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2025.06.25 WED 1PM, 4PM, 8PM (수요일 오후 1시, 4시, 8시)

*정식 오픈 전, 지금은 Tilt를 탐색하는 시간입니다. 이번 주간은 자유롭게 들러주셔도 좋습니다.

12k : How to Listen to Quiet Sounds
조용한 소리를 듣는 법

교토 여행 중의 일이었습니다.

익숙한 것들에서 조금 벗어나고 싶었던 시기였고, 조용한 동네의 서점 안, 발걸음과 책장이 넘겨지는 소리 사이로 아주 작은 음악이 흘렀습니다. 귀를 스치듯 지나가다가, 문득 다시 고개를 돌리게 만드는 소리. 그 순간 들려오던 건 12k 레이블의 음악이었습니다.

그들의 음악은 언제나 그렇습니다. 거의 들리지 않을 만큼 작지만, 이상하리만큼 정확하게 들려옵니다.

지금의 일상은 빠르고 또렷한 자극들로 가득합니다.

특히 서울처럼 큰 도시에 산다는 건, 작고 조용한 소리에 머무르기 위해 더 많은 감각이 필요하다는 뜻이기도 합니다.

이번 플레이리스트는 12k의 음악으로 구성된, 작고 고요한 흐름에 천천히 귀를 기울일수 있는 시간입니다.

1997년, 사운드 아티스트 테일러 듀프리(Taylor Deupree)가 설립한 12k는 작고 섬세한 사운드의 가능성을 집요하게 탐색해온 전자음악 레이블입니다.

그들의 음악은 종종 ‘앰비언트’로 분류되지만, 실제로는 음과 침묵, 기계의 떨림, 녹음기의 잡음 같은 미세한 요소들을 느슨한 흐름 속에 조용히 놓습니다.

12k는 멈추지 않으면 들을 수 없는 소리들, 불완전한 루프, 손상된 기록, 부유하는 리듬으로 구성되어 있습니다. 명확하지 않아도 쉽게 사라지지 않는 감각들입니다.

이 음악들엔 뚜렷한 기승전결도, 분명한 의미도 없지만, 잠시 멈춰 귀를 기울이면, 내면은 조금 또렷해지고 바깥의 소음은 멀어집니다.

익숙한 것들에서 잠시 멀어지고 싶은 마음은, 어쩌면 이런 소리를 통해 조금씩 회복될 수 있습니다.

그렇게, 다른 감각이 조용히 깨어납니다

1. Shuttle358 - Frame [2000] 
2. Minamo - Tone [2005] 
3. Federico Durand - El jardín encantado (The enchanted garden) [2016] 
4. moskitoo - Shaggy [2007] 
5. Fourcolor - Bleach Black [2002] 
6. Sogar - blun [2004] 
7. Ghislain Poirier - Il n’y a pas de Sud... [2001] 
8. Giuseppe Ielasi - 2 [2010] 
9. Ryuichi Sakamoto & Taylor Deupree - Ghost Road [2013] 
10. Illuha - Structures Based on the Plasticity of Sphere Surface Tension [2014] 
11. Machinefabriek - Andermans Thuis [2008]
 
12k: How to Listen to Quiet Sounds
 
It happened on a trip to Kyoto.
 
It was a time when I wanted to step away from the familiar. Inside a bookstore in a quiet neighborhood, amidst the sounds of footsteps and pages turning, the faintest music was drifting through the air. It was a sound you almost miss, one that just brushes past your ear, but then makes you turn your head. The music I heard in that moment was from the label 12k.
 
Their music is always like that. It's so quiet it's almost inaudible, yet it feels impossibly clear.
 
Our daily lives are now filled with loud and fast stimuli. Living in a large city like Seoul means it requires a more focused sense to linger on small, quiet sounds.
 
This playlist, composed entirely of music from 12k, is an invitation to slow down and lend your ear to a quiet, delicate current of sound.
 
Founded in 1997 by sound artist Taylor Deupree, 12k is an electronic music label that has been relentlessly dedicated to exploring the possibilities of small, detailed sounds. While their music is often classified as 'ambient,' it's more about gently placing microscopic elements—a note and its ensuing silence, the hum of machinery, the hiss of a recorder—within a loose, quiet flow.
 
12k is made of sounds that can only be heard in stillness, of imperfect loops, degraded recordings, and drifting rhythms. These are subtle, yet lingering sensations.
 
This music has no distinct narrative arc or obvious meaning. But if you pause for a moment to listen, your inner world becomes a little clearer, and the noise of the outside world fades away.
 
The desire to step away from the familiar, even for a moment, can perhaps find solace in these sounds.
 
And just like that, a different kind of awareness quietly awakens.