Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Seijiro Murayama
Toshiya Tsunoda

Snared 60 Cuts

(Skiti, sk04) (Japan) (CD)

  1. Take 1 (1:03)
  2. Take 2 (1:08)
  3. Take 5 (0:42)
  4. Take 4 (0:34)
  5. Take 7 (0:50)
  6. Take 6 (0:45)
  7. Take 13 (3:11)
  8. Take 8 (0:39)
  9. Take 14 (0:50)
  10. Take 10 (0:42)
  11. Take 19 (0:42)
  12. Take 13 (3:13)
  13. Take 20 (0:53)
  14. Take 14 (0:43)
  15. Take 23 (0:44)
  16. Take 15 (0:40)
  17. Take 24 (0:46)
  18. Take 17 (0:42)
  19. Take 26 (0:53)
  20. Take 18 (1:10)
  21. Take 28 (0:43)
  22. Take 19 (0:40)
  23. Take 29 (0:43)
  24. Take 20 (0:41)
  25. Take 32 (0:42)
  26. Take 21 (0:39)
  27. Take 33 (0:45)
  28. Take 26 (0:44)
  29. Take 35 (0:44)
  30. Take 27 (0:39)
  31. Take 36 (0:48)
  32. Take 29 (0:39)
  33. Take 37 (0:41)
  34. Take 32 (0:42)
  35. Take 41 (0:50)
  36. Take 33 (0:41)
  37. Take 43 (0:35)
  38. Take 35 (0:43)
  39. Take 45 (0:42)
  40. Take 37 (0:37)
  41. Take 47 (0:39)
  42. Take 39 (0:38)
  43. Take 52 (0:50)
  44. Take 41 (0:35)
  45. Take 57 (0:44)
  46. Take 42 (0:44)
  47. Take 58 (0:41)
  48. Take 45 (0:38)
  49. Take 60 (0:45)
  50. Take 48 (0:36)
  51. Take 61 (0:40)
  52. Take 49 (0:41)
  53. Take 62 (0:41)
  54. Take 61 (0:38)
  55. Take 65 (1:13)
  56. Take 74 (0:57)
  57. Take 75 (0:39)
  58. Take 79 (0:40)
  59. Take 79 (0:39)
  60. Take 80 (0:21)

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