Label: Fluid Audio

125部にて既に廃盤、素晴らしい装丁です!!世界最大の地図作成機関"英国陸地測量部"が発行したオリジナルのヴィンテージ地図がパッケージに使用されています!!当店レーベルからボックスセットをリリースしている、コペンハーゲンの音楽家兼コラージュアーティストojeRum。カフカの小説『城』に登場する助手に因んで名付けられた[arthur & jeremias]をタイトルに、一定のパルス音を軸に構成した30分間の音響アンビエント作。一聴すると抑制の効いたミニマルな内容ですが、旋律の断片が繰り返されやがてゆっくりと消えていく、反復そのものが主となっていく面白い作品。本作、兎に角パッケージのデザインが素晴らしく、氏のコラージュ作品によるポストカード13枚、ヴィンテージのファウンド・フォト、35mmネガフィルム、カラースライド、印刷物が、ヴィンテージ地図に差し込まれる様に封入されています。



Each physical copy is assembled inside an original vintage Ordnance Survey map of Great Britain from the 1940s–1950s — the same one-inch maps once used by land surveyors to measure and navigate the landscape.

Inside the folded map is a small archive of images and fragments:

• CD
• 13 postcard-size prints featuring my collage works
• one or two vintage found photographs
• a 35mm photographic negative
• a 35mm colour slide (mounted transparency)
• a printed insert attached to a strip of 35mm negative film

A steady pulse approaching something that never arrives.

Named after the assistants in Kafka’s The Castle,
arthur & jeremias unfolds as a 30-minute electronic composition built around a steady pulse.

Meaning slowly erodes through repetition until repetition itself becomes structure. Like K., the eternal land surveyor, the music advances endlessly — approaching the Castle without ever reaching it.

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At first the music appears simple — restrained, almost minimal — but gradually reveals a quiet internal complexity. Melodic fragments emerge, repeat, and slowly dissolve again. Meaning erodes through repetition until repetition itself becomes structure.

The piece moves forward without ever truly arriving. It advances, circles, and continues — like K., the eternal land surveyor in Kafka’s The Castle, endlessly approaching the Castle without reaching it.

What initially feels melancholic is not sorrowful, but unresolved: a suspended state between movement and stillness.

The music unfolds less like a narrative and more like a process — something that continues rather than concludes.

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The maps promise orientation, but like K.’s survey, the destination never arrives.