SKMT | dig 🌕 Shizen no Koe By Ryuichi Sakamoto (from the exhibition “Sublimis: The World Seen Beneath the Surface”) Listen here: sitesakamoto.com/dig/ “Shizen no Koe” (the title is in Japanese only, but it can be translated as “Voice of Nature”) was originally composed for the soundtrack of Giuseppe La Spada’s interactive installation “Sublimis: The World Seen Beneath the Surface” (first exhibited at the Triennale di Milano in October 2015). The minimal installation invites visitors to enter a room where “Shizen no Koe” plays alongside a video of flowing water, and encounter a pool they can touch. Touching the water alters both sound and image, demonstrating how human contact affects the flow of nature. Their collaboration began when La Spada reached out about Sakamoto's Stop Rokkasho project (an anti-nuclear awareness campaign Sakamoto founded in 2006), leading to La Spada providing tour visuals for the Sakamoto + Fennesz cendre tour (2008) and “Hana no Ame” for Kizunaworld (2012). In an interview with Juliet Contemporary Art Magazine, La Spada expressed the profound effect meeting Sakamoto had on him and his work: “A very important person for me, my life would be completely different without this encounter. Having the honor of collaborating with a master like him is a constant reference also in the absence. His depth of vision and intent have changed me forever. My work on Nature is the child of this encounter.” "My opinion is that one of the roles of art is to connect us to Nature again and to remind us about the fact that we humans are part of Nature." - Ryuichi Sakamoto art.giuseppelaspada.com/Trie… #skmtnews #skmtdig #ryuichisakamoto #shizennokoe @giuseppelaspada

Giuseppe La Spada (Mount Etna), Damian Lentini (Munich), Alec Fellman (New York), Andri Snær Magnason & Kaśka Paluch (Reykjavik), Jaques Morelenbaum (Rio de Janeiro), Atom Heart (Santiago), Cheng Chou (Taipei), Nima Massali (Tehran), Seigen Ono (Tokyo)