{"product_id":"daikan","title":"Daikan","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Earth is burning, covering all environments in ashes. Smoke comes to us from computers—from social\nnetworks accelerating the spread of burnt affects, damaging our ability to feel and respond to what the planet\nstrives to express.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe need to cool down. Thomas Köner’s music can help change the pace of our perceptions:\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1) In DAIKAN (2002) — a Japanese term meaning “the coldest” or “the coldest part of the year”—the ear\nstretches until touching the depth of time that persists in the ice; a sonic drama offers the slowness thanks to\nwhich the skin of perceptions can reconstitute themselves; icequakes awaken listeners to the frozen life\nwithout scaring them.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2) Banlieue du Vide, considered by many to be Thomas Köner’s most iconic audiovisual work and best kept\nsecret, has not been released previously. It is in the collection of a couple of art museums, e.g. the Centre\nPompidou in Paris, and has been awarded the Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica in 2004, in the category\nDigital Musics. Banlieue du Vide is the result of months of time-lapse observations of empty streets in the\nFinnish Arctic Circle, shown in glacially slow slow-motion. Phase cancellation, on which all noise cancelling\ntechnology is based, here affects the perception of time, the sense of the flow of time extinguishing itself.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt this stage the void is not yet empty, traces of past noise fill the listeners mind with their haunting\npresence. A remastered stereo version of the soundtrack is released as a special premiere as Bonus Track\nof the DAIKAN album. Listening to this album, an excess of heat turns into an empowering coldness—like\nthe transient feeling of our terrestrial embodiment in the midst of entropy.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFréderic Neyrat in October 2022\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mille Plateaux","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50468324213067,"sku":"2007166","price":36.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50468322181451,"sku":"2007164","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/MP49CD_ba5c0499_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727346944","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/products\/daikan","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}