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AYAMIINOKAWA
Saxophonist.
Kyoto-born · Brussels-based
A saxophone carries breath.
Even as its sound transforms into noise, traces of the body remain.
Featured collaboration · Sonic Architecture Installation No. 2
ANGEL DOWN:
THE GAFF
Cam Lasky, Ayami Inokawa · KWAIOTO · 2026
The fallen angel has breath.
Its presence begins in the body.
In the second movement of ANGEL DOWN, developed from Daniel Kraus’s novel, Ayami Inokawa is a co-creator. Through saxophone and effects, she embodies the story’s fallen angel: a presence whose breath, friction, and noise enter Cam Lasky’s electronic structures and generative images.
The saxophone carries the physical conditions of that encounter. Pressure, resistance, and the duration of a breath remain audible as its sound moves beyond the instrument.
Four compositions appear in two tellings: four Original Mixes and four Ayami Inokawa ReTold versions. Her composition and saxophone are central to the title track, The Gaff; the ReTold versions extend the collaboration across the complete work.
Ayami Inokawa
Co-creation, composition, saxophone, and sound exploration through effects.
Cam Lasky
Electronic composition, sound production, generative moving images, system development, and installation design.
Co-creation, composition, saxophone, and sound exploration through effects.
Cam Lasky
Electronic composition, sound production, generative moving images, system development, and installation design.
Composition and saxophone by Ayami Inokawa.
Electronic production and generative visuals by Cam Lasky.
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Breath and the body
The body remains in the sound.
A saxophone carries breath. It carries a body: the person breathing into the instrument. Even as its sound passes through effects and transforms into noise, traces of that body remain.
In Ayami Inokawa’s collaboration with Cam Lasky, breath, friction, and noise give sound a physical presence. A human origin remains audible within a sound travelling far beyond the instrument.
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Across music and performance.
Ayami Inokawa is a Kyoto-born saxophonist based in Brussels. She trained in Japan and France and studied chamber music at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Lyon.
Rooted in contemporary music, her practice spans performance, staging, electronic music, dance, and visual arts. She also performs with Ensemble Bloc.
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