async–drowning is a listening room created by Shiro Takatani for Sakamoto's album, async.

Viewers are surrounded by sound from all directions as they enter a room that contains six 5.1-channel high-performance speakers that play music from async. On the walls are eight flat-screen monitors placed vertically, showing videos by Takatani, programmed to produce images in real-time.
The videos by Takatani use footage of various objects, such as Sakamoto’s piano, books, and percussion instruments from his New York studio, and potted plants on his balcony. The eight monitors create one landscape together, and the images appearing in the monitors gradually change over time, starting from either the far left or right. Like weaving together a fabric, images are created out of countless numbers of thin, horizontal lines that convert into new images one pixel at a time as if being slowly scanned. Once an eight-panel image is complete, the image is then reverted back into horizontal lines one pixel at a time until, eventually, all traces of the image are decomposed back into countless lines that stretch out like layers of sediment. Once horizontal lines cover all of the screens, they begin transforming into the next image. Takatani's images are not synchronized to the sounds of the album but they change their expressions moment by moment, like the ebb and flow of the tide, and visually insist on its own axis of time that runs parallel to the sounds of the album.