Led By A Blue Bird
Through The Mountain

LISTENINGS: The ephemeral experience of incense through music and object. A Noguchi Museum collaboration exploring contemporary incense rituals.

CO — O2


Created with Masayoshi Fujita, the vibraphonist and composer known for minimalist, meditative compositions. Led by a Blue Bird Through the Mountain captures passage through stillness—over water, through cedar, moss, cold air, and stone. Fujita's composition moves with the incense's slow burn, both marking time through subtle transformation. In Koh-do, you don't smell incense, you listen to it—a meditation requiring the same attention as music.Part of Co / Listenings, launched in collaboration with the Noguchi Museum and Erased Tapes Records.

incense: AQUATIC, WOODY.
MATERIALS: An aquatic blend of mountain woods.

FÀP Editions · CO — LISTENINGS

Led by a Blue Bird Through the Mountain

NOGUCHI MUSEUM & ERASED TAPES RECORDS

Artist — Masayoshi Fujita
Medium — Music
Status — Resting in Archive

10 / 2022

Series Statement CO — Listenings

Incense as music, music as incense.

Inspired by Koh-dō — listening to scent with the same attention given to sound.

A musician composes the music.
Folie creates the incense.

An artist envisions an object — a permanent vessel that anchors the ephemeral.

All share the same duration. Burn and song unfold together.

Released on 12-inch vinyl with incense.

A contemporary ritual of active pause.

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