The second issue of 0g (zero-gauge), Yuzuru Agi’s first paper publication in about a decade. Agi is a music critic and producer, not only highly acclaimed as a visionary in today’s music scene, but also as the editor in chief of the legendary Rock Magazine, which still fascinates many fans today a vehicle of new sensations, featuring all cultural genres next to rock music, regardless of whether hi or low art, such as fashion, comic, modern art, dance, photography and film. He also founded Vanity Records, referred to as the first independent label in Japan.
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In this issue, Agi attempts to reconsider artists such as those of the label Raster-Noton and Mika Vanio from Pan Sonic, both have been active since the 90s, as examples of “Contemporary Modern Music,” coined by Agi himself, and to position them between the contexts of Futurism, Dada, Structuralism, electronic music, etc. and recent music experiments by the up and coming production project Emptyset and the budding label Von, among others.
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It features nearly 100 disks and Agi accomplished the whole editing and writing all alone in the last three weeks, before it was released at the event called “De/construct: Updating Modernism,” presented by 0g and IDEA.
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While Issue #1 has a two-dimensional structure, so to speak, where all the spreads are gatefold, allowing a variety of freestyle layouts on the pages, Issue #2, in complete contrast, is given a sort of three-dimensional volumes, where all the contents are put into specific areas divided within a rigid format.
All the pages of this issue are separate cards; each introduces a single item with a large referential plate and a short text with good margins. This simple format makes it easier and freer for the reader to develop their own editing.
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Enclosed in a semi-reflective OPP pouch.
All the 200 copies of its initial print and the first 100 copies of its second print accompanied by a fluorescent plexiglas bookmarker. 
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[Contents]
- ‘Updating Modernism’ Deconstructivist: Raster-Noton
disk review : 1-8
- ‘Updating Modernism’ Deconstructivist: Emptyset
disk review : 9-37
- ‘Updating Modernism’ Deconstructivist: Contemporary Modern Music
disk review : 38-88
- industrial music records 11-20
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0g is a zine-style irregular publication. Issue #2 is the second part of the primary period up to Issue #4. All the issues of 0g has no cover, an element that usually completes a book, in order to show that each issue is just a fragment of an uncompleted whole. Issue #4, the last issue of the primary period, will be accompanied by a binder to bundle the first four issues.
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Referring to Agi’s editing methodology of detecting changes of ever-shifting situations and adding, deleting or combining pieces of information responding to it, this issue employs separate pages and a primitive paper fastener as a system that encourages the reader’s act of re-editing.
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The whole process of its binding and printing is managed manually with our in-house techniques.
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297mm x 182mm / 123p in black and white / with A2 poster / in a semi-reflective OPP pouch
The first edition and the second edition are accompanied with a fluorescent plexiglas bookmarker
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First edition of 200 copies
Second edition of 100 copies
Third edition of 100 copies
Price: 2,778 yen
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Designed by Shin Akiyama + Takashi Honda
Plexiglas bookmarker made by Esuky Pla
Body printed and bound by chiku chiku laboratory
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©2013 Yuzuru Agi
All rights reserved.
Printed and bound in Japan

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