9⁰ (5) by Shuta Hiraki

9⁰ (5)
SHUTA HIRAKI
November 2023

To celebrate its 15th anniversary, 901 Editions launches a virtual residency program, inviting artists to share their creative process during the time span of a month. They have no pressure on any side and are really free to do whatever they want. We encourage them to focus on a specific theme/concept or methodology of their choice, as well as to follow their own spontaneity. We believe that uncertainty and hesitation are part of the creative process and have their own value. Life is a process, we learn by doing. The pieces will be uploaded irregularly on a dedicated Bandcamp page, only when artists are willing to do so. Just for the residency period, we offer the work as “free / name your price”. We called the residency program 9⁰, playing with the numbers 9, 0, and 1: any number to the power of 0 is always 1.

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SHUTA HIRAKI is a Japanese musician living in Nagasaki. He started making music and field recording around 2012 as a self-taught musician, and has released his works on labels around the world such as Vaagner, LINE, Falt, Rottenman Editions, and KYOU Records.

His musical interests are wide-ranging, and he explores the critical points of ambient and drone music in terms of both structure and thought, using a variety of techniques including synthesis, acoustic instruments, field recordings, and sampling collage.

In addition to producing many pieces using electronic processing, he often plays a drone instrument called a shrutibox in his live performances in recent years.

He also writes about music under the name yorosz and contributes to numerous magazines and web media.

https://obalto.bandcamp.com/
https://twitter.com/yorosz
https://www.instagram.com/yorosz/

Tracklist

1.	Pythagoras_Wolf's Footprints	2:58

2.	Olympos Pentatonic_Strum Improvisation	1:08

3.	Didymos' Revision	2:15

4.	Etude For Syntonic Comma	2:57

5.	Ptolemy's Chromatic_Homage	3:03

6.	Archytas' Enharmonic_Downstairs	3:28

7.	Ancient Chinese Tuning_Arbitration	2:44

8.	al-Fārābī's Method_Hesitation	5:10

9.	Safi al-Din's Method_Hesitation	4:48

10.	Just a prelude	1:08

Credits

released October 31, 2023

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