ambient music for sauna
Sauna and music are inseparably bound up with each other.
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Sauna Musician.
An artist making music for sauna, with sauna relaxation spaces as the main stage for live performance. Centered on synthesizer improvisation, AKOY releases floating works that distill the sauna experience — and now builds the synthesizer apps used to perform them.
A weeknight evening in Ikegami, Tokyo — music, light and scent, for slowing down.
- An improvised session of synthesizers and dance -
A synthesizer app for iPhone and iPad, and the instrument AKOY actually performs with. Rather than sequencing notes by hand, three engines (ARP A / ARP B / DRUMS) generate the music themselves, and you steer them with chord progressions and scales — an instrument for shaping a flow rather than playing one.
Version 2 is a full native rewrite. With AUv3 support it runs alongside your other music apps inside a host, and it can now be played directly from a MIDI keyboard.
Every track recorded live and improvised with a single synthesizer and a looper. Nine pieces on the stillness of a frozen lake — and the life still moving beneath it.
AKOY's debut album. Water, stone, steam, forest — seven pieces holding the raw experience of sauna.
All releases are available on the major streaming services.