HONORARY MENTION
0°C
Ryoji Ikeda
“My music is a mirror for the listener” As the title may suggest, 0°C is a sonic exploration at the very depths of human perception—the fragile line between life and death, dark and light, noise and silence. The authentic being is never to be achieved with complete and definitive perception of the uni- verse—the limited human is just a negligible drop somewhere between infinity and nonentity. There is no fulcrum for pretentious awareness and peace for one’s arrogant mind—obscurity, uncertainty and hesitation are the only true man’s satellites all along his lifeway. The limit of minimal 0°C is never to be overstepped, no matter what labels might be attached to it—noise, ambient or techno.
0°C is an exploration at the edge of one’s percep- tion—an extension of +/- and the next step. (Calmant, Lithuania)
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