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These recordings represent this most recent iteration of Ai no Keshiki (Indigo Views), an installation created in 2018 by Norbert Herber and Rowland Ricketts in conjunction with the Awa Indigo Art Project of Tokushima Prefecture. Boxes originally used to fade indigo-dyed cloth are once again repurposed as miniature speaker cabinets in a twelve-channel array that encloses the gallery. Their sound is a four-voice, musical system transformed through field recordings that capture the living history of traditional Japanese indigo dyeing and production. Each voice reaches back—through the void where light once passed—with a sonic impression of the forces that brought color to the cloth.
In October 2020, the installation was included in Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020, at the Renwick Gallery, of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington D.C., USA.
