Fading by Akhira Sano

ata019–21 focuses on Contemporary Environmental Music, through which ato.archives examines the current condition of Environmental Music today.

Excerpt from the notes by Akhira Sano:
This work is a piece of environmental music created from the sounds and spatial characteristics of architectural structures or materials in the process of disappearance. The project began with the intention of documenting my grandparents’ house—soon to be demolished—as a formative personal memory, and of transforming the “spatial sound” of a place destined to vanish into a work of art.
Recordings were made in the entrance, living room, kitchen, bedroom, and two rooms on the second floor, using a Tascam DR-07X. Based on these field recordings, the compositions were produced using the equipment the composer typically employs in their studio practice.

Profile:
Based in Tokyo and focusing on the imperfections and irregularities of form and sound, Sano creates, observes, records, and extends them through drawing, graphics, installation, videography, and music composition.

His major works include Penetrating, For Filtration (Important Records, 2019), Particle Dialogue – Observation and Recording (The Trilogy Tapes, 2022), Shadow’s Praise (IIKKI, 2023), D-R (LAAPS, 2025) and major solo exhibitions including Perspectives of Possibility (FAITH, 2021) and mē on – Seeing the Absent (TOH, 2022).

Tracklist

1.	Entrance
2.	Living Room	3:58

3.	Kitchen
4.	Bedroom, Study
5.	2nd Floor 1
6.	2nd Floor 2	2:43

Credits

releases February 6, 2026

Sounds, arrangements and mixing by Akhira Sano
Mastered by Taku Unami
Photography by Akhira Sano
Cover Design by Shinichi Suda
Released by ato.archives

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