
"I collect the small sounds that no one notices.
Those 'Microsoundscapes' are very interesting in themselves.
The evening sun quietly shines over the city.
I listen to a lot of sounds with the mike in one hand.
When those sceneries metamorphose into music,
they give us a rich emotion.
There's a depth to vibrating sound,
along its flow."
- Yui Onodera, October 2007
Young japanese artist Yui Onodera officiates in the sphere of (ec)static ambient soundscapes where the ingredients mainly drift from environmental sound & field recordings, digitally treated & combined afterwards with the use of more traditional instruments which remain nevertheless largely unrecognizable, and melted with finesse in the final assemblage...
Like many artists with a vision, he launched his own label CRITICAL PATH in 2003 as a platform for releasing his initial works and asserting his own style, but also to sustain experimental music in his own country by organizing events...
Yui has also his hands into scores for experimental films, and contemporary dance & Butoh...
He has just released his first official extraordinary CD "Suisei" on the ever excellent and/OAR, and has another one out on the gripping GEARS OF SAND label...
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On "Substrate", Yui Onodera is definitely on a quest to unlock the fundamental vibe underneath things, pushing further the limits of perception... and it's as if he succeeded in capturing the silent auras gliding through our bodies, the night hum, the flickering of low lights above the trembling river...
"Substrate" goes through the membrane, leaving inner organic structure open & bare to see...
From aural bruises & drowned resonances, ascend mental pools like slow breaths...
Clouds seem to pass in unison...
a pure flow made of multiple streams all running to the same destination,
a delicate place of ultimate awareness...