Aoki Takamasa is something of a household name in experimental electronic music – his relentless work on structures and loops have earned him considerable praise among friends of frequencies, culminating in a recent release on Raster-Noton, the venerable music imprint co-founded by mono.kultur’s very first cover star Carsten Nicolai. So we feel lucky to have had the pleasure of Aoki playing at one of our mono.klub events last year. But little known is the fact that Aoki-san is also a great photographer, collecting his daily pursuits on his brilliant photography blog Murmur. Commuting back and forth between Berlin and Japan, his work conveys a strong feeling of transit, of being in two places at the same time and nowhere quite at home. And indeed, Murmur is a great place to get lost in for a little while.
Photography by Aoki Takamasa
