Yui Onodera

1982

RM4199

August 23, 2024

CD/Digital

A note from Yui

I stayed in Iwate, where I was born, for a few days and created some sound materials using limited materials and old media. Over ten years ago, Iwate was devastated by the Great East Japan earthquake. Many old things that remained in my memory became rubble, dismantled, and new scenery was there. I bounced every song from “1982” straight onto an old tape recorder.

This album that comes out of my interest in sonic “degradation and
rebuilding”. I treated the guitar and synthesiser in a lot of new ways, so using a lot of tape recorders and/or pedal effects. I wanted the guitar to be an extension of the ambient textures rather than technology and imperfection.

The raw and the processed.

We benefited greatly from the evolution and democratization of computer and audio technology in the early ’00s. I was fascinated by sounds that could not be created by humans, such as real-time audio synthesis and granular synthesis. Now, 20-odd years later, I am fascinated by sounds that cannot be created with a computer. It was a unique acoustic texture created by deterioration and wear, including accidental wear, due to old technology that is disappearing. It’s like a memory of my old days in Iwate.　

credits

All tracks written and produced by Yui Onodera
Recorded & composed in Tokyo and Iwate, 2022-23.
Yui Onodera : Electric guitar, Piano, Electric violin, Field recordings, Found
objects, Portastudio 414MKII, SONY CF-1480 & CF-2400, Processing, and Various Synthesizers, Various Cassette-corder.