Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Otomo Yoshihide

Ensembles 2010--Resonance: Documentation

(Art Tower Mito) (Japan) (DVD)

DVD: NTSC, region free, total time: 90:44

Video Documentation

  1. Ensembles 2010 Secret Live
    Peformed by Otomo Yoshihide and Ko Ishikawa at the precincts of Mito-Hachimangu Shrine, September 26, 2010

  2. Ensembles Parade 2010
    Performed by Cloudy Strings, Coco Rococo, Courage, Joe-banjo Jug Band, Hamelns, Kucchane, Metaphysical Textiles, Mito Kodomo no Gekijyo Yuru-yuru Gakudan, and Oba-chan Boys, Piacere, Sonten, Tail'z, Team227, Team Kawanobe, The Golden Poodles, Viento Azul with FC Mito Crazy, Wawon, and Yamaneko at the premises of Art Tower Mito, October 30, 2010
    Organized by MeToo Promotion Studio, Mito Arts Foundation, and Mito Chamber of Commerce and Industry

  3. Exhibition--Otomo Yoshihide, "Ensembles 2010: Resonance"
    Held at Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, November 30, 2010-January 16, 2011
    General direction and music composition: Otomo Yoshihide
    Space design: Hiroshi Kikuchi and Satoko Taniguchi
    System control: Kanta Horio and Takayuki Ito
    Lighting design: Masayoshi Takada
    Turntable readjustment: Makoto Hirabayashi
    Room 1
    Turntable and instrument arrangement: Aoyama Yasutomo
    Wire device production: Kanta Horio
    Piano and percussion instrument device production: Yuko Mohri
    Room 2
    Turntable arrangement: Aoyama Yasutomo
    Room 3
    Piano arrangement: Otomo Yoshihide and Aoyama Yasutomo
    Piano dismantle: Yumi Osaka
    Piano wire device production: Kanta Horio
    Room 4
    CD-player work production: Gotou Hidekado "Without Your Favorite Things" (2010)
    Turntable arrangement: Aoyama Yasutomo
    Room 5
    Turntable and radio arrangement: Aoyama Yasutomo
    Wire device production: Kanta Horio
    Piano and percussion instrument device production, and cable arrangement: Yuko Mohri
    Piano performance: Eto Naoko
    Room 6
    Audio equipment remodeling: Yoshiaki Kondo
    Lighting: Hiroshi Kikuchi
    Room 7
    Planning and visual composition: Nakazaki Tohru
    Material handicraft: "Ensembles Workshop" members
    Cascade, Plaza
    Planning and visual composition: Katsunobu Yaguchi
    Organizers: Mito Arts Foundation and MeToo Promotion Studio

  4. Ensembles Festival
    Performed by Otomo Yoshihide, Seiichi Yamamoto, Kahimi Karie, Tenniscoats, Tavito Nanao, Tetsuya Umeda, Tatsuhisa Yamamoto, Motoki Kobayashi, Duny's Coke, and Yui Saito at Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, November 28, 2010

  5. Related Exhibitions--Kiwamari Ensembles
    Held at Kiwamari-so, Mito, November 27, 2010-January 16, 2011
    Gotou Hidekado, "It Moves" (2010)
    Otomo Yoshihide and Nakazaki Tohru, "Without Records Duo" (2010)
    Otomo Yoshihide and Yohei Terakado, "Key Hole Room" (2010)
    Fuyumi Abe, "A Crowd" (2010)

  6. Public Projects--A Town with Sounds
    Kenji Shiratori, "Sounds-to-be-moments: Cityscapes that echo within unseeing eyes," held at three stores in Mito: Shiratori Massage, Trattoria Blackbird, and Kimuraya, November 30, 2010-January 16, 2011 (Recording and sound mix by Hirokazu Kato)
    Shogi, "One-day Street Improvised Performance Project," in front of Kurihara Photo Studio, December 12, 2010
    Lake Michigan and Karaburi-sawagi, "Oto," at Cafe Pico, December 18, 2010
    2U, "Not--Nicely Out of Temperament: My Favorite Sound," at Minerva, December 11 and 19, 2010 and January 15 and 16, 2011

  7. Workshop--Let's Play with Sounds
    Held with guest instructor Rii Numata in the Conference Room of Taisei Girls' High School, Mito, December 18, 2010

  8. Two Special Concerts--The Otoasobi Projects & Double Orchestra
    Performed by Otomo Yoshihide, Akira Sakata, Itoken, Masahiro Uemura, Sachiko M, Pika, The Otoasobi Project, and 75 participants from the public at Concert Hall ATM, Art Tower Mito, January 9, 2011

  9. Improvised Rubber Boots Performance--Otomo Yoshihide vs. Katsunobu Yaguchi
    Performed by Otomo Yoshihide and Katsunobu Yaguchi at Cascade, Art Tower Mito, January 15, 2011

  10. Ensembles 2010--Closing Live
    Performed by Otomo Yoshihide, Ko Ishikawa, Ami Yoshida, Kanta Horio, and Sachiko M at Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, January 16, 2011

Video documentation
Camera: Hikaru Fujii, Shinya Aoyama, Yuji Kawadai, Akira Hasegawa, and Keisuke Aso
Recording: Hikaru Fujii, Shinya Aoyama, and Yuji Kawadai
Additional recording: Hiromi Mizoguchi (aka Nancy)
Sound mix: Hikaru Fujii
Sound mix of the exhibition chapter: Otomo Yoshihide and Hikaru Fujii
Edit: Hikaru Fujii
English translation: Naoki Matsuyama and Yuu Takehisa
Curatorial assistance: Eri Koizumi
Curation: Yuu Takehisa
Direction: Hikaru Fujii
Supervision: Otomo Yoshihide
Photography: Motoyuki Shitamichi
Graphic design: Kensaku Kato and Ena Nakamura

Sleeve (31.6 cm x 25 cm) includes a biography of Otomo Yoshihide and a brief explanation of Ensembles in Japanese and English, and color photos by Takeshi Yamagishi and Motoyuki Shitamichi.
Includes an insert (77 cm x 51.5 cm) with color photos by Motoyuki Shitamichi and liner notes by Otomo Yoshihide, Yuu Takehisa, Aoyama Yasutomo, Masayoshi Takada, Gotou Hidekado, Kanta Horio, Yoshinori Koutaka, Hiroshi Kikuchi, Yoshiaki Kondo, Katsunobu Yaguchi, Yuko Mohri, Nana Tago, Yohei Terakado, and Nakazaki Tohru in Japanese and English (English translation by Darryl Jingwen Wee and Naoki Matsuyama)

Released in March 2011