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ICHIYANAGI, TOSHI - Shikisokuzekuu-Kuusokuzeshiki (色即是空空即是色)

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Edition Omega Point OPA-020 Release Year: 2016 Note: two tape pieces by the Japanese grand master of experimental music, the title piece (1964, 33+ min.), and "Extented Voices" (1967, 11+ min.) => when this was produced it belonged surely to the most experimental and inaccessible stuff you could find, a mixture of feedbacks, crackles of all kinds, clashing field / object recordings and weird electronic morphing sounds, reaching out to microscopic realms... lim. 500, gatefold cover, liner notes in English & Japanese Price (incl. 19% VAT): €21.50 More Info “Shikisokuzekuu-Kuusokuzeshiki” (1964). “Extended Voices” (tape part, stereo version – 1967).#The details of “Shikisokuzekuu-Kuusokuzeshiki” are unknown except it was created at the NHK electronic music studio. According to Ichiyanagi, there are various discussions for the title, but it seemed to be eventually broadcasted on the radio with the title Kuu after a producer desired and decided to name it. At this time, the original title was used as following the initial intention of Ichiyanagi. In addition, short experimental film “Shikisokuzekuu” (1974) produced by a filmmaker Toshio Matsumoto where Ichiyanagi was also in charge of tape music was a different work so it does not have any relation with this music work.#Note: Shikisokuzekuu-Kuusokuzeshiki means “Form is exactly emptiness. Emptiness is exactly form.”#“Extended Voices” can be enjoyed by listening to the Columbia LP album “Extended Voices” with the collection of voices from the music works. A new version with mixing voices of baritone of Takashi Matsudaira to a monaural tape part was released by Omega Point in 2014, but since the stereo version was found later, it was added as a tape work without voice this time. It can be said that this is a completed work as an independent electronic music. (Provider of the tape recording: Gregor Meyer)#[Translated by Toshiyuki Kawata]