{"id":356854,"date":"2026-07-09T19:10:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/ambient-music\/after-the-silence-with-christian-fennesz-by-bajune-tobeta-stationary-travels\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T19:10:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:10:46","slug":"after-the-silence-with-christian-fennesz-by-bajune-tobeta-stationary-travels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=356854","title":{"rendered":"After the Silence (with Christian Fennesz) by Bajune Tobeta \u2013 Stationary Travels"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Bajune Tobeta<\/strong> is a Japanese composer, producer, and pianist who has developed a genre-crossing compositional practice spanning contemporary classical, ambient electronics, & Brazilian music and which is rooted in the question of how sound shapes the emotional and physiological states of the human body. A prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of Ryuichi Sakamoto <\/strong>and contracted artist at Sakamoto\u2019s Tokyo production house LLP 10\u00b0C, Tobeta has produced a widely appreciated body of work over the years including music for games and films as well as collaborations with major figures across all the genres he intersects.<\/p>\n

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His newest work takes inspiration from Haruki Murakami\u2019s novel Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World<\/em> and its contrasting interwoven narratives depicting the dense sonic life of contemporary Tokyo and the walled, silent realm of the inner mind. With these themes in mind, Tobeta conceptualizes a musical counterpart in the form of an anechoic chamber: a space that strips away external sound to reveal what lies within. Across the five tracks it comprises, Anechoic<\/em><\/strong> draws on elements of contemporary classical composition, lo-fi electronics, and piano to explore the space between sound and silence.<\/p>\n

The centerpiece of the album and first single to be released, \u201cAfter the Silence,\u201d is a collaboration with Austrian musician Christian Fennesz<\/strong>, an artist with whom Tobeta shares a deep connection through their work with Sakamoto. Built from one of Tobeta\u2019s original piano works, the piece evolved through an exchange of sounds between the two artists based in Tokyo and Vienna respectively. According to Tobeta, the title points to \u201cwhat emerges in the space after silence\u201d, a question he sees as taking on new resonance since Sakamoto\u2019s passing. It is a mesmerizing and immersive piece of music as you can here for yourself in this premiere ahead of its release tomorrow. <\/p>\n

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