My encounters with various sound artists since coming to Frankfurt am Main, Cologne and Berlin prompted me to quit viewing music through simple music industry labels and started me on my search for a methodology that would allow me to appreciate sound as a spatial art understood as a formative art, rather than a performing art.
Since Galerie Mario Mazzoli, a Berlin gallery specializing in sound art, and Carsten Nicolai’s Galerie Eigen Art were places related to Onpa sound artists, there are chance meetings with so-called sound sculptors who come there. To begin with, Berlin was a city that formed the foundation of definitive sound art in the latter half of the last century through places such as DAAD and Galerie Giannozzo. In addition, I learned about the electronic music of Cologne by working with a member of CAN, Irmin Schmid, and have interacted with many musicians of electronic music that play out of Frankfurt am Main. Through the value of those experiences, the simple release of a record or CD became tedious, and around that time I began to no longer feel any artistic evolution of progressiveness about the method of continuing to present work as a music label. Today, I have become an Onpa active as a curatorial collective in media art.

In this post, I want to introduce the Museum of Modern Electronic Music (MOMEM), which is set to open in Frankfurt am Main (in Japan, it’s just called Frankfurt), where I first lived when I moved to Germany.