Para quem não conheça a "música" deste Akifumi e pretenda ouvi-la, o melhor será preparar-se emocionalmente para e como usufruir de ruído. A surpresa é que de repente esquecemos onde estamos, e aí a rugosidade afiada e metálica abre uma porta límpida e alva, na ferida aberta pela instável e incómoda existência do som. Pages from the book, Live at Besançon 1997, para começar.

"Akifumi Nakajima, better known as the prolific creator of noise and ambient music, Aube, is an unusual musician. He admits: "I don't know whether Aube is music or art, perhaps it's just the design of sound and packaging. The packaging and design are very important for me, I want to keep each release united with the sound source as much as I possibly can."
Akifumi's day-job is as an industrial designer, and this seems to be reflected in the way that his releases consistently examine just one material. Each album starts from only a single sound source, and since Aube's first release in 1991, these have included fluorescent lamps, single voltage-controlled oscillators, water, wire, an "executive decision-maker", air, metal, and telephones. The sounds that result range from mesmeric, repetitive ambience through to cathartic torrents of noise these releases are often as much art objects as musical albums, existing only in tiny micro-editions and dedicated to the obsessive examination of their material."

em Brian Duguid http://media.hyperreal.org/zines/est/intervs/aube.html