In addition to Mujuryoku Session, you’ve frequently done sessions
with other artists like Nude Jazz, Coffee & Cigarettes Band, OMA’N’SEI, and
more recently KOKENSHOW. I imagine you probably see something in each
other that then naturally leads to playing together. What’s
the best part about these sessions for you?
Good
question. Maybe the energy? I like how people can lead me to notice things
about myself. When I do sets or make music on my own, I can never really
surpass my own imagination. I do take a hard look at it, though. While I do
choose who I work with, miracles and coincidences tend to happen. Something
will happen, or I’ll newly discover myself, and that insight makes its way into
the sound. In the same way, we’ll do a session and the other person will maybe
have a different energy than usual, and then I vibe off of that and we see what
kind of music comes out of it, like our senses become more sharp and clear, or we have
a conversation with sound since we aren’t great at communicating. And since
it’s a conversation, there’s that fun of naturally getting more and more audio
expressions.
Like
you can be more open?
Yeah.
When I’m doing music by myself, it’s easy to turn inward. Sure, it’s fun having
everything be self-contained and creating my own world, but when I think about
what I feel is good about sessions, I’d probably have to go with the harmony,
the resonance. You could call it diversity, but I think it’s way better if
there’s harmony. Those kinds of realizations about sound also come to me.
Speaking on sessions now, what I’m looking to do is use instruments and
technology through my own sense as a DJ to transform natural phenomena or
wonders into audio, creating natural grooves and harmonies that are organic
like living creatures, or maybe put more simply, like river currents or waves.