ICHIYANAGI, TOSHI

Album	Format	Label & Cat. Number	Description	Year	Price (incl. 19% VAT)
Music for Tinguely	CD	Omega Point - Obscure Tape Music of Japan Vol. 5 / OPA-005	three so far unreleased, very early tape pieces by the radical / innovative Japanese New Music / Avantgarde composer: "Music for Tinguely" (1963) is created from junk objects by the great sculptor of kinetic objects, JEAN TINGUELY; "Apperance" (1967) - a live electronic piece feat. JOHN CAGE and DAVID TUDOR; "Music for Living Space" (1969): composed for the inner space of the Sun Tower at the Expo 1970 in Osaka; lim. 500 in the prolific series of OMEGA POINT	2006	€21.50
Drip Music	BOOK + CD	Edition Omega Point OPA-009	first time release of a rediscovered ICHIYANAGI piece from 1974 , originally named \\\\\\\'Synthesized Piano Space\\\\\\\' - single sounds from a prepared piano undergo a transformation process, sounding like nothing else afterwards... _ the booklet has 24 pages and contains drawing by famous MANGA artist YOJI KURI, plus liner notes... JAPAN IMPORT	2008	€24.50
Electronic Field	CD	Edition Omega Point OPA-008	Live performance from 1997 in the EDITION OMEGA POINT / ICHIYANAGI archive series from Japan - "part of a concert series 'Japanese Experimental Music 1960s' carried out at Art Tower Mito in Ibaraki. Toshi Ichiyanagi played improvisation on prepared piano and the sound was modulated by live electronics." - one track 45+ minutes, lim. ed. 700 copies, excellent artwork	2008	€21.50
Funakakushi	CD	Edition Omega Point OPA-017	two tracks by the legendary Japanese sound-art composer: "Funakakushi" (1963) was made for the opening ceremony of a hotel in Kagawa with a "built-in-stone' sculpture, using Biwa (traditional Japanese instrument) and seawaves-sounds; "Life Music" is an electronic tape piece from 1964; excellent design (cardboard paper gatefold sleeve with obi and single-sided folded insert of notes in Japanese and English), lim. 500	2013	€21.50
Shikisokuzekuu-Kuusokuzeshiki (色即是空空即是色)	CD	Edition Omega Point OPA-020	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	2016	€21.50
Computer Space	CD	Edition Omega Point OPA-023	two early sound compositions from the archive of the legendary Japanese sound artist, published for the first time: "Computer Space" (1970), using a very early computer, creating very strange sounds, "Sound Materials for Metastasis" (1971), music for a short film, along with processed bird sounds used by the Sogetsu Foundation, and "For String # 2 + Stanzas" which dates back to 1961.. - rare Japan import	2019	€21.50