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Au. Pt. C.

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Au. Pt. C. --- 2020-12-14

"The name of the piece, Au. Pt. C. comes from one of my interests. I have been thinking about the inexplicability of the thing called value. Gold, platinum and diamonds have already been in the ground just under our feet for a long time. The sound I collected in the field is the same as them, too. I just refine the sound into worthwhile pieces. To be honest, all of these things are in hindsight. In 2012, when I was working on the piece, there were many shops in Tokyo that said "We buy gold, platinum and diamonds," after the nuclear disaster, and the sound that was played on a loop from those shops was annoying. I just parodied it. Au. Pt. C. is a piece made for 8ch speakers system. Therefore, the stereo version of it is, so to say, like a pressed flower. It still has width, but loses depth. This piece contains many words as a soundscape. They always fill our city in Japan. For example, a child shouting "Helicopter!", an advertisement announcing the start of sales of Windows 8 OS, fragments of speech from a rally against nuclear power plant, and so on. Of course, it could be helpful to understand the work if you could understand what they saying. I agree with that idea for a moment, but then I think again. Then, I find that it need not be so. People are shouting something, and that is enough for me. The important thing for me is that we have unclear meanings, and each of us can imagine all sorts of things."