{"product_id":"鈴木昭男-akio-suzuki-zeitstudie-lp-dl","title":"鈴木昭男 Akio Suzuki - Zeitstudie (LP+DL)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn May 1984 I appeared at a German festival called Pro\u003cbr \/\u003e\nMusica Nova, organized by Radio Bremen. I then travelled to\u003cbr \/\u003e\nBerlin by car with Rolf Langebertels, the owner of Galerie\u003cbr \/\u003e\nGiannozzo who had driven to Bremen to hear me perform. I still\u003cbr \/\u003e\nremember very vividly the experience of passing through the\u003cbr \/\u003e\ncheckpoint to enter West Berlin, a city that floated like an island\u003cbr \/\u003e\nin the middle of the still socialist GDR. I had previously visited\u003cbr \/\u003e\nBerlin in 1982 to perform at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien at an event\u003cbr \/\u003e\nthat Rolf had organized. This time too Rolf had organized a\u003cbr \/\u003e\nconcert for me at the Technische Universitat. Playing off the title\u003cbr \/\u003e\nof the piece (\u0026ldquo;Study Time\u0026rdquo;) I had performed at Pro Musica\u003cbr \/\u003e\nNova, I titled the piece for this concert \u0026ldquo;Zeitstudie\u0026rdquo;.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eI owe Rolf a great deal of gratitude, as it was him who\u003cbr \/\u003e\nencouraged me by releasing my very first cassette tape,\u003cbr \/\u003e\n\u0026ldquo;Zeitstudie von Akio Suzuki\u0026rdquo;. In recent years it has become\u003cbr \/\u003e\ndifficult for me to carry heavy instruments around with me, and\u003cbr \/\u003e\nI have started to do simpler performances with objects\u003cbr \/\u003e\nassembled on site. So it feels wonderful to have the sound of\u003cbr \/\u003e\nthe battery of instruments I used back then to be returned to the\u003cbr \/\u003e\nlight of day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn \u0026ldquo;Zeitstudie von A.S.\u0026rdquo; I used an ANALAPOS, the echo\u003cbr \/\u003e\ninstrument I invented in 1970, and the Suzuki-type glass\u003cbr \/\u003e\nharmonica that I created in 1975. The ANALAPOS resembles the\u003cbr \/\u003e\ntin-can telephone that children used to play with: two metal\u003cbr \/\u003e\ncans, open at one end and connected by a coil spring. You\u003cbr \/\u003e\nplay it by stretching out the spring horizonally and then\u003cbr \/\u003e\nprojecting your voice into the open end of one of the\u003cbr \/\u003e\ncylinders. The second piece features a variation, where I\u003cbr \/\u003e\nwould suspend several ANALAPOS vertically and play them like\u003cbr \/\u003e\na percussion instrument.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Suzuki-type glass harmonica is in a simpler form than the\u003cbr \/\u003e\npre-existing glass harmonica, and consists of five long glass\u003cbr \/\u003e\ntubes of varying diameters suspended horizontally in a metal\u003cbr \/\u003e\nframe. As well as rubbing the tubes with wet hands, I developed\u003cbr \/\u003e\nmy own style of playing it using sticks. Once when I was\u003cbr \/\u003e\npracticing with it in the Netherlands, outside the window I was\u003cbr \/\u003e\nsurprised to hear a bird imitating my sounds. However, later I\u003cbr \/\u003e\ndiscovered that the bird always sang that way, and as a token\u003cbr \/\u003e\nof my regret for having ever doubted it, I borrowed the bird\u0026rsquo;s\u003cbr \/\u003e\nDutch name, De Koolmees, and I s till use it for my instrument.\u003cbr \/\u003e\nRecently, as I listened back to the cassette of \u0026ldquo;Zeitstudie von\u003cbr \/\u003e\nA.S.\u0026rdquo;, one of Hiromi Miyakita\u0026rsquo;s drawings was lying in front of me.\u003cbr \/\u003e\nThere was a sympathetic resonance between the sounds and the\u003cbr \/\u003e\ndrawing, so I decided to use it on the cover. This is a joyful music.\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 274px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1267095545\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=333333\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/room40.bandcamp.com\/album\/zeitstudie\"\u003eZeitstudie Akio Suzuki\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n","brand":"Room40","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49455964815619,"sku":"RM4119","price":4154.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0285\/1694\/1956\/files\/a1365271574_10.jpg?v=1724922285","url":"https:\/\/meditations.jp\/en\/products\/%e9%88%b4%e6%9c%a8%e6%98%ad%e7%94%b7-akio-suzuki-zeitstudie-lp-dl","provider":"Meditations","version":"1.0","type":"link"}