Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Dumb Type

S/N

(Les Disques du Soleil et de l'Acier, C-DSA 54056) (France) (CD)

  1. Counter-Invention (10:05)
    Based on the soundtrack for the 1993 performance "S/N"

  2. Silence Fiction (4:22)
    Based on the soundtrack for the 1988 performance "Pleasure Life"

  3. Water (2:34)
    Based on the soundtrack for the 1987 performance "036-Pleasure Life"

  4. Vacant (4:01)
    Based on the soundtrack for the 1992 performance "The Enigma of the Late Afternoon"

  5. Trans-Limit (3:36)
    Based on the soundtrack for the 1993 performance "S/N"

  6. Love/Sex (7:34)
    Based on the soundtrack for the 1986 performance "Plan for Sleep"

  7. White Out (5:11)
    Originally written for "S/N," 1992

  8. Pier 21 (4:25)
    Based on the soundtrack for the 1987 performance "036-Pleasure Life"

  9. Picnic (5:18)
    Based on the soundtrack for the 1988 performance "Pleasure Life"

  10. Passport Control (9:35)
    Based on the soundtrack for the 1990 performance "pH 1990"

Composed and performed by Toru Yamanaka and Teiji Furuhashi

Produced by Ryoji Ikeda
Recorded by Toru Yamanaka and Ryoji Ikeda
Mixed by Toru Yamanaka, Teiji Furuhashi, and Ryoji Ikeda
Recorded and mixed at Studio AA, PLATE #90, cci studio, August-November 1994, except (4), at Psycho Acoustic Studio, Copenhagen, September 1992
Digital sound editing by Ryoji Ikeda
Mastered by Masayo Takise at Tokyo CD Center
Visual direction and design by Shiro Takatani
Photos by Kazuo Fukunaga, Yoko Takatani, and Shiro Takatani

Released in 1995