Inaudible Works 1994-2008, by Hyu

Inaudible Works 1994-2008

by Hyu

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Comes with a 12-page booklet and an obi. Standard jewel case.

The CD version will include a total of 14 tracks, excluding "Kaze wo atsumete" and "Any Repeated Sound Becomes Music".

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The 2LP version includes a bonus track, a cover of Happy End's "Kaze wo atsumete". Comes with a 6mm spine gatefold sleeve. Japanese/English liner notes.

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1.	五度圏のゲーデル、エッシャー、バッハ (Gödel, Escher, Bach in the Circle of Fifths) 02:38	buy track
2.	奇妙な雷竹の舞 (Cutie Bam-boo Dance) 05:47	buy track
3.	茄夢 (Num) 05:03	buy track
4.	WigWig 04:49	buy track
5.	みなれぬものたち (Indirect) 03:22	buy track
6.	ぎゃ・ダイナモ・ジェネレータ (Gya-dynamo-generator) 17:35	buy track
7.	どんな音でも二度繰り返すと音楽に聞こえる (Any Repeated Sound Becomes Music) 03:34	buy track
8.	Robotomy Mam 02:31	buy track
9.	離散とグリッドのインベンション (Grid Bug Invention) 04:21	buy track
10.	猫屋オドレミ (Odoremi) 06:41	buy track
11.	7Upとガラパゴスポップ (7 Up & Galapagos Pop) 04:40	buy track
12.	ガムランに憧れて (Longing for Gamelan) 05:42	buy track
13.	帰ってきたすごいヨッパライ (Ultimate Random Walker Comeback) 03:21	buy track
14.	1000万年後の子供たち (Children of the Distant Future) 06:14	buy track
15.	音の散逸構造 (Dissipative Structure of Sound) 06:00	buy track

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What have we here? 16 pieces of hard-to-classify music, created during the period 1994-2008, a cornucopia of playful, intelligent, questing and eminently listenable electronic music from Osaka-born artist Hyu, who released two albums on Nobukazu Takemura’s Childisc label, in 1999 and 2002. Although a member of the turn-of-the-century generation of artists subsumed under the rather vague term “electronica”, his work stands apart in many ways, particularly in his unique exploration of microtonality, his ability to humanize music technology, and his distinctive trait of combining a light touch and sense of fun with conceptual rigor. This collection is an intriguing mix of previously unreleased tracks and re-edited versions of previously released pieces. There is a wide range of music here, many of the pieces truly unique: wiggy and wiggly robo-pop, fractured funk, swinging sample assemblages of subtle sensory overload, dynamo-drones, overtone explorations. All of it distinctive, much of it prescient, all of it rising above the strictures of genre. Hyu’s music is appealing and fun, but driven by a desire to not only create music, but to create ways of creating music. This desire, this quest, is clearly audible in all of these tracks, and in the overall excellence of his music. Available on CD or 2LP with DL. The 2LP features a bonus cover of “Kaze wo atsumete” by Happy End. A notable feature is the entertaining and enlightening notes, written by Hyu himself.

Cover art: Hezu Utsurogi

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released February 16, 2024

強烈なエクスペリメント、にもかかわらず堅苦しさとは無縁の自由奔放でキュートな魅力、まるでHyuさんの笑顔のようです。音楽が一人の中の絶え間ない相克と実験から生まれることに改めて気付かせてくれます。―aus

全国Hyuが世界中の人に聴かれないと困る協会に入っています。
—suppa micro panchop

Hyuさん、おかえりなさい。
懐かしい未来の音がしたよ。
傑作。待ってた甲斐がありました。
—グーテフォルク／西山豊乃

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これはいったい何なんだ！？！　ヘンリー川原、スリン・パークシリ、サイケアウツと並ぶ重要アーカイブ・リリース。90年代から00年代初頭にかけ、竹村延和のChildisc等から作品を発表した大阪出身のクリエイター、Hyuの迷宮に秘められた驚異の作品群を解読するコンピレーション。

Hyuは「エレクトロニカ」という曖昧な言葉で括られてきた世紀末世代の音楽家の一員で、その実体はほとんど謎のままだった。しかし、Hyuの作品は多くの点で際立っており、微分音や倍音のユニークな探求、音楽テクノロジーを人間化する能力、軽快さと遊び心とコンセプチュアルな厳密さを併せもつ独特の創作物は、時間の風雪をものともしなかった。

本コレクション『Inaudible Works 1994-2008』は未発表曲と過去にリリースされた諸作の再編集版で構成され、新作とアーカイブの中間のような存在となっている。楽曲は多岐にわたり、多調＋微分音ドラムンベースもどき、人声合成技術の疑似ロボ・ポップ、ヴォイスと発電機のドローン重奏、破砕し分裂したファンク、感覚過多のスイングするサンプルの集合体、サイン波を単子とする構想、倍音列の追求、文学にインスパイアされた無調ピアノ曲、自己言及性の極に生まれたＪポップ……と目も眩むユニークな作品がひしめく。すべてが特徴的で知的、その多くに先見の明があり、ジャンルの拘束から超越している。こうしたHyuの音楽は魅力的で楽しいが、それは音楽を創造するだけでなく、音楽を創造する方法も創造したいという欲求に突き動かされている。この願望と探求心は本作のすべてに、そして彼の音楽全体の素晴らしさの中にはっきりと聴き取ることができる。

2LP版にははっぴいえんど「風をあつめて」のカヴァーをボーナス収録。本人による楽しく啓発的な解説も必読。装丁は虚木へずが担当。

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