I_Am_Robot_and_Proud

今回、お話をいただいてまず思ったのは、日常で使いやすく便利なものを作ってみたいということでした。芸術作品というよりは、道具や装置のようなものを目指して制作しました。

実際の制作にあたり、実現したかったのはコンピューターからイレギュラーに生成されていく新鮮さと、それぞれの音が心地よくシームレスに繋がっていくことを両立させることでした。

シームレスは得意でしたが新鮮さがうまく出せず、あれこれ悩んで進まない中、AISOチームとの打ち合わせの中で「YACHIMATA」という、以前に僕の半分趣味でやっていた楽曲シリーズの話が出てきて。ふと思いついて、試しに数曲を分解・調整して混ぜてみると、面白そうな手応えを感じました。

複数曲のフレーズ同士を混ぜるというのは経験がありませんでしたが、むしろ新しいものを一から作るのとは違った、意図しては生まれない新鮮さが感じられて、僕一人ではなくコンピューターと一緒に生み出せているような手応えがありました。

調整方法さえ固まると、完成までは一気に進みました。最終的にYACHIMATAシリーズから、2018年2月〜2021年5月までの38曲分の環境音やフレーズを取り出して、一つずつ調整して音の欠片としてAISOに埋め込みました。僕の住んでいる千葉・八街の四季折々の田んぼの音、様々な種類の生楽器や電子音などがたくさん入っています。

この「YACHIMATA」は新曲ではありませんが、既存曲とも言えないです。そもそも、これが曲なのかどうなのかもわからないです。僕にとってもはじめての、不思議な音楽になりました。

AISOと向き合う時間は、とても創造的で楽しい時間でした。このような不思議な音楽を作るチャンスを頂けた、AISOのみなさんに感謝します。

この音楽が、お使いいただくみなさんの日常に永く寄り添えるものになってくれたらうれしいです。

宮内 優里

宮内 優里 / YACHIMATA / AISO

新しき光

haruka nakamura - twilight (新しき光, 2021)

▼ Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/intl-ja/album/4be3kb7GAT9J9QnJgE4oq5?si=qb96aBHhRcqNHIs6IhvZWQ

▼ Apple Music
https://music.apple.com/jp/album/beta-2/1720863525

▼ Bandcamp
https://miyauchiyuri.bandcamp.com/album/beta-2

I have released my 8th album "Beta 2". Following the release of "Beta" two years ago, this album was created mainly by sampling and reconstructing his own performances and songs. As with last time, the artwork was created by my friend, sculptor Yusuke Tsuchiya. He is creating sculptures and taking photos for this work.

Beta 2

Listen

kipa

2015 Released by cold fiction music.
http://cfmlabel.com/releases/cfm067/

Sunny Boy

goldenbird

original is included in my 1st album "Mirror Flake".

Mirror Flake -reworked

ketok magic (demo)

Robot Band Rehearsal - New Song (Circles)

"ethereal froth scudding across the sky
the sunset cleanses today, leaving it glowing
shining water, silent waves"

aspidistrafly is a Singapore-based unit comprising of April Lee (vocal, programming) and Ricks Ang (guitar, programming). Since 2006, their participations in media art installations &amp; performances have gained attention for their sound and visual works. aspidistrafly have been regarded as one of the new wave of artists to emerge from Asia other than from Japan.

"i hold a wish for you" is their anticipated first full album. Drawing references to Banana Yoshimoto's literary classic "Moonlight Shadow", aspidistrafly weaves through the solitary atmosphere of the novel with their own narratives inspired by several excursions outside the confines of their immediate surroundings.  This latest release invokes delicate moments with nine tracks that combine acoustic instrumentation across April's warm vocal harmonies, soft floating textures and binaural field recordings. "i hold a wish for you" is an invitation to travel with sound through lyrical melodies and pastoral sonic scapes.

'Refined and robust, these well organized aural assemblages give ample animation and seriousness to the light and prosaic elements of the everyday' – Cyclic Defrost (Australia)

'Lovely collection on both sonic and visual grounds. aspidistrafly's transporting music glistens like sunlight passing through a spider web on a damp summer morning. Listeners whose taste runs from Sawako to Akira Kosemura will do themselves a grave disservice if i hold a wish for you doesn't immediately become a part of their collections' – Textura (Canada)

'With an eye for details like Taylor Deupree, it's in the vain of the Japanese musician Piana. "i hold a wish for you" is an overall a nice album which with the amazing artwork becomes something not to miss out on.' (8/10) – EARLabs (Netherlands)

'it feels like a soundtrack of sorts to the wonderful literary universe of Murakami in a sense – both present and down-to-earth, unassuming and kind, yet also retaining some mysterious, delicate qualities to distinguish aspidistrafly’s music from their peers' – Soundscaping (Norway)

'Its not easy to pin down aspidistrafly’s music into a specific genre, which of course is a good thing. Can you imagine Richard Chartier playing dreamy pop music? With some female vocalist? Well, there you go. I’d say aspidistrafly is microsound and pop.' – Vital Weekly (Netherlands)

'music like this would get assigned mawkish adjectives such as “ethereal”, “dreamy” and every other word used to describe a dimension beyond this one—except that in aspidistrafly’s case, the dimension is very much Planet Earth, and its lifeblood is the fountain of human imagination that refreshes all who draw from it.' - Junk Magazine (Malaysia)




aspidistrafly - common colors in the air (i hold a wish for you, 2008)

Albany

unfinished buildings (demo)

youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeGX4540XQo

insta
@bakagamitakattasekai

mail
bakagamitakatta@yahoo.co.jp

niwa

From the album "Circulation"
http://nelsjp.bandcamp.com/album/circulation

Nels - Light Particles (i am robot and proud remix)

Sheeprint - Paper Ghost

(from the "Merry Christmas Mr. Powershovel" on PowerShovelAudio records)

Let It Snow

i am robot and proud band (shaw-han liem, mike smith, jeremy strachan, robin buckley)

recorded live at the Tranzac in Toronto on December 31, 2010.
originally from the Mechanical Forest Sound blog
http://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.com/


I Am Robot and Proud - Making a Case for Magic (live 2010-12-31)

this is the official soundcloud profile for "i am robot and proud".

Robot Band Rehearsal - New Song (Circles)

robotandproud

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