Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Blocks of Consciousness and the Unbroken Continuum

(Sound 323, ISBN 978-0-9551541-0-2, DVD3231) (UK) (book + DVD)

Book

Introduction by the editors

1.
Brian Marley - John Cage: Qualities of Silence
Clive Bell - Sachiko M: Ah, the Sweet Torture
Dan Warburton - Les Instants Composés
Andy Hamilton - The Necks
David Reid - Performances (DVD notes)
Brian Marley - John Wall: The Rocky Road to cphon
Bertrand Denzler and Jean-Luc Guionnet - Out in the Field
Will Montgomery - On the Surface of Silence: Reticence in the Music of Richard Chartier
David Toop - The Feeling of Rooms

2.
Rhodri Davies - What are you doing with your music?
Answers to this question supplied by Otomo Yoshihide / Phil Durrant / Annette Krebs / Graham Halliwell / Xavier Charles / Bernhard Günter / Andrea Neumann / Lee Patterson / Sean Meehan / Matt Davis / Mattin / Ruth Barberán / Burkhard Beins / Isabelle Duthoit / Jérôme Noetinger / Angharad Davies / Takehiro Nishide / Nikos Veliotis / James Saunders / Johan Berthling / Taku Unami / Steve Roden / Margarida Garcia

DVD

  1. Keith Rowe
    Recorded live at Derby Dance Centre, Derby, November 23, 2003

  2. Evan Parker
    Recorded live at St. Michael and All Angels, Chiswick, London, October 11, 2001

  3. Birdyak (Bob Cobbing, Lol Coxhill, Hugh Metcalfe, Jennifer Pike)
    Recorded live at Freedom of the City, Conway Hall, London, May 4, 2002

  4. John Tilbury
    Recorded live at Ongaku, St. Cyprians, London, November 25, 2003

  5. Anton Lukoszevieze and Eddie Prévost
    Recorded live at Freedom of the City, Conway Hall, London, May 6, 2002

  6. Broken Consort (Matt Davis, Rhodri Davies, Mark Wastell)
    Recorded live at Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, July 20, 2003

  7. Jérôme Noetinger
    Recorded live at The Termite Club, Adelphi Public House, Leeds, March 26, 2004

  8. John Butcher
    Recorded live at St. Michael and All Angels, Chiswick, London, November 22, 2001

  9. Tetuzi Akiyama - Fast Machine [for Alan Licht]
    Composed by Tetuzi Akiyama
    Tetuzi Akiyama: amplified wooden guitar
    Recorded live at Ongaku, 291 Gallery, London, June 15, 2003

  10. Nmperign (Greg Kelley and Bhob Rainey)
    Recorded live at Sound 323, Highgate, London, June 5, 2004

Book
Edited by Brian Marley and Mark Wastell
Design by Damien Beaton
Hardback, 341 pages, full color

DVD
Audiovisual material compiled and selected by David Reid
No edits within selections
PAL

Released in January 2006