TKY:IS Edition

Finding beauty in contemporary life.
Perhaps it is time to ask what beauty is, rather than what Art is.
Curated by Takuyo Ishii

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Never really thought about it, but Japanese sorta looks like a map already. All grids and blocks. We just see words.

—— Toranomon 2-chome, Tokyo

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Looked kinda nice, somehow.

—— Omori, Tokyo

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TKY:IS CURATES / MUSIC 006 (IDM)

🎧“CAM_00Y_9402-04-18T0203Z_ATTEMPTED_TO_ACT_HAPPY_LOGGED_AS_MASKING” by Tenant 7 (2026)

TENANT_7 is a fictional surveillance system. Track titles are its logs. Someone tried to look happy. The camera saw through it.

https://t.co/DseCousHdQ

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Forms of light, emerging in silence.

— Tokyo, Japan
#REDCLIFF

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TKY:IS CURATES / MUSIC 005 (Fusion)

🎧 “Roodis Tones” by Michael Landau (1990, Los Angeles, US)

No idea what lies ahead. Moving forward alone through the vast, shadowy wilderness — lonely, yet somehow romantic. The harmonic progression itself seems to embody that feeling.

https://t.co/oWNMXxJBqp

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TKY:IS CURATES / MUSIC 004 (IDM)

🎧 “Matrixgone” by Samplequence (2026, Texas, US)

A crystalline matrix, splintering and scattering light.

https://t.co/Uan6JLQisu

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TKY:IS CURATES / MUSIC 003 (IDM)

🎧 “Coil” by VPN (2026, Florida, US)

“Sonido local.” Less glare, more humidity — what I heard was a Florida rich in mystery and mood.

https://t.co/pQ4JWZ8hL7

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Proper little tune, this.

🎧 Harry Hayes x Kelbin – Missu2

https://t.co/8kW6IW70UT

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TKY:IS CURATES / MUSIC 002 (IDM)

🎧 “Cascade (Edit)” by Kelbin (2026, Venice, IT)

A young electronic musician out of Venice. Fresh, bright, full of joy. You can tell he’s properly into making music.

https://t.co/IwUe0RZ0Ao

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📷 Just Asakusa being Asakusa.

—— Asakusa, Tokyo.

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TKY:IS CURATES / DESIGN 003 (Advertising)

▱ “Spinning Vegetables / Asparagus” — Kewpie Corporation (TV Commercial, 1985, JP)

Kewpie is a well-known Japanese food company. Their TV commercials from this era were genuinely radical. Music by Joji Yuasa.

https://t.co/DgPIMFjzIx

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TKY:IS CURATES / MUSIC 001 (IDM)

🎧 “ATTENTION TOKYO” by Sketch Show (2003, JP)

2003. When so much glitch had become an end in itself — little more than noise — this was already something more: musically rich, stripped back, nothing spare.

https://t.co/7AiygPz0l5

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TKY:IS CURATES / DESIGN 002 (Web)

▱ "EXAT" (Website) — Web Design by Studio Size (Zagreb, HR)

A typeface becomes an interface. Modernist geometry, set in motion.
#WebDesign #Typography

https://t.co/X9v5jHWjyz

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TKY:IS CURATES / DESIGN 001

▱ Suono — By Tom Fereday (Industrial Designer, AU)

A Bluetooth speaker in cast aluminium. Almost no visual noise. Quiet before it even makes a sound.

Found via LEIBAL, a minimal design publication based in NYC.

https://t.co/cvVcRY9qKm

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🎧 “ixzl” by Michael Valentine West (2025)

sig///sig—nal? / melo_melo—dy.exe / GLITCH///GLITCH / fra[ct]ure / sk_sk_skip > sl_sl_slip > splin///ter / re:re:re:re: / ...still? / flo—wing

https://t.co/ZfV2gfw9Jp

#IDM

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🎧 “ergem” by generated.generation (2026)

A producer with roots in Moscow’s electronic scene under the sin:it:sin alias. Shifting textures let the glitches unfold into ever-changing patterns.

https://t.co/qBJU2obguE

#IDM

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Hirokazu Hiraishi (1948–, JP) — I. 〈WAVE〉 from 《Time Turning》 (1987-1993)

Short loops, constantly shifting. All in sine waves. Decades ago, I first heard this sleek sound on FM radio in a shabby Tokyo apartment.

https://t.co/88FoUwm2A0

#IDM — why not?

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Tokyo is still being made.

Landfill. Tokyo, not quite Tokyo yet. Maybe one day, someone will call this place home.

— Central Breakwater Outer Landfill Site, Tokyo.
#中央防波堤外側埋立地