Steelpan Improvisations: 2001-2008, by YOSHIO MACHIDA

Steelpan Improvisations: 2001-2008

by YOSHIO MACHIDA

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1.	Dec 26, 2001 CAY, Tokyo 05:05	buy track
2.	Feb 24, 2002 Extrapool, Nijmengen, Holland 05:04	buy track
3.	May 22, 2003 Ausland, Berlin, Germany 05:48	buy track
4.	Aug 16, 2004 "ISEA2004", Slija Ferry, Finland 06:04	buy track
5.	Jun 11, 2005 Loop-line, Tokyo 04:45	buy track
6.	Jul 01, 2006 ICC, Tokyo 05:08	buy track
7.	Aug 27, 2006 Apple Store, Tokyo 08:02	buy track
8.	Oct 06, 2007 Scai The Bathhouse Gallery, Tokyo 04:41	buy track
9.	Sep 28, 2008 Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo 09:08	buy track

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A collection of deft, unassuming and very attractive performances. - The Wire Jun. 2009
Machida goes a long way towards making a compelling case for the instrument. - textura Apr. 2009

Retrospective album compiling his steelpan live recordings in Europe and Japan from 2001 to 2008. Influenced by Indian improvised traditional music, he changed his main instrument gong (used as symbol of light in Asia in Hypernatural) to Steelpan. For his first tour in Europe in 2002, he made original "un-equal temperament" tuned steelpan by himself. It sounds like Gamelan gong. And he performed steelpan with Max/MSP realtime processing for getting drone sound (like tampura in Indian music) from his steelpan sound. After several endeavors for expressing "live" music with complicated and realtime computer processing, he started to play only acoustic steelpan to realize microtparticulation texture that like computer generated, without computer. This album shows the trail.

「研ぎ澄まされた音の流れに目が覚める」　(ミュージック・マガジン2009年6月号)

2001年～2008年、欧州、日本での町田良夫の演奏を集めたレトロスペクティブなアルバム。インド音楽に触発されて始めたという特異なスタート点、ガムラン・サウンドを醸し出す自作スティールパンとコンピュータを組合わせた初期の楽曲、Max/MSPのコンピューター・プロセッシングによって微粒子化されたスティールパンの音風景や、近年、独自のスティールパン配列によるミニマルな即興スタイルに至ったアコースティック・スティールパン演奏まで、青山CAY、ICC、世田谷美術館での収録をはじめ、ドイツ、オランダ、フィンランドでのライブを収録。8年間の即興演奏の変遷を辿る。サティ、イーノ、アルヴォ・ペルト、音響、アンビエントにも通ずる透明な空気感。デジパック仕様。

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released April 5, 2009

[text in the CD]
Big tree covered in ivy as the seasons change, migratory birds in wavering V-formation linear flight, water dropping into a single point eroding a rock, children getting up, babbling and growing and red western sky stained by a slowly setting sun... These examples express a relationship between time and objects (or space). I was interested in the process and a result of time passing and the whole picture consists of accumulated details. It was my starting point and still important for my live performance. However, my approach to music has changed. For expressing this idea by microparticulation and reconstruction of sounds and tunes in time, I used to use self-made steelpan and Max/MSP (computer processing). Microtparticulation is a word I use for "cutting-up" very small sound units with computer. Computer recorded the sound of my steelpan in realtime and cut it up at the same time. Now I use only custom-made acoustic steelpan without electronics to achieve it. This album is made for listening for transitions.
Yoshio Machida Dec. 2008

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月日と共にツタにおおわれた大木、列をなして飛ぶ渡り鳥の群れが作る揺らめくV字、一点に落ちる水滴によって浸食した岩のくぼみ、成長の過程で立ち上がり、しゃべり出し、大きくなっていく子供たち、見たこともない大きな、ゆっくりと沈む太陽が真っ赤に染める西の空・・・時間経過の過程と結果、細部の集積が構成する全体像に興味を持ち、それが私の演奏表現の出発点で今もその重要さは変わらない。しかし音楽的アプローチは変化してきた。自作スティールパンの演奏とMax/MSP(コンピュータ・プロセッシング)による音とフレーズの粒子化／再構築を、今ではオーダーメイドのアコースティック・スティールパンだけでそれを実現させようと試みている。このアルバムはその変遷を辿るためのものだ。
2008年12月　町田良夫

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Amorfon is a borderless/experimental music label founded by a Japanese composer / Steelpan player Yoshio Machida in 2004 in Tokyo. Our aim is cross cultural synergy.

アモルフォンは、2004年に美術家／音楽家、スティールパン奏者町田良夫が設立したボーダーレスな音楽レーベルです。"cross cultural synergy" (異文化間の相乗効果)をテーマに、実験音楽 - 音響系 - エレクトロニカ - ポストロック - ワールド - 現代音楽などのジャンルにまたがる、またはジャンルにあてはめることができないような音楽をフォーカスしています。 ... more

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