Sound End。
Shinya Fujii Laboratory (x-Music Lab), based at Keio University SFC, explores yet-unknown forms of sonic expression across disciplinary boundaries. “Sound End。” presents works by x-Music Lab students as the final presentation of the Spring 2026 semester.
Sound itself cannot, in essence, be preserved.
Records, MP3s, and other media, for example, make sound reproducible as inscriptions, yet they can never fully restore it.
We are always left behind “after sound has ended,” placed in a position where we can only stand by as music and sounds pass us by, are overlooked by us, and overlook us in turn.
Left behind “after the end,” we remain within an error that cannot speak of anything, yet as things come to an end, we can still scheme for something to suddenly mutate.
The works exhibited and presented here are these unknowable things that exist after sound has ended, or perhaps outside sound itself.
With sound already ended and all of us left behind “after the end,” when sound disappears, what will we hear here, and what will we leave behind here?
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