mumei publishing
Ryoko Akama and Heather Frasch co-run mumei publishing, an independent publisher of text-sound. They have published reductive journal since 2014 (renamed mumei journal from FIVE onwards) books, scores, newspapers and monographs that concern text-sound perceptions. Each edition contains interdisciplinary contributors from the fields of sound art, music, poetry, sculpture and the visual arts. Images below show their book FOUR. Their most recent edition NINE features the works of Mieko Shiomi.
Text Scores:
the sound of objects helps me remember: text scores for performers and objects (2017)
writings
Forces at Play. Book Chapter for The Body in Sound, Music and Performance. Edited by Linda O’Keeffe and Isabel Nogueira. Routledge Press. July 2021
Intimacy with Objects ARRAY Magazine International Computer Music Association Magazine. 2019
CD Review: Songs about Singing by Cassandra Miller with Juliet Fraser and Plus Minus Ensemble. Tempo Magazine. Cambridge University Press. 2020
Guest editor: Sound American Issue 17: mumei presents Networks of Listening 2017
what remains... performing traces in the works of lo wie and audra wolowiec
Glissando # 29, The conceptualism Issue. 2017 English Version
(Re-)Contextualizing Meaning with Physical and Sonic Objects in the work of Hanna Hartman
EMS14 Sound Art Conference, Berlin, Germany 2014 // Frasch_Hartman_Aug2014
Connecting Form and Body: Composing with micro-bodily movements and unstable sounds, 2014
Karlsruhe, Germany 2014
Exploring Ideas and Issues of “Aliveness” in Real-Time Composing
ORCiM, the Orpheus Research Institute in Music, Ghent, Belgium 2013
Engaging and Exploring Sound through the Physicality of an Instrument
Music and/as Process Conference, Huddersfield University, UK 2013
Sense Boxes: Exploring Tactility in Sound
Noise Conference, Huddersfield University, UK 2013
Augmenting the Flute: Linking Physical and Sonic Gestures
University of CA, Berkeley, CA 2010
Micro-gestures: A new intimacy with movement
University of CA, Berkeley, New Media Dept, CA 2009