{"product_id":"carl-stone-asuna-imu-plastos-cd","title":"Carl Stone \u0026 Asuna - Imu Plastos (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003eSampling and processing Asuna's arsenal of toy keyboards, computer music pioneer Carl Stone transforms seemingly throwaway sounds into chattering, plunderphonic memories before batting them back to the Japanese producer for further editing.\n\nYou can tell that 'Imu Plastos' was developed with live performance in mind. Sound artist Asuna, who's released on 12k, Faitiche and White Paddy Mountain, is already notorious for his \"100 Toys\" and \"100 Keyboards\" performances, wherein spirals of cheapo instruments are repurposed to create complex, textured electroacoustic compositions. Stone fits into the chain well; they performed together for the first time in 2024 and Stone worked on the audio in real time, taking mental notes for studio sessions that followed. In a more controlled environment, the duo pushed themselves to rethink the process, reversing the flow so that Stone would create the sound and Asuna would sample. \n\nThe finished album is a set of improvisations from these sessions that keeps rebuilding and deconstructing itself. Early on, you can still hear the creaky source material, but the first two tracks disappear in a matter of minutes - 'As Aural Consent' is the first substantial production and it's far more mysterious, 11 minutes of ratcheting noises and disquieting squeaks. 'A Salsa Nocturne', meanwhile, is a wind tunnel organ jam that you'd never guess was made using a bunch of kid's instruments and on 'Ulina as Ancestor', the duo burrow deep beneath the earth's surface, searching out eldrich resonances and sublime chaos. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 406px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2048083914\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=333333\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/room40.bandcamp.com\/album\/imu-plastos\"\u003eImu Plastos Carl Stone \u0026amp; Asuna\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Room40","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48268676825347,"sku":"RM4253","price":2347.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0285\/1694\/1956\/files\/a2037683054_10_48b4326c-44d2-4be6-a986-7fa7858670fe.jpg?v=1779866913","url":"https:\/\/meditations.jp\/en\/products\/carl-stone-asuna-imu-plastos-cd","provider":"Meditations","version":"1.0","type":"link"}