Zwischen den zeilen von Steven Kazuo Takasugis werk Jargon of Nothingness

Steven Kazuo Takasugi's recent work Jargon of Nothingness for sampled sounds critiques the notion of »line« or »distance« as a means to explore contradictory perspectives while searching for a »void«. A critique of »distance« occurs in his piece through the use of magnified/focused sounds and shattered/infected reverberations. This critique provides ways to thwart one's assumptions regarding normative musical spaces. By turning sounds and the spaces they inhabit »inside-out« (i.e., through a depth perspective interchange), one is removed from the usual modes of assimilating sound objects and placed into a perpetual state of uncertainty. This uncertainty - manifested through contradictory perspectives - supports the »belief that the physicality of experience could (and must) be affirmed through the destabilization of logical faculties.« Takasugi's search for a »void« emerges from the interstices caused by this destabilization: a search that counters narrative trance and awakens one to reclaim a subjective footing so that music can possess a more critical humanist nature.