Unstable Contacts

‘Unstable Contacts’, essay in The Middle Matter, sound as interstice, Caroline Profanter, Henry Andersen and Julia Eckhardt eds. Umland: Bruxelles, 2019.

Toshiya Tsunoda’s track ‘Unstable Contact’ on the album Scenery of Decalcomania from 2004 is as much a conceptual work as it is a sonic composition. It is a sonic thought that makes us think what a contact is, its experience and consequence, and what it is connecting, what is touching and what is being touched. It makes us rethink the stability of these contacts, their purpose and direction, and allows us to contemplate also whether their misses and happenstance might provide a useful way to think of how things are.