2024 6.23
Digital / Casette
Improvisation by Masami Tada
Recorded by ato.archives
Mastered by Taku Unami
Cover design by Studio The Future
Text on the cassette sleeve by Masami Tada
English proofreading of the text by Zefan Sramek
Released by ato.archives
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Masami Tada started his career by joining the legendary improvisational group GAP in the 1970s, and since the 1980s, he has continuously embraced improvisation while expanding his creative expression into installations, photography, and more.
In recent years, Masami Tada has been capturing Mount Kobo, visible from his home in Kanagawa Prefecture, in photographs every day and sharing them on Instagram, continuing his practice of daily acts of creation. This release features recordings of his actual climb up Mount Kobo, during which Tada brought electronic devices, amps, and percussion instruments. These instruments created sounds in rhythm with the climbing process, and the recordings also capture Tada’s improvised performances atop Mount Kobo, including interactions with birds, airplanes, and other elements encountered during his performance.
多田正美は1970年代に伝説的な即興グループGAPに参加しキャリアをスタートさせ、80年代より、インスタレーション、写真などにも表現の幅を拡張しながら常に即興という行為に向かい合ってきたアーティストです。
近年、多田正美は、神奈川県にある自宅から見える弘法山を毎日写真に納め、インスタグラムで毎日発表するという行為・作品制作を続けています。今回リリースされる作品は、その写真におさめられる弘法山を実際に登山し、その登山する過程で多田が持ち込んだ電子デバイスとアンプ、パーカッションが、山登りのリズムに合わせ音を立てる様子と弘法山の頂上で多田が鳥や飛行機などと行った即興演奏の記録がおさめられています。
