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Atelier Jaku 工房・寂

@atelierjaku.bandcamp.com

Based in Zushi, Japan, Atelier Jaku produces social, spiritual, and political 'new music' engaging with the transcendent and sublime within the real world. Artistic director: Daryl Jamieson. en.atelierjaku.com

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Atelier Jaku 工房・寂 @atelierjaku.bandcamp.com · 30/08/2026

Our artistic director's first book “Experimental Music and Japanese Aesthetics: Silence, Nature, and Hollow Listening”, has been published by Bloomsbury: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/experimen... Ettore Garzia calls it 'one of the most refined and introspective publications…[on] the "life of sound"'

Book cover: “Experimental Music and Japanese Aesthetics: Silence, Nature, and Hollow Listening” by Daryl Jamieson

Book back cover:
'A profound meditation on sound, listening and being, Jamieson reframes experimental music through Japanese philosophy.
Bridging Dögen and Cage, Zeami and Kondo, he invites readers to encounter listening as an ethical and ontological practice beyond western modernity.' ––Ken Ueno, Professor, UC Berkeley, USA

A rich, interdisciplinary exploration of music through Japanese aesthetics that calls for a new way to think about nature and the role of silence.
The art, aesthetics and philosophies of medieval Japan and its contemporary Kyoto School lie at the centre of this book. Daryl Jamieson applies East Asian aesthetics, rooted in nature and ways of being that are very different from those of late-capitalist subjects, to critique contemporary experimental music from both Japan and the western world.
Introducing the unique features of Japanese aesthetics, Jamieson connects it to experimental music tradition that includes John Cage and his deep interest in Zen and Fluxus artists such as Yoko Ono. His original interpretation of sound constructs a new way of being in the world, showing how we can cultivate a more ethical way of hearing which is grounded in our environment.
This is a treatise for an aesthetics grounded in Buddhism and a music based on the ethics of respect for the environment. For anyone interested in cross-cultural interpretations of art and reality, it tells us why listening to difficult, challenging and obscure music matters in our present era of crises.

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Atelier Jaku 工房・寂 @atelierjaku.bandcamp.com · 23/04/2026

"Descants", five pieces for soloists (Ko Ishikawa (shō/u), Yuta (treble voice), Tomoko Akasaka (viola), and Shozan Hasegawa (shakuhachi)) in outdoor environments taking their inspiration from mediaeval Japanese concepts related to time and place, will be released 28 April. atelierjaku.bandcamp.com

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