The five-channel sound installation "Stolen Scars" by Eiki Mori was exhibited in the "Takamatsu Contemporary Art Annual vol.10 There Is No Boundaries Here./?” at the Takamatsu Art Museum from February 11 to March 21, 2022. And this is the documentary soundtrack of that work.
“There is a boy who has been deeply hurt, heartbroken and has not recover yet. You can’t talk to him or rub his back. Instead, you can only ring this bell for him.”
When Mori created "Stolen Scars,” he first sent a handbell and the above note to his friends. They recorded the sound of handbells in their own environment and with their own feelings. Mori looped the recorded data and created five sound sources. In the museum installation, different loop sound sources were repeatedly played from five horn speakers placed near the ceiling of the exhibition space.
The documentary sound was recorded in cooperation with the Takamatsu Art Museum during the hours after the museum closed. Recording, mixing, and mastering was done by Masami Baba (salad). He also participated as a co-star in a performance version of "Stolen Scars" that was held as a related event to the exhibition.
Droplets of water are set to drip from three infusion containers suspended from the ceiling, each at a different speed. Each of the three players produce sound by rubbing with their fingers a wine glass that catches the droplets from one of the containers, with the scale changing according to the amount of water that accumulates. The first track documents this process for ten minutes, during which the players continuously watched the water droplets fall. The second track documents the players continually rubbing the glasses until the water dripping is complete. Both tracks make audible how the level of 300cc water gradually shifts. - Edition: 300 - Takahiro Kawaguchi http://takahirokawaguchi.tumblr.com/ - Photographs by Takahiro Kawaguchi Design by Shin Akiyama / edition.nord http://editionnord.com/ Printing and production by chiku chiku laboratory — Keiko Miyahara, Morito Kozuma Product Photographs by Morito Kozuma © 2021 Takahiro Kawaguchi Published by immeasurable
