Hiromi Ishii on "Ryum":
"Ryum" intends to create a close relationship between visual- and music-part in the sense of gagaku and noh (traditional Japanese music), and their aesthetics. This piece does not include any sudden explosions, or surprising interruptions as they are not the expression ways of gagaku elegance. The subtle changes and slowly floating transformations and percussive sounds which give from time to time accents to the floating phrases are the manner of this piece.
The audio part consists of an accumulation of fragmental sounds of Japanese instruments which have been processed to produce ‘between sounds’ of gagaku and noh.
The visual part was transformed from only one photo. Ryum means “dream stream”.
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