the noise angels of yukinori tokoro
Digressing on some noisy angel imagery from an obscure Japanese "photo museum" CD-ROM.
Ritually incarnated for Noise Jam 3 on the theme of Angels & Fates, and submitted simultaneously to Houdini Magazine’s Zine-O-Rama II Jam.
Built with Alienmelon's Electric Zine Maker and published using Jeremy Oduber's HTML 5 Reader for EZM with the additional sound feature by KlausVG.
ASSETS
- Most assets were lifted (directly, or with some modification) from the YUMEMIRU KAIROU “GALLERY OF DREAMS” CD-ROM for the purposes of critical commentary, annotation, or hyperfixative obsession.
- Font used is Neue Ernst by Peter Wiegel.
- N. Senada references pulled from the Meet the Residents fan wiki.
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Install instructions
Playable in browser. Digital booklet and printable PDFs available for download above.
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kept this tab open for a long time just because I like the sound of it so much and wanted to soak in this world
makes me think of how in real-world museums or galleries the aesthetic space around the art object might complement, but is rarely congruous with, the aesthetic world of the object, but here the grainy & compressed digital world is like a dense aesthetic rope wrapped around the bezels of these angel pieces. the creator/created nature of a gallery space is almost always obscured in order to highlight the work it features, so it feels fitting that here the messenger-space of the gallery is at least as compelling as the message-sent images of the angels
+ the disc art of Yumemiru Kairou reminds me of the kid dressed as a cherub riding the roast pig at the masquerade in Amadeus
You’re right there is something macabre and rococo about this imagery. Kind of reminds me of the exaggerated hyper-stylized stuff you’d see in a Peter Greenaway film!
Love your commentary on the “spaces”. Sometimes I find myself projecting this kind of smooth digital geometry onto REAL spaces too. Space as messenger, actually a suppressed subtitle I was thinking for this was “messengers of inner space”!!! You are clearly tapped into the same source I am…
It's always fascinating to learn such obscure works of art from the 90s outside of the mainstream media or western culture. For this to reach us today may as well be considered magic. Thank you for sharing <3
I totally agree it’s a marvel when something slips through the time fabric. Thank you!
man
how do we even begin
whatever it says it (the spectre, the spectacle, this review) says that there's no discussion of this era without an ape on your mind, a mindape if you will
thank you for the houdinohype!!