by Carlos M. Pozo



"Most Japanese noise artists never use computers or very high-tech equipment. We tend to be very low-tech and analogue, so our actions show the effects of expanded noisehands, muscles...the body's movement." Masami Akita (Interview with Arthur Potter)





"I wanted to compose real surrealistic music in a non-musical way. Surrealism is also reaching unconsciousness. Noise is the primitive and collective consciousness of music. My composition is automatism, not improvisation." Masami Akita (Interview with Oskari Mertalo)





"My first motivation for creating sound was anti-use of electric equipment-Broken tape recorder, broken guitar, amp etc. I thought I could get a secret voice from equipment itself when I lost control. That sound is unconsciousness, libido of equipment. Then I tried to control them with more powerful process." Masami Akita (Interview with Dixon Christie)





"I named my project Merzbow after a great work by the German collage artist Kurt Schwitters which he called "The Cathedral of Erotic Misery". He made an art from oddments he picked up from the street, just as I make sound from the scum that surrounds my life. I was very inspired by Dada and Surrealism. Probably the greatest idea of Surrealism for me is "Everything is Erotic, Everywhere Erotic". for me, Noise is the most erotic form of sound...that's why all of my works relate to the erotic." Masami Akita





"I'm working on the forthcoming 53 CDs project for an Australian label, and this is no joke. It will contain 53 CDs. It is set to include almost all my early cassette-only recordings (40 CDs) and ten unreleased studio/live releases, plus three new techno CDs." Masami Akita (Interview with Chris Twomey)



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