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Otomo Yoshihide (大友 良英) (born August 1, 1959) is a Japanese experimental musician. He is a turntablist and guitarist. August 1 is the 213th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (214th in leap years), with 152 days remaining. ...
1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Experimental music is any music that challenges the commonly accepted notions of what music is. ...
Turntablism is a subgenre of pop music which emerged from hip hop. ...
A guitar is a stringed musical instrument. ...
Otomo was born in Yokohama. He played in rock bands while at college, but turned to improvisation after discovering free jazz and free improvisation musicians like the guitarist Derek Bailey, the saxophonist Kaoru Abe and guitarist Masayuki Takayanagi (from whom he had lessons). Japans tallest building, the Landmark Tower, is in the Minato Mirai 21 district of Yokohama. ...
Free jazz is a movement of jazz music characterized by diminished dependence on formal constraints. ...
Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the taste of the musicians involved, and not in any particular style. ...
Derek Bailey pictured at the Vortex Club, Stoke Newington, 1991. ...
Masayuki Takayanagi is a Japanese jazz / noise musician. ...
Otomo studied at the Meiji University from 1979 where he took a course on ethnomusicology in which he concentrated on Japanese pop music during World War II and the development of musical instruments during the Chinese Cultural Revolution (samples of instruments and music from this period are found in several of his records). From 1981 Otomo played free improvisation in clubs, performing on guitar and also using tapes and electronics. Meiji University (明治大å¦) is a famous private university in Ochanomizu, Tokyo. ...
Ethnomusicology (from the Greek ethnos = nation and mousike = music), formerly comparative musicology, is the study of music in its cultural context, cultural musicology. ...
A poster during the Cultural Revolution. ...
Ground Zero
Otomo began to release records from the end of the 1980s. He has been very prolific, working in a variety of styles and collaborating with a range of musicians. For much of the 1990s his main project was Ground Zero, a large group founded in 1990 with an ever-changing lineup. They played music in a variety of styles, perhaps best summed up as noise rock with an experimental edge: in Consume Red (1997), for example, a sample of Korean musician Kim Suk Chul playing the hojok (a reed instrument) is continuously repeated throughout the single hour-long track while the band imporovise around it, becoming louder, and eventually swamping the sample out. Ground Zero was an improvised noise rock band during the 1990s lead by Otomo Yoshihide that had a large and rotating group of performers on such instruments as turntables, shamisen, koto, sampler, electric guitar and two drum kits. ...
Noise rock is a musical genre that developed in the 1980s as an experimental outgrowth of punk rock. ...
The hojok, also known as the taepyongso (tae-pyong-so, big peace wind instrument), is a Korean wind instrument that falls into the oboe family. ...
Filament Ground Zero was disbanded in 1998. Towards the end of that group's life, Otomo formed two electronic free improvisation groups: Filament with Sachiko M, which concentrated on music made from sine waves, clicks and hums, and I. S. O. (Otomo, Sachiko M and Yoshimitsu Ichiraku). Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the taste of the musicians involved, and not in any particular style. ...
Sachiko Matsubara, who usually records as Sachiko M, is a Japanese musician. ...
New Jazz Ensemble At the end of the 1990s he founded Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Ensemble, a group that played more traditional jazz (albeit with added sine waves from Sachiko M and noisy passages), which released Flutter and Dreams on the Tzadik label. In Japan, a more consistent lineup of the group, using the name Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet, has released "ONJQ LIVE" (2002), a collaboration with Tatsuya Oe entitled "ONJQ+OE" (2003), and "Tails Out" (2003). 2005 saw a release credited to the Otomo Yoshihide New Jazz Orchestra, the largest group thus far. See Tzadik for other meanings of the word. ...
Other Works Otomo has also released duo albums with early experimental turntablist Christian Marclay ("Moving Parts", 2000) and another Japanese electronic musician, Nobukazu Takemura ("Turntables + Computers", 2003). Christian Marclay is a visual artist and musical composer based in New York, who is exploring the pattern languages connecting sound, photography, video, and film. ...
Nobukazu Takemura is a Japanese musician whose style has run from jazz to house to drum and bass to chamber music to electronic glitch within less than a decade. ...
Records released under his own name include Cathode (1999), which includes sine wave-based pieces and pieces mainly made from samples, and Anode (2001), a group improvisation where the players are constrained by certain pre-determined rules).
Among the other musicians Otomo has worked with are Jon Rose, Yamatsuka Eye of The Boredoms (with Eye as MC Hellshit and Otomo as DJ Carhouse), Butch Morris, Voice Crack, Keith Rowe, Toshimaru Nakamura, Bill Laswell, John Zorn, Philip Jeck, Martin Tétreault, and poire_z. Otomo was also part of an Australian / Japanese industrial outfit called Peril. Yamatsuka Eye is a Japanese vocalist. ...
The Boredoms are a Japanese avant-garde band formed in 1986, whose wildly varied output is notoriously difficult to pidgeonhole. ...
Lawrence D. Butch Morris is an American jazz cornetist, composer and conductor, born February 10, 1947 in Long Beach, California. ...
Voice Crack was a Swiss electronic free improvisation group. ...
Keith Rowe (born March 16, 1940) is a grouchy British free improvisation guitarist. ...
Toshimaru Nakamura is a Japanese musician, active in free improvisation and Japanese onkyo. ...
Bill Laswell (born February 12, 1955 in Salem, Illinois and raised in Detroit) is a prolific bassist, producer, and record label owner who has collaborated with hundreds of musicians all over the world. ...
John Zorn (born September 2, 1953 in New York City) is a American composer and saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist. ...
Philip Jeck (b. ...
poire_z (the underscore is part of the name) was an electronic free improvisation group formed about 2000 Personnel: eRik M: turntables, effects Gunter Muller: percussion, effects Andy Guhl and Norbert Möslang (who recorded as Voice Crack) on homemade electronics. ...
Peril were an industrial band operating throughout the early 1990s. ...
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