Entries from 2010-12-01 to 1 month
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…
先日、ある欧米の即興演奏家と話していた時に、その演奏家が「即興演奏には柔軟性と自由さがあるが、Wandelweiser派の音楽はリジッド（堅苦しく窮屈）だ」という意見を述べた。それを聞いた時、「いや、私はそうは思いませんよ」と即座に反論したのだけど、…
