雨刻 ukoku by Shinji Wakasa
The moment when rain falls is not merely a meteorological event—it seeps into space, body, and memory, bringing subtle fluctuation and purification to the world.
This EP, "ukoku(Rain刻)", revolves around three distinct types of rain—Suiu (rain enveloping new greenery), Byakuu (the intense summer downpour), and Hiu (the persistent, quiet drizzle).
Within sound and silence, between fluctuation and spaciousness, the presence of water emerges as an internal landscape.
Like the invisible flow in a Zen dry garden, each raindrop etches lines into space, quietly evoking personal memories and sensations in the listener.
Purification, fluctuation, memory—three kinds of rain transforming through time, captured in sound and silence.
雨が降る「とき」は、ただの気象現象ではなく、空間や身体、記憶に浸透し、世界に微かな揺らぎと浄化をもたらす。
EP『雨刻』は、三つの異なる「雨」――翠雨（新緑を包む雨）、白雨（激しく降り注ぐ夏の雨）、霏雨（静かに降り続く霧雨）――を軸に、
音と静寂、揺らぎと余白の中に、心象風景としての水の存在を刻み込んでいく。
雨音は枯山水の水のように見えない流れを空間に描き、記憶や感覚を静かに呼び起こす。
浄化、揺らぎ、記憶――三つの「雨」が、時間とともに変容し、音として現れるその瞬間を辿るための静かな小作品。
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Composer/artist.
He has composed music for commercials, films, fashion shows, and art exhibitions. In his own work as an artist, he is conscious of stillness and restraint, and believes in the intensity of sound and music rooted in resonance/texture. In recent years, he has been experimenting with a field approach to the themes of death and the materiality of music.
Photo by Kota Shoji