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Soundsphere

by Akio Suzuki

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De Koolmees: Suzuki Type - Glass Harmonica 23:46
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2.
Analapos A: Voice 14:44
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Analapos B: Multiple Stand 22:33
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4.
Analapos C: Object For A Single Person 09:19
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A note from Lawrence English

Akio Suzuki has always been an artist in search of unexpected sound, and curiosity has been his guiding principle.

Whether that be curiosity for objects, spaces or places, his work has been guided by a porousness and pliability which has allowed him to explore an enormous sonic terrain. This freedom has also allowed him to develop a language in sound that remains utterly his own.

Nowhere is this more evident than in his approach to instrument creation. During the 1970s Akio Suzuki devised a series of instruments that would become his sonic signatures. The Analapos and De Koolmees are perhaps his most readily identifiable instruments and it is these two that make up the core of material from which Soundsphere is created.

Soundsphere, recorded in 1990 at Hut Apollphuis in Eindhoven, captures Suzuki at the height of his powers. It is a document of his music shaped by patience and dynamism, in equal measure. Few other recordings capture both the tenderness and the presence of Suzuki’s ways of discovering sound in his instruments.

On pieces such as Analapos A: Voice, he creates a wavering oceanic vocal drone that echoes up and down, tracing the coils of the Analapos’ springs. The results are simultaneously minimal and expansive, reminding us that sound exists in the vertical and well as horizontal planes. Similarly his performance on De Koolmees: Suzuki Type - Glass Harmonica shares this intensity of focus. Suzuki’s strikes and strokes on the glass tubes, creating an endlessly evolving array of tonal inflections and pulses.

Soundsphere, which is celebrating its 45th anniversary, is an essential capture of the ways in sound Akio Suzuki has developed over his now six decades of practice.

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released May 8, 2026

Recorded at Het Apollohuis March 1990 (Eindhoven, The Netherlands).
Features two instruments created by Akio Suzuki in 1970: an echo instrument called the Analapos (tracks 2-4 composed 1970-73) and his version of a Glass Harmonica (track 1 composed 1973) used in the installation piece Space in the sun.
Drawings by Akio Suzuki
Design by Traianos Pakioufakis
Mastered by Lawrence English at Negative Space

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