Michael Pisaro/Toshiya Tsunoda 'crosshatches' (erst 066-2) This will be perhaps my most favorite CDs from the entire Erstwhile catalog. Every time I listen to it, the music blows me away. Fantastic collaboration of the two extraordinary ta…

The new Erstwhile CD, Andrea Neumann / Bonnie Jones 'green just as I could see' (erst 065) was just released. You can listen to the sound clips here (click 'tracks' on the following page): http://www.erstwhilerecords.com/catalog/065.html

Official release date is February 28. See the details of the CD: http://michaelpisaro.blogspot.com/

Michael Pisaro - fields have ears (6) (gw 007)To be released by the end of February. More details: http://michaelpisaro.blogspot.com/

今年も昨年に引き続き、２月末までアーストワイルのCDとDVDの割引セールを行っています。セール期間中は、下記の割引と特典がありますので、どうぞご利用ください。 ●セール対象は、Erstwhile/ErstLive/ErstSolo/ErstPopのシリーズとなります。シングルCDは1…

1) Michael Pisaro - Hearing Metal 3 (gw 006)1) Jürg Frey / Nick Hennies - Metal, Stone, Skin, Foliage, Air (L’innomable, 2011)3) Michael Pisaro - Hearing Metal 2 (gw 005)4) Michael Pisaro - asleep, street, pipes, tones (gw 004)5) Michael P…

As my year-end project of 2011, I made a visual chart of Michael Pisaro's 'Hearing Metal 3' from his 64-page score. It looks small here, but actually consists of 30 pages of A4 papers. You can see a bigger version here. I made the timetabl…

マイケル・ピサロのレーベル「Gravity Wave」では、12/31までの期間、年末特別セールを行っています。通常14ドルのCDが今月中は割引価格の11ドル、gw 001から006までの全リリース６枚を一括購入する場合は合計60ドルに割引されます。詳しくは、レーベルのサ…

Hearing Metal 2 is a continuous 62-minute piece, consisting of three parts. Part 1 begins with calm nature sounds - field recordings of water (rivers, waves) and birds chirping, softly fading in and out in between humble silences like ephe…

I just listened to the live recording of Radu Malfatti / Taku Unami duo improvisation set from the AMPLIFY festival again. I still think that this might be the best set I have ever seen, listened, and experienced in the whole AMPLIFY histo…

□The best set of AMPLIFY 2011: stonesRadu Malfatti/Taku Unami (improvisation) □The other 10 sets I especially likedBarry Chabala/Dominic Lash/Ben Owen - hinwandeln, augen zu (Michael Pisaro) Graham Lambkin/Vanessa Rossetto Olivia Block sol…

Just listened to the live recording of Radu Malfatti / Taku Unami duo improvisation set from the AMPLIFY festival. I will write about the set more later, but this might be the best set I have ever seen/listened in the whole AMPLIFY history…

In the first long silent day after the busy 15 days of the AMPLIFY festival, I still hear Radu Malfatti's almost inaudible little click sounds on his trombone mute which he made occasionally in his sets, not just in my memory but in my act…

More photos from Gravity Wave festival is here. http://www.flickr.com/photos/13715378@N00/sets/72157627676978020/

9/1 Thursday @ The Stone, NYC 8 pm Antoine Beuger - approcher s'éloigner s'absenter (premiere) preformed by Barry Chabala (guitar) Dominic Lash (contrabass) Ben Owen (electronics)10 pm Michael Pisaro - hinwandeln, augen zu (premiere) prefo…

Barry Chabala (guitar), Ben Owen (electronics), Dominic Lash (contrabass) More photos from the AMPLIFY 1st day are here.

AMPLIFY 2011: stones is starting tonight at The Stone NYC. The first night features Wandelweiser music with premiere performances of Antoine Beuger's and Michael Pisaro's compositions. 9/1 Thursday @ The Stone, NYC8 pm Antoine Beuger - app…

Michael Piraso / Greg Stuart - Hearing Metal 2 and 3 (gw005/006) (now on sale: http://michaelpisaro.blogspot.com/ ) Toshimaru Nakamura - maruto (ErstSolo 002) (now on sale: http://www.erstwhilerecords.com/ ) Taku Unami / Takahiro Kawaguchi…

Michael Pisaro / Greg Stuart - Hearing Metal 2 (gw 005) Michael Pisaro / Greg Stuart - Hearing Metal 3 (gw 006) More details: http://michaelpisaro.blogspot.com/ - Official release date for both discs will be August 16th.Ben Ratliff's previ…

米国の作曲家マイケル・ピサロの個人レーベル〈Gravity Wave〉から本日、次の新譜２作がリリースされました。 □ Michael Pisaro - close constellations and a drum on the ground (gw 003)「close constellations and a drum on the ground」は、マイケル・…

Recently, environmental sounds have started to sound like music to me and I have been trying to figure out why. When we hear the sound of an airplane, the sound automatically tends to evoke a visual image of an airplane (flying through the…

環境音がある時期から音楽として聴こえるようになったのはなぜだろう、とふと思う。たとえば、飛行機の音を聞いた時に、その音にまつわるイメージ（雲間を飛ぶ飛行機の映像など）が自動的に連想されてしまうと、飛行機の音は飛行機の音以外の何物にも聞こえ…

For my 2010 CD top ten list, I was considering ranking Jürg Frey's 'Weites Land, Tiefe Zeit' and Antoine Beuger's 'Keine Fernen Mehr' near the top, but in the end, I decided that my greatest discovery this year was Michael Pisaro's capabil…

I have been particularly fascinated with piano sounds since I was a young child. However, at the same time, I have always felt some sort of tightness in most of the piano performances I have heard in the past. I did not know why I felt tha…

'2 seconds / b minor / wave' is a collaboration CD by the two composers/guitarists Michael Pisaro and Taku Sugimoto who had never worked together before, composed and recorded separately in the summer and autumn of 2010. The CD consists of…

'ein(e) ausführende(r) seiten 218 - 226' is Manfred Werder's composition from 2002, realized by Antoine Beuger's electronic sound and released by Edition Wandelweiser in 2006. The 72-minute piece consists of a very quiet single electronic …

Since I started listening to the music of Wandelweiser composers intensively in the last year, I realized that I have been experiencing some interesting changes in my way of listening to music. Since I started to listen to music actively r…

Edition Wandelweiser から最近出たアントワン・ボイガーの２枚組CD「Keine Fernen Mehr」、シンプルな口笛のみの演奏なのに、耳を釘付けにする何とも言えないパワーがあって、素晴らしいです。（ライナーによると、音量をなるべく低めにして聴くのがお勧め…

Jürg Frey's 320 minute long epic piece 'Weites Land, Tiefe Zeit' (2001-2002) was just released as a series of 8 CDRs from Radu Malfatti's label B-Boim Records. This is electronic music that was composed of extended looped sound materials i…

Over the past few years, as I have become increasingly interested in Wandelweiser music, I have gotten into many discussions about it with various people involved in the scene. Many times, other people have the opinion that Wandelweiser mu…