Les jeudis tout ouïe

Mitchell Akiyama studied writing and literature, before dedicating himself to interdisciplinary studies. Then he became interested in the destabilization of established sound patterns. Situated in the interstices of classical, electronic composition and post-rock, their works oscillate between delicate melodies and disturbing explosions of sounds of all kinds. He enjoys recording compositions and improvisations for piano, strings and other instruments, which he restructures in the studio. Playing on the distortions that recording technology can cause, Akiyama produces music whose moment of creation has never really arrived. Imperfections - fingers scratching the strings, sighs and other signs of humanity - underlie and result in a digital simulacrum of performance. Mitchell Akiyama will improvise with objects, instruments and contact microphones. He will take live recordings of his instruments, fragment and atomize them using computer software and sound effects. Stretching and triturating a sound in an elegiac lament, stacking loops until only a mass of sound is heard, to give substance to inaudible sounds hidden between the digital and the digital.

-Translation of a text by Mathilde Gérom