Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Hideki Nakazawa

Music Works

The Method Music since 1997 + Sounds for "Silly CG" Animations before 1996

(Naya Records, naya-0003) (Japan) (CD)

The Method Music since 1997

  1. Japanese Syllabic Invention in Three Voices No. 1 [2002] (0:31)
  2. Japanese Syllabic Invention in Three Voices No. 2 [2002] (0:43)
  3. Musical Composition No. 1 Which Consists of 126 Ascending Figures [2002] (2:14)
  4. Musical Composition No. 2 Which Consists of 126 Descending Figures [2002] (2:11)
  5. Musical Composition No. 3 Which Consists of 144 Palindromic Figures [2002] (3:58)
  6. Japanese Syllabic Invention in Two Voices No. 1 [1997] (0:35)
  7. Japanese Syllabic Invention in Two Voices No. 2 [1997] (0:29)
  8. Japanese Syllabic Invention in Two Voices No. 3 [1997] (0:33)
  9. From 1 to 256 [2003-2006] (6:29)
  10. Japanese Syllabic Monophony No. 1 [1999] (2:44)
  11. Japanese Syllabic Monophony No. 2 [2000] (1:50)
  12. Japanese Syllabic Monophony No. 3 [2002] (0:27)
  13. Japanese Syllabic Monophony No. 4 [2002] (0:28)
  14. After Hanon for Thirteen-string-koto in Five Parts No. 1 [2002] (3:46)
  15. After Hanon for Thirteen-string-koto in Five Parts No. 2 [2002] (3:52)
  16. After Hanon for Thirteen-string-koto in Five Parts No. 3 [2002] (3:52)
  17. Japanese Syllabic Canon in Two Voices No. 1 [1997] (0:19)
  18. Japanese Syllabic Canon in Two Voices No. 2 [1997] (0:19)
  19. Japanese Syllabic Canon in Two Voices No. 3 [1997] (0:19)
  20. Japanese Syllabic Canon in Two Voices No. 4 [1997] (0:19)
  21. Song "Order" (Words by Shigeru Matsui) No. 1 [2006] (2:06)
  22. Song "Order" (Words by Shigeru Matsui) No. 2 [2006] (2:06)
  23. Japanese Syllabic Canon in Three Voices No. 1 [1997-1999] (0:21)
  24. Japanese Syllabic Canon in Three Voices No. 2 [1997-1999] (0:15)
  25. Japanese Syllabic Canon in Three Voices No. 3 [1997-1999] (0:23)
  26. Japanese Syllabic Canon in Three Voices No. 4 [1997-1999] (0:15)
  27. Japanese Syllabic Canon in Three Voices No. 5 [1997-1999] (0:51)
  28. Monophony with 768 Musical Tones Each Accompanied by a Grace Note [1998] (4:24)
  29. Numeral Poetry (Decimal Numeral Reciting Poetry for One or Four Readers) No. 1 [1999] (0:28)
  30. Numeral Poetry (Decimal Numeral Reciting Poetry for One or Four Readers) No. 2 [1999] (0:28)
  31. Numeral Poetry (Decimal Numeral Reciting Poetry for One or Four Readers) No. 3 [1999] (0:28)
  32. Numeral Poetry (Decimal Numeral Reciting Poetry for One or Four Readers) No. 4 [1999] (0:27)
  33. Numeral Poetry (Decimal Numeral Reciting Poetry for One or Four Readers) No. 5 [1999] (0:28)

Sounds for "Silly CG" Animations before 1996

  1. Abstract Automatic Animation "Beyond the Tobigeri 1" [1994] (0:47)
  2. Abstract Automatic Animation "Beyond the Tobigeri 2" [1994] (2:44)
  3. Abstract Automatic Animation "Beyond the Tobigeri 3 'Shiritori'" [1995] (1:10)
  4. Abstract Automatic Animation "Beyond the Tobigeri 4 'Form'" [1995] (1:44)
  5. Click Study 001. Clik Multiplying [1995] (0:45)
  6. Click Study 002. Click Sounding [1995] (0:29)
  7. Click Study 003. Tobigeri #5 [1995] (1:23)
  8. Click Study 004. Instruction-01: How to Quit [1995] (0:16)
  9. Click Study 005. Face Ballet #1 [1995] (1:34)
  10. Click Study 006. Have to Click It Each? [1995] (0:51)
  11. Click Study 007. Go beyond the Hills, a Nipple at the Right [1995] (0:24)
  12. Click Study 008. Seeing Mother for 30000 Pixels [1995] (0:37)
  13. Click Study 009. Tobigeri #6 [1995] (1:25)
  14. E Zura Zura [1995] (1:04)
  15. Appearing Painting [1995] (2:03)
  16. Essay on Invisible Functions (Easy Abstraction) [1996] (4:22)

All composed by Hideki Nakazawa

Kiyonori Sokabe: trumpet (3-5)
Yoko Nishi: 13-string koto (14-16)
Tomomi Adachi: voice (6-8, 11, 13, 17-22)
Reisiu Sakai: voice (6-8, 10, 12, 17-20)
Yoshihisa Suzuki: marimba (9, 21, 22), voice (1, 2, 23-27)
Takumi Ikeda: voice (1, 2, 23-27)
Taro Yasuno: voice (1, 2, 23-27)
Yuji Takahashi: piano (28)
Adachi Tomomi Royal Chorus (Tomomi Adachi, Chikako Iwata, Taku Unami, Risa Egawa, Yuji Hirata, Tomoko Fukui, Ayako Fukunaga, Takeshi Furusawa): voices (29-33)
Hideki Nakazawa: mouse (34-49)

Tracks 1, 2, 6-8, 10-13, 17-20, 23-27: Recorded by Tomomi Adachi on July 7 and September 5, 2006
Tracks 3-5, 9, 14-16, 21, 22: Recorded by Ryoji Yanagida on July 25, 2006 and mixed on August 1, 2006 at GOK Sound
Track 28: Recorded live at Casals Hall on April 16, 2002
Tracks 29-33: Recorded by Tomomi Adachi in August 2000
Tracks 34-49: Recorded by Hideki Nakazawa on September 5, 2006
Mastered by Tomomi Adachi
Design by Hideki Nakazawa
Produced by Tomomi Adachi
Includes liner notes by Yuji Takahashi in Japanese, and by Hideki Nakazawa in Japanese (complete notes) and English (condensed notes)

Released in October 2006