Outline Of A Distant
Memory

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

CO — O4


Created with Rival Consoles (Ryan Lee West), the electronic producer known for emotional, texture-rich compositions blending analog warmth with digital precision. West's composition mirrors the incense's dissolution, both fading into the same atmospheric space. 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: RESINOUS, DEEP, WOODY.
MATERIALS: a blend of ancient woods, burnt sugar and Kyara.

FÀP Editions · CO — LISTENINGS

Outline of a Distant Memory

Noguchi Museum & ERASED TAPES RECORDS

Artist — Rival Consoles
Medium — Music
Status — Resting in Archive

10 / 2021

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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