mumei FOUR
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A rare 172-page text-sound art book from reductive journal
reductive journal was founded in 2013 and approaches to text-sound
compositions by examining how text and sound are related, defined and inter-
permeated in various levels of experiences. The journal has released three free
online editions including works from Taku Sugimoto, Toshiya Tsunoda, Manfred
Werder, Jesse Goin, Joseph Clayton Mills and many more.
www.reductivejournal.com
FOUR is the first physical release from the journal’s team and it celebrates our
new publisher’s name, mumei. Eleven artworks linger in-between categories of
critical thinking, sonic art, music, visual art, images and literature, articulating
silence and space and perceiving the idea of activity or non-activity.
Contributors are Ryoko Akama (UK), Daniela Cascella (UK), Patrick Farmer (UK)&
Trevor Simmons (UK), Jurg Frey (Swiss), Christine Sun Kim (USA), Sarah Hughes
(UK)&David Stent (UK), Joseph Clayton Mills (Canada), Daniel del Rio (Spain),
Manfred Werder (Swiss), lo wie (Korea), Audra Wolowiec (USA)
Edited by Ryoko Akama, Heather Frasch and Daniel del Rio
Designed by Vasco Alves
Published by mumei
Printed and bounded Publirep
edition of 262 copies
contact – ryoko@mumeipublishing.com
ISBN 978-0-9934337
155 x 230 mm / 172 pages / naked spine
www.mumeipublishing.com
Contributors’ Biography
Ryoko Akama is a sound artist/ composer/curator. She approaches the aesthetics of
silence and space in her compositional practice which uses diverse mediums such as text,
objects and electronics. Akama explores sound performance with sine tones and
produces installations with simple objects and electronics. She runs melange edition label
and co-edits reductive journal.
ryokoakama.com
Daniela Cascella is a London-based Italian writer. Her work is focused on sound and
literature across a range of publications and projects, driven by a longstanding interest in
the relationship between listening, reading, writing, translating and recording. She is the
author of F.M.R.L. Footnotes, Mirages, Refrains and Leftovers of Writing Sound (Zero
Books, 2015) and En Abyme: Listening, Reading, Writing. An Archival Fiction (Zero
Books, 2012).
danielacascella.com
Joseph Clayton Mills is a Chicago-based musician, artist, and writer whose work includes
text- based paintings, assemblages, and sound installations. In addition, he currates
Suppedaneum, a label focused on releasing scores and their realizations.
josephcmills.com
Patrick Farmer hums the allegretto from Beethoven’s seventh symphony most days, he
researches the ears of birds, and is tickled by the shared etymological root of pinna and
feather. At some point, all these things end up in his work.
patrickfarmer.org
Jürg Frey has developed his own language as a composer and sound artist with the
creation of wide, quiet sound spaces. He has mainly composed music for classical
instruments. He has worked with compositional series, as well as with language and text,
loudspeakers and different non–acoustical material in spaces.
Sarah Hughes is an artist, composer and performer whose work explores the boundaries
of interdisciplinary practice, moving between sculpture, installation, musical composition
and performance, publishing, drawing and collage. Activities of placement and
rearrangement recur across all forms of her work and are used as tools for thinking about
spatial, material and social relations.
sarahhughes.org
Daniel del Río lives and works in Guadalajara, Spain.
David R J Stent is an artist, writer, curator and performer whose work is concerned with
relationships between text, image and publishing practices. His most recent work has
been concerned with the role of fiction in art practice, particularly in association with
artists’ publications, collaborative authorship, and the use of theory and philosophy in
contemporary art. He is a founding member of The Set Ensemble and a founding editor
of BORE, a journal of scores for performance.
skurrilsteer.wordpress.com
Christine Sun Kim uses the medium of sound through technology, performance, and
drawing to investigate and rationalise her relationship with sound and spoken languages.
christinesunkim.com
Trevor Simmons lives, earns a wage and works in London. He has recently scored a
studio. Besides enjoying the walks to and from the studio, occasionally he pauses from
drawing repetitive coloured marks and finds another piece finished. With many thanks to
Daniela Cascella, whose publication, F.M.R.L. provided impetus for this work.
Manfred Werder is a composer and performer. His scores and projects aim at letting
appear the world’s natural abundance.
manfred-werder.blogspot.pt
lo wie
lo-wie.blogspot.com
Audra Wolowiec is an interdisciplinary artist whose work oscillates between sculpture,
installation, text and performance, to produce conceptually driven work with an emphasis
on sound and the material qualities of language. Her sound installations and
experimental language scores often use the gap, space, or breath in between speech—
not as forms of negation, but as complex generators of meaning. audrawolowiec.com