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Ai no Keshiki

by Norbert Herber

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"Keshiki" in Japanese commonly refers to a scenic view or landscape, but it also refers to the moments of wabi-sabi found in a tea bowl, a whisk, a tea scoop or any of the other tools used in the tea ceremony. These keshiki are often points of unintentional patina accumulated through the process of making or use over time. As moments of sensation created between materials, people, and time, these “views” are both an internal indication and external manifestation of who we are and how we sense the ways in which we change over time.

"Ai no Keshiki" (Indigo Views) is an installation created in 2018 by Norbert Herber and Rowland Ricketts in conjunction with the Awa Indigo Art Project of Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. The work features over 400 individual pieces of cloth faded by participants over a 6-month period. Indigo enthusiasts from around the world agreed to host boxes in their homes, workspaces, and artist studios. Each box contained a piece of cloth dyed with indigo. On the face was an opening that would allow light to enter the interior of the box, and over time, fade the color of the dyed cloth. After a few months of fading, the cloth was returned to Tokushima and exhibited at Bunka no Mori, an arts center and museum in Tokushima.

In October 2020, the installation was included in Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020, at the Renwick Gallery, of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington D.C., USA.

These recordings represent this most recent iteration of the work started in Tokushima in 2018. The fading boxes are once again repurposed as miniature speaker cabinets in a twelve-channel array that encloses the gallery. Their sound is a four-voice, musical system transformed through field recordings that capture the living history of traditional Japanese indigo dyeing and production. Each voice reaches back—through the void where light once passed—with a sonic impression of the forces that brought color to the cloth.

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released October 16, 2020

Rowland Ricketts: Artistic direction
Norbert Herber: Sound and music system design

Mastered by Taylor Deupree at 12K
Design by Armin Vit, UnderConsideration LLC

Special thanks to Hiroo Izawa, Fumiaki Sato, Tomoya Takahashi, and Mauve Audiovisual of Tokushima, Japan; Nora Atkinson, Stefan Gibson, Jennifer Lee, Scott Rosenfeld, Harvey Sandler, Michael Sperow, and Rebecca Sullestra of the Renwick Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum; Robbie Hayes, Emily Zilber, and above all, Rowland Ricketts for nine years of exciting collaboration.

Dedicated to Jenny, Nadia & Benno.

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Norbert Herber Bloomington, Indiana

Norbert Herber is a musician and a sound artist. His work explores the relationship between people and sound within mediated environments—spaces created by software, sensors, speakers, and other mediating technologies.

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