THE COLLECTION ARTAUD

A label of auditory alchemists forging the alternative future of sonic esotericism

ザ・コレクション・アルトー

音の秘匿主義の代替未来を先導する聴覚錬金術師を擁するレーベル

The Collection Artaud is a label dedicated to returning to the act of listening itself. We release sound works marked by structural, poetic, and spiritual depth. Rather than treating sound as a disposable product, we present it as a form that quietly acts within the listener and gradually unfolds over time. We value silent dialogue, and believe that in moving back and forth between silence and renewal, listening becomes something deeper and more intimate.

ザ・コレクション・アルトーは、聴くという行為そのものへ立ち返る為のレーベルです。構造的・詩的・精神的な深度を備えた音響作品を発表しています。音を単なる消費物としてでは無く、聴く者の内側に静かに作用し、時間を掛けて開かれていく構造として届けたいと考えています。無言の対話を尊び、沈黙と再生のあいだを往復するなかで、聴取はより深く、より個人的なものになっていきます。

The price attached to each release is only an entry point into that experience. The meaning and value of the work are left to each listener to determine for themselves. For those who wish to offer further support, it is possible to add extra value voluntarily.

ここで提示される価格は、その体験への入口にすぎません。作品の価値や意味は、それぞれのリスナーの内側で決まるものだと考えています。支援の意志を持つ方は、任意で価値を上乗せして頂く事も出来ます。

Q&A

― Please tell us how you have started the label, The Collection Artaud which is named after Antonin Artaud.

Artaud's To Have Done with the Judgment of God (1947) is one of my favourite texts. I feel Artaud was a person whose inherent congruities and incompatibilities with societal norms always conflicted with inter alia "Society". This left Artaud no option but to confront a world in which drastic-yet-peaceful changes were, and still are, impossible. In a similar vein, I feel strange (social) restraint from Japan - my home country. When I read Artaud, I thought/felt that I was truly a human being with a "body with [properly-functioning] organs". While one could enjoy our capitalism-driven world as if it were a mere game, few noble beings endeavour to reject to possess the insensitivity and disinterestedness required to play such a game. And so I believe it vital for those [so-called "artistic type" of beings] to make ceaseless efforts not to change oneself in accordance with Society. In my reading of Artaud, I feel his writing is one such effort to break or dissociate from social pressure(s). I dedicated the label perhaps as a declaration: TCA is the excavation and re/constitution of Artaud’s beings (with organs) in our modern age. Should the existence of The Collection Artaud somehow proved that an Utopian Garden / Sanctuary can still (certainly) exist, that just might be it.

Proofreading: Benjamin I. J. Mintzer
(Last edited on 17 Dec 2020)