Artist Statement
“I don’t know, you don’t know, we don’t know… yet?”
Polarity is one of the universal laws of the cosmos. If understanding is light, then what remains unknown is its shadow. If awareness exists in the “now,” then what has yet to be realized belongs to the past or future.
Just as there is “emptiness” (kū) between consciousness and unconsciousness, the world maintains its balance through the energy of opposing forces.
Today, we can immerse ourselves in music from all over the world. But in an era overflowing with easily digestible sounds, where does our sense of the unknown go?
GAIAMAMOO embraces this “not knowing” and transforms it into sound. Two Japanese musicians create layers of improvisational sound that collide and intertwine—an oriental, noisy landscape where chaos and harmony coexist. The music unfolds like shifting currents, refusing to be confined by fixed tempos, absorbing noise, and at times, stripping down to the stark resonance of raw sound itself. Like nature producing sound effortlessly, electronic instruments seek to dissolve into these waves, existing as part of the organic flow.
Nature accepts everything as it is, including the inevitability of decay. Within this rhythm of life lies a purity and emotional fluctuation that modern society is beginning to lose sight of.
GAIAMAMOO breathes this sensation into sound, resonating in the “now.”
To perceive what lies beyond understanding, through music.