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Instinctive Plagiarism

by Kazuki Koga

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Kazuki Koga - Instinctive Plagiarism
MUSIC by Kazuki Koga
ART WORK by Ryohei Sasaki

Kazuki Koga is Japanese experimental electronic musician born in Fukuoka, Japan who had been based in Montreal, Canada 2015-2018.
Currently based in Fukuoka, Japan.
His music comes from the tradition known as GORGE, best described as an experimental electronic interpretation of rock climbing/mountaineering. Born in the mountains of Nepal and India, and developed in Japan, Gorge is only vaguely defined by its own secret codes and legends. Its purpose is to communicate the aesthetic and spiritual sublimity of rock climbing, and to explore the climbing route that leads to the summit of the gods.

Kazuki Koga has dedicated his new EP to a tradition of GORGE. "Instinctive Plagiarism" was created with the theme of plagiarism, appropriation, and falsification, with the aim of arbitrarily reconstructing music that seems to have approached or came into contact with GORGE before it was proposed as a subgenre of electronic music (Roots GORGE).

It is not a sampling, a remix, a tribute, either a homage, and a parody. GORGE is just an imitation.

It is a free-solo take on a route that was climbed in the past.

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Kazuki Kogaは福岡県出身の電子音楽家。
2015年から2018年までモントリオールを拠点に活動し、現在は北九州市を拠点に活動している。
ロッククライミング/登山の電子音楽的解釈として知られているGORGE。
インド/ネパールの山岳地帯で生まれ日本で発展したと伝えられているが、その実体は独自の暗号と伝説によって漠然と定義されているだけである。
その目的はロッククライミングの美的・精神的・身体的昇華を伝え、神々の山嶺へと続くルートを開拓することにある。

“Instinctive Plagiarism”は盗用・流用・改竄をテーマにGORGEが電子音楽のサブジャンルとして提唱されるより以前にGORGEに接近していた、または接触していたとみられる音楽(Roots GORGE)を恣意的に再構築することを目的として制作された。

サンプリングでもリミックスでもトリビュートでも、オマージュでもパロディでもない。GORGEとは只の紛い物である。

過去に登攀されたルートをフリーソロにて挑む。

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Artwork By Ryohei Sasaki
[ Details / CRACK and FISSURE ]

I picked up some rubble from a vacant lot in my neighborhood, and pasted pages from a book I had with the intention of using it for my work someday.

Whenever I find a good one, I would bring it back home, and as I made more and more of them, I began to devise ways to make the pasted paper blend in, to choose rubble that would stand on its own, and to understand what was easy to paste and what was not.
By the time I started having fun, I had more than I could carry.

A friend of mine who runs a gallery called HAITSU in Tokyo asked me to have an exhibition when he saw me having so much fun that I ended up making too much as having trouble keeping it in my place.

I was surprised to hear that because I had been making them just for fun, although of course I love them.

At about the same time, I started white ink drawings directly on the photographs of cracked artworks and objects, in art books that I had collected in the past.

This is a continuation of a painting I did in the past on the theme of "Better than before Breaking" that got inspired by kintsugi(golden joinery). I painted it while I was working. It

In kintsugi, the cracks are not just glued and repaired, but the cracks are glued but gold lines are applied to restore the original shape.
I was attracted to the lines of cracks shown by this emphasized kintsugi, so I added the lines to photographs from various countries and ages.

As I worked on these two different works at the same time, I began to think that it is possible to preserve the charm of a broken object while creating harmony in a slightly different way by adding a little touch of my own.

I see a lot of people in the world destroying things as soon as they get old, but I can make them look more attractive by not ignoring them and spending time to rebuild them in my own way,
Maybe that's just fun for me.


Artwork By Ryohei Sasaki
[ Details / CRACK and FISSURE ]

近所の空き地で建物が壊れたあとの瓦礫を持ち帰り、いつか何かに使おうと持っていた本のページを貼り付けてみた。

出先で偶然いいのを見つけた時は持って帰り、とりあえず、と作っていくうちにペーストした紙が馴染むように工夫したり、自立する瓦礫を選ぶようになったり、貼りやすいもの、そうでないモノがわかってきたり。
楽しくなってきた頃には自分で持てなくなるほど増えていた。

結局楽しくて、作りすぎて、保管場所に困り部屋に置いている状態を来福していたHAITSUという鑑賞室を東京でやっている友人が見て、展示をしようと呼び掛けてもらった。

自分では、もちろん好きだけど、完全に遊びのつもりで作っていたものだったので驚いた。

ほぼそれと同時期に
過去に集めていた博物館や美術館の本の中にある所蔵品や美術品の写真のヒビ割れてしまっているモノに直接白のインクで描くシリーズをはじめた。

これは過去に[Better than before Breaking]というテーマで絵を描いた時の続きをやっている感じで、作業の合間に描いていた。
[Better than before Breaking]とは”壊れる前より良くなった”という意味で、発想は金継ぎから来ている。

金継ぎは、ただ接着して修復するのではなく、亀裂を継ぎ更に金のラインを施し元の形にする。
この強調された金継ぎの見せるヒビのラインに惹かれて、あらゆる国や年代の写真にラインを入れていった。

この2つの違った作品を同時に作っていくうちに、壊れたものをそれそのものの魅力を残しつつ自分が少しの手を入れることでまた少し違った形で調和を生み出す事も出来るのではないかと思うようになった。

なんでも古くなるとすぐ壊してしまうという事を街でも多く見かけるけれど、それらを無視せず自分なりに再構築する遊びをすることでそこかしこが魅力的なものにみ見えるようになる。

それがただ楽しいのかもしれない。
www.instagram.com/p/CR8uGV0hEJ9/ より出典

Ryohei Sasaki Instagram : www.instagram.com/ryoheeeee/
HAITSU Instagram : www.instagram.com/haitsu.nishiogikubo/

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Sample credits:
“HYMARAYAN GIANTS” contains samples of “Consume Red” by Ground Zero
“Annapurna -अन्नपूर्ण-“ contains samples of “die pappel von karlspla” by Ground Zero
“Vertical Alpinism” contains samples of “Rebonds B” by Iannis Xenakis (performed by Christoph Sietzen)
“Harder Than It Appears” contains samples of “circular system 7777777” by Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O

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released December 4, 2021

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