Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto have announced a new joint album. Glass is a 45-minute long improvised live recording that draws its name from its recording location: architect Philip Johnson’s historic Glass House in Connecticut. Sakamoto and Noto “experimented with a keyboard, mixers, singing glass bowls, crotales, and the architecture of the building” to craft the album, with contact microphones used to capture the sound of “various weighted gong mallets with rubber heads that were gently but firmly dragged along the surface of the glass.” The Glass House finished construction in 1955 and is now a historic house museum. Glass arrives February 16 via Noton. Find the album artwork below.
Sakamoto and Noto previously teamed up on the original score to Alejandro González Iñárritu’s film The Revenant. Sakamoto released his most recent album async earlier this year.
