‘Allegories of Listening’ at listude on 20 May 2023

We are excited to announce the release of a new recording from immeasurable, capturing Tadashi Yonago's live performance at the "Allegories of Listening" event held at listude in Nara on May 20, 2023. This recording will be available as both a CD and a high-resolution digital download.

About "Allegory of Listening" [Japanese language only]

www.listude.jp/journal/?p=14982

The "Allegories of Listening" event was organized by immeasurable, the art association focused on exploring medium-specific issues in music and sound. In the first part of the event, Eisuke Yanagisawa, who released "wetland" on immeasurable, Masami Baba, an engineer who worked on Eiki Mori's sound documentary as part of the sound team salad, and Manpei Tsurubayashi of listude, who designs unique polyhedral speakers, discussed their perspectives on "listening."

In the second part of the event, in collaboration with the mobile coffee shop Kinme[ = tea stall Kimme], the audience was invited to relax and listen to the speakers' favorite recordings using the listude speakers.

In the third part, the artist Tadashi Yonago performed a live recording. Yonago has previously created works focusing on sounds produced by non-musical equipments and performances that translate rare phenomena in everyday spaces into sound.

listude's showroom, though small, is designed to provide a high-quality acoustic environment. Through careful attention to the power supply and the unique acoustics of the space, as well as a meticulous attention to detail, listude has created a listening environment that is considered to be one of the best of its size. In this exceptional space, Yonago performed using non-musical equipments and a trombone, taking full advantage of the room's acoustics.

Eisuke Yanagisawa and Masami Baba recorded and mastered the performance. Yanagisawa recorded and mastered tracks 1-3, while Baba recorded and mastered tracks 4-6.

By comparing these tracks, we hope to encourage listeners to explore their own interpretations of the subject and object of recording art, as well as the differences between mediums.