Genre is subdivided one after another.

It’s no problem if there’s no center as mass. Actually there’s no center to the Internet.
Everyone is doing as they like and connect to someone if it’s interesting. It’s individual movement. It’s what is called digital nomad.

That’s right!! Please tell us about people who have had an influence on you up to now.

I learned various things from Moichi Kuwahara, a representative of Club King, and he influenced me very much. As Moichi says, ‘NOTE’ itself is a kind of graduation thesis if the editing work of ‘Dictionary’ is a school. Also, I was influenced by an aestheticist named Mitsuhiro Takemura in the way of thinking.

And… this way of enjoying (pointing to turn tables), the way of thinking to enjoy music in one’s own way with two turn tables and a mixer. Or the way of thinking to make sound by sampling, the structure or system as Macintosh… It’s a good education for us. Maybe I’ve influenced the way of thinking of folder and system…. There’re so many things that I’m influenced by.

What are you most interested in now?

DVD. I wish the sound and visual to become united, I don’t know if it will come true though. A new format may be born in the future. It’s interesting to see that people in the music field are actively making DVD. I’ve heard that my favorite, Daft Punk, will release DVD and also I read an interview with Howie B and he said he will release DVD. I wish electronic musicians will be active with such attitudes.

Who are your favorite artists?

Artists from France are interesting now. And Japanese musicians. An independent label named Flower Label is nice. I feel high-quality music is coming from Japan.

How will the contents of next NOTE be?

There’s not so great difference between the next and last issues. The format is completed. But I’m thinking one device in the next NOTE not to be thrown away as garbage. I’m anxious that it might not be received by everyone properly. (laugh)

Have you ever met anyone who is actually using it as a notebook?

Yes. But in fact there’s only a few pages that can be used as a notebook. Sometimes I’m requested to make more pages as a notebook.

I remember that there are dozens of blank pages as a notebook in the pamphlet for Hajime Tachibana’s Application tour (maybe) a few days ago.

Well, there are actually blank pages in it. Maybe NOTE has in it some of the elements of it… Sampling!! Hattori did a sampling of the pamphlet and it led to this (NOTE). There’s no original here. I declare it’s a recycling idea. As it’s written in the zero issue of NOTE, it’s an idea by a designer, “100% Recyclable Idea, 20% Preconsumed Idea”. That’s all. This year’s theme is recycling.

It not only means the recycling of stuff but also the recycling of ideas. Design is a kind of one’s idea. The recycling of the way of thinking as why it was created and why it comes to this kind of media.

It isn’t a poor imitation, is it?

Yes, it adjusts to the idea to meet the needs of the times.

Finally, please give a message to readers.

Do your best in tuning up the pitch. (laugh)
Including all sorts of things, then neutral dash.

NOTE
Editor-in-chief: Masahiro Hattori
Design: Eisaku Ono, Madoka Iwabuchi, Takuya Yamada
Irregular (The third issue will be distributed in August)
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mhattori@pop.bekkoame.ne.jp
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