス作品をお届けします。
『residue』は、音響機器における誤用や誤設定の産物です。位相の乱れ、フィードバック、干渉、これらはステージ上での演奏の意図を正確に反映し得ないとして、演奏者/エンジニア双方から忌み嫌われるものですが、しかしライヴ・サウンド・エンジニアでもある西山は、その忌むべき要素が生み出す、予期できない音の動きに抗いがたい魅力も感じてきました。本作は、意図的にそれらの現象を、実際の音響機器、およびコンピュータ内部で引き起こしたものです。
作品は極めてシンプルで基本的な信号のルーティングで成り立っており、いくつかのオシレーターとフィルター、エフェクトだけがオーディオ信号とパラメータの信号に並べられています。ただしそれらには相互にフィードバックとLFOによる干渉が生じており、単純なオシレーターの信号音に微音階的で不安定ながらも豊かな──同時にいびつで不快でもある──ゆらぎや振動を生み出しています。
音の「現象」としてのこの「ゆらぎ・振動」は、決して新しいものではなく、古くから無数の音楽家によって実践されてきました。一方で、排除されてきたものでもあります。『residue』は、多くの場合において「切り捨てられるべきもの」として拒絶されがちな事柄について、迂遠ながらも今いちど記録したものです。

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released November 1, 2020

Written, Produced and Mastered by Nobuki Nishiyama
Recorded at Soup, Ochiai, Tokyo 2019-2020
Designed by Miho Ino

P&C 2020 edition zeroso
www.zeroso.jp
ZRS-002

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Nobuki Nishiyama Tokyo, Japan

Kyoto-born, and currently Tokyo-based electronic music producer.
He places his own work at a deliberate distance from composed musical forms, instead choosing the explore the accrual of naturally occurring acoustic phenomena such as feedback, phase-correlation, and LFO fluctuation, etc. Co-founder of the independent label/event series edition zeroso (0奏). ... more

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