Seijiro Murayama
Toshiya Tsunoda
(Skiti, sk04) (Japan) (CD)
Recorded in Maioka Park, Yokohama, April 2 and 3, 2008. A pair of microphones was placed inside Seijiro Murayama's snare drum under various conditions: with the drumhead loosened, the rim removed, a heavy stone placed on the drum, the drum hanging from a tree branch, the drum skin cut with a knife, and so on. (The drum was not played.)
All odd tracks except 1 were selected by Seijiro Murayama from the 80 takes on the recording, and all even tracks except 60 were selected by Toshiya Tsunoda.
A 10-second gap was inserted before each track except 1.
Each track except 1 and 60 includes a 5Hz sine wave of differing length (maximum 20 seconds) following the recording (on the left for Tsunoda's selections and on the right for Murayama's).
Photo by Takashi Ikemi
Design by Toshiya Tsunoda and Satoe Kobayashi
Includes liner notes by Toshiya Tsunoda in Japanese and English (translation by Seymour Wright and Takashi Ikemi)
Released in October 2010