MEMORA8ILIA
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❝ “I decided to take the surrealist approach of ‘pure psychic automatism’ to see what poured out of me,” she recalls. “Woodland Encounter,” “Under a Glass Bell,” “The Grotto,” “The Mechanical Age,” “The Flaneur,” and “Psychic Sweeping” are all products of those sessions; the through line holding them together is their exploratory spirit and clarity of vision. ❞ *
https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/05/16/patricia-wolf-woodland-encounter-i-decided/
❝ Characterized by a spare electronic palette and carefully arranged synthesizers, the genre’s minimalism stood in contrast to the rampant consumerism of the time. As the fluorescent colors of arcade houses and anime films illuminated the country, Yoshimura rendered his work in earth tones. Although his music was in part a response to Japan’s financial boom and its cultural reverberations, his artistic motives extended beyond the scope of the economy… Rather than pacify his audience with soothing harmonies, Yoshimura opts for a more expansive emotional range. There are moments of calm, but there are moments of possible calamity, too. ❞ *
https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/04/22/hiroshi-yoshimura-green-characterized-by-a/