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“Some questions are better as static,” she says.

But the -146 and -551 fragments represent a shift. The former is guttural, subsonic—you feel it in your sternum before you hear it. The latter is almost beautiful: a lonely, morse-like code that was never meant to be decoded. She refuses to reveal what, or who, was on the other end of the cable. i--- Caribbean -042816-146- -042816-551- Yui Nishikawa

Her breakout work, 042816 , was a 44-minute composition made entirely from the hum of air conditioners in Port of Spain’s embassy district. Critics called it “oppressively political.” Nishikawa called it “air conditioning.” “Some questions are better as static,” she says

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Caribbean Basin / Archive Ref: 042816-146 / 042816-551 “Some questions are better as static

For Yui Nishikawa, that is the answer.