"I discovered a small universe by collecting environmental sounds and images of street walls" Nonturn
"The image of "Identify" seems like strata, which is a layer of condensed time. Over the years, it has been damaged, scraped, weathered, producing its own atmosphere. I visualized the lapse of time in accordance with the music that embraces the memory of the image." Kawashimatekkojo
Address
3-30-10 Ikejiri Setagaya-ku, Tokyo
5th Floor, Sanshu Building
Open
Mon. - Fri. 11:30 to 16:00 & 18:00 to 26:00
Sat. - Sun. 12:00 to 26:00
Address
3-1-12 Koenji-kita Suginami-ku, Tokyo
Open
Fri. - Mon. 15:00 to 24:00
Wed. 17:00 to 24:00
Tuesday : Closed
Audiobulb Records / AB136 / 2023
Release date : May 2023
Information : audiobulb.com
- Wherever
- Digress
- Pedestrian
- Eventually
- Abandon
- Opportunity
- Struggle
- Intention
- Gratification
"Melodies weave through hazy layers of delicate experimentation, embellished with pointillist rhythms."
— Silence and Sound (Roland Torres)
"More open, familiar, and radiant like colorful, light-shining jellybeans."
— Metia (Roko Yuzuki)
"Both playful and dreamy — ethereal ambient passages mixed with diverse airy rhythms."
— Luminous Dash
"Intricate details with clear melodic layers and mechanical rhythmic articulation."
— Etherreal
In the 1980s, the finance professor Jack Treynor conducted an experiment where he asked students to guess the number of jellybeans inside a jar. The result was that the average guess of the group was superior to the vast majority of the individual guesses.
I gathered 60 different sets from a wide variety of sample libraries all over the world, and selected 500 pieces of audio data. Without thinking of any specific melody, I randomly combined the samples and edited them to make them function together. Through repeated addition and reduction, unwanted ego and bias were removed, and only the parts that survived the selection process became the main motifs of each track.
Working for approximately one year, diverse source materials from around the globe converged into cohesive compositions with novel and original styles — a demonstration of how collective wisdom can be applied to music creation.
Audiobulb Records / AB077 / 2018
Release date : May 16, 2018
Format : Ltd CD + Digital Download
Information : audiobulb.com
- Identity
- Platform
- Evidence
- Compassion
- Appreciate
- Undefined
- Significant
- Involve
- Desensitize
"The heavily processed recordings are tuned, rearranged, and sculpted into enticingly beautiful compositions."
— Noise Not Music
"Yoneda finds the delicate, perfect balance between the manipulated and the unaltered."
— Noise Not Music
"It dances, pauses, pirouettes... a taming of chaos, a sloughing of rough edges."
— A Closer Listen
"The synchronicity between organic and mechanical elements galvanizes Territory."
— Igloo Magazine
Territory is a soundtrack for an artwork containing nine images of street walls in Tokyo. Yoneda collected urban field recordings over six years — traffic, conversations, construction — and processed them through digital manipulation to create rhythmic, cinematic compositions.
The collected street sounds were processed to build a personal utopia, which echoed the sounds of city and imitated the real world. The album transforms raw city sounds into orchestrated hybrid electronic music that balances industrial noise with melodic sensibility.
"I discovered a small universe by collecting environmental sounds and images of street walls." — Nonturn
This work focuses on "distance". We recorded oscillators (e.g. sirens, hustle and bustle, frogs, engines, a contrabass) from a distance of centimeters, meters, and kilometers, then edited them by controlling the oscillators' pitch, rhythm, and texture to construct huge and elaborate sustained sounds that sound like music.
mooor / Elmer and Elsie
mooor Procuct / MP001 / 2012
Release date : Oct 11, 2012
Format : Digital Download
Information : mooor.jp
Composed by Nonturn and Mulllr
Photography by Nonturn
Nozom Yoneda is a Tokyo-based composer and sound artist. Trained in jazz theory and influenced by club music and drone, he works under the moniker Nonturn to explore experimental approaches beyond traditional composition.
His debut album Territory (Audiobulb Records, 2018) was constructed entirely from field recordings — environmental sounds and images of street walls — with no conventional instruments. The record reflects his interest in discovering hidden sonic universes within everyday urban life.
For his second album Jellybeans (Audiobulb Records, AB136, May 2023), Yoneda adopted a "wisdom of crowds" methodology, assembling over 500 audio samples sourced from 60 international sample libraries and building the record over approximately one year.
Based in Tokyo. Released on Audiobulb Records.
