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…

ウィーンのアマン・スタジオでのラドゥ・マルファッティとキース・ロウの３日間録音セッション、本日無事終了しました。音楽観のかけ離れた２人の初顔合わせ、果たしてうまくいくのかどうか不安もありましたが、結果は意外なほどに素晴らしいセッションとな…

At Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, NJ-based guitarist Barry Chabala presented 'An Evening of Pisaro', performing three of Michael Pisaro's compositions: 'appearance (2)', 'E lá fora' and 'Ascending Series (6)', with Travis Just (clarinet/m…

At St. Mark's Church in the East Village of NYC, UK bassist Dominic Lash and a New York-based duo of Ben Owen and Barry Chabala performed two pieces by Wandelweiser composer Antoine Beuger in a concert organized by the Incubator Arts Proje…

- Somewhere far distant from this loud world, where trees breathe silently.In our daily life filled with many excessive noises, it is often difficult to find pure states of silence and calmness. Various mixed sounds and images appear one a…

ここで紹介してきたマイケル・ピサロの作品は、こちらのErstDistで、ほぼ全作品（下記のリスト）を取り扱っています。日本への送料は、CD１枚が送料７ドル、CD２枚が送料８ドルくらいです。（パッケージが紙かプラスティックケースか、シングルCDか２枚組CD…

Michael Pisaro's 2007 composition 'A wave and waves', performed and recorded by percussionist Greg Stuart, is soon to be released on a CD from the Cathnor label. 'A wave and waves' was composed for one hundred percussion instruments (or on…

Michael Pisaro's 'Unter Eichen', composed for electric guitar in 2003, was performed and recorded by Barry Chabala on CD in 2009. With Austrian poet Georg Trakl's poem 'Untergang (Sinking)' in the score, the structure of the piece is divid…

After I listened to some of Michael Pisaro's music, I noticed that my way of listening to environmental sound has completely changed without knowing. I began to notice that each environmental noise contains a subtle frequency similar to a …

When I listened to Michael Pisaro and Greg Stuart's new CD 'July Mountain' early this month, I was completely overwhelmed by the incredible power of the music - I couldn't recover from the strong impact for a couple of days after that. It …

Michael Pisaro - Poetry and MusicMusic and poetry are often closely connected in Michael Pisaro’s compositions. As a composer who has also worked on poetry translation, Pisaro tried to translate poems into music in this series. What does '…

"Harmony Series 11 - 16" (2004-2006) is a realization of nine pieces from Michael Pisaro's series of 34 pieces, performed by seven musicians including Pisaro. The score to each of the pieces on this CD contains one poem each from six poets…

'black, white, red, green, blue (voyelles) (wm17)' is Michael Pisaro and Barry Chabala's new cassette tape. Side A is Barry Chabala's solo electric guitar playing Pisaro's score "black, white, red, green, blue", which was composed in 2004,…

In the last several years, I became more and more interested in just sitting in silence rather than listening to some music. It has been getting harder and harder for me to bear most music, and I preferred instead to leave myself in a calm…

'an unrhymed chord' was composed in 2003. This double-CD from Edition Wandelweiser contains two different versions of the piece, both recorded in 2007. Pisaro's score for this piece is as below. For any number of performers Sixty-five minu…

'Hearing Metal 1' consists of three pieces from Michael Pisaro, performed in 2008 and 2009. The instrument used here is a tam-tam, a large oval-shape metal percussion similar to a Chinese gong, polished into smooth gold. According to Pisar…

The source materials here are field recordings made in the greater Los Angeles area from October 2006 to February 2007. Just as with the previous sets of 'Transparent City - Volumes 1 and 2', each track consists of ten minutes of material …

The source materials of these works are field recordings made in the greater Los Angeles area from December 2004 to August 2006. Sine tones and mixing were added to them at Pisaro’s home studio later. Each track consists of ten minutes lon…

While snow was piling up high silently outside, in February 2010, I have been listening to Michael Pisaro and Barry Chabala's new cassette tape work "black, white, red, green, blue," and Pisaro's two CDs from Edition Wandelweiser, "Hearing…

１月30日にブルックリンの〈fotofono〉で、マイケル・ピサロ（写真右）とバリー・チャバラ（写真左）のデュオライブを観てきました。彼らの新譜「black, white, red, green, blue」のカセットテープ・リリースライブということで、２台のエレキギターのため…