Nam June’s Spirit

The new Aki Onda's opus "Nam June’s Spirit Was Speaking" 

is now released by Recital as LP and Bandcamp.

Limited Edition of 250 LPs
20-page art booklet including rare photographs of Nam June Paik from the set of Michael Snow’s film
Rameau’s Nephew (1974), two essays on radio-wave phenomenon (by Onda and Marcus Gammel),
and a remembrance of Paik by Yuji Agematsu.

"Nam June’s Spirit Was Speaking" to me occurred purely by chance. In 2010, I was spending four days at Nam June Paik Art Center in South Korea for a series of performances and had plenty of free time to wander. The building was packed with Paik’s artwork and related material. I have always felt a close kinship with him as an artist, and so it was a great opportunity to immerse myself in his works and ephemera.
It was that night I made the first contact, via a hand-held radio in a hotel room in Seoul. 
It was literally out of the blue. Scanning through the stations, I stumbled upon what sounded like a submerged voice and I began to record it in fascination. I concluded this was Paik’s spirit reaching out to me.

Commissioned in 2017 by documenta 14’s radio program “Every Time A Ear di Soun,” these recordings were continually broadcast on eight radios stations around the world that year. Nam June’s Spirit is a beautifully formed homage, I cannot think of any other like it.

Aki Onda - 2020

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