Yota Morimoto: waterscape-raw

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Location: Den Haag, South Holland, Netherlands

Radio New Babylon

Radio New Babylon sites music and sound art in and around the New Babylon complex.

piano: Akane Takada.

music: Yota Morimoto.

a fragment of a piano piece composed and recorded in new babylon. unlike its original form this version is devoid of parts other than the piano. the emptiness and the somewhat decontextualized musical time leave space for the 'raw' resonance.

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