Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Otomo Yoshihide

The Multiple Otomo Project

(Asphodel, ASP 3007) (U.S.) (DVD + CD)

DVD: Multiple Otomo
(NTSC, region free)

  1. Burner (4:10)
  2. Vinyles (4:28)
  3. Plucks (2:48)
  4. Yellow Record (2:53)
  5. Quadrant (4:38)
  6. Uncoiled (1:10)
  7. Needles (0:51)
  8. Frets (2:41)
  9. Tone Generator (2:48)
  10. Spiral (1:27)
  11. Pulse (2:21)
  12. Clamps (0:38)
  13. Luminous (4:37)
  14. Dispenser (1:07)
  15. Taped Records (1:39)
  16. Rotations (3:32)
  17. Colored Records (1:31)
  18. Corronsion (1:52)
  19. Brush & Washers (0:46)
  20. Red Record (4:00)
  21. Tinfoil (2:48)
  22. Layered (3:10)
  23. Clip & Spiral (0:42)
  24. Hands (2:42)
  25. Jagged (1:31)
  26. Rasps (3:43)
  27. Crackles (1:20)
  28. Color Liquid (2:28)
  29. Blue Feedback (1:26)
  30. Turntable Graveyard (3:35)

CD: Monochrome Otomo

  1. Generator and Records (3:52)
  2. Turntable Feedback I (7:57)
  3. Handmade Generator (1:32)
  4. Records I (1:55)
  5. Surface and Sinewave (5:15)
  6. Cardboard Chip Needle (1:42)
  7. Turntable Feedback II (3:40)
  8. Prepared Guitar (6:26)
  9. Cut Records (2:43)
  10. Coins (1:58)
  11. Violin Bow with Handmade Needle (7:34)
  12. Test Tone Records (3:31)
  13. Records II (4:00)
  14. Contact Mic (1:26)
  15. Needles (3:09)
  16. Records III (1:44)
  17. Guitar and Rasps (3:41)
  18. Alloy (2:54)

Performed by Otomo Yoshihide
Video by Masako Tanaka, Tim Digulla, and Michelle Silva
Editing, composition, and adjustment: Masako Tanaka
DP and cinematography: Michelle Silva and Tim Digulla
Aesthetic director: Otomo Yoshihide
Audio mastering: Mixture 151
Audio CD mixing: Xopher Davidson and Otomo Yoshihide
Video and audio recorded at Michelle Silva's Studio, Mission, San Francisco, 2003; Obscura Digital, San Francisco, 2004; and Asphodel Studios, San Francisco, 2005
Recording engineer: Aloveiz Y.J. Heredic
Graphic design by Tim Digulla and Christopher Musgrave, with Masako Tanaka
Photos by Mayumi Ota and Tim Digulla

Released in March 2007