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Japanese guitar improvisor Toshimaru Nakamura first came to the forefront of
the avantgarde with
A Paragon of Beauty (Art Union, 1995).
He soon realized that he was meant for a different kind of instrument and
proceeded to play the mixing board: he plugged the output into the input of
the mixing board and used the knob to shape the resulting waves of feedback.
Repeat, a duo with USA-born percussionist
Jason Kahn, concocted a sophisticated blend of
acid-rock, musique concrete, glitch music, free jazz and industrial music on
Repeat (december 1997 - Cut, 1998),
Temporary Contemporary (october 1998 - For 4 Ears, 1999), perhaps the best of the bunch,
Select Dialect (Cut, 2000), the most tribal and ethnic of the bunch,
Pool (july 2001 - Cut, 2002).
John Butcher's Cavern with Nightlife contains the 19-minute Practical Luxury (november 2002), a duet with Toshimaru Nakamura on "no-input mixing board"
Turning to the construction of electronic sound sculptures,
Nakamura realized two
collaborations with sampler/vocalist Sachiko M,
Un (Meme, 1999) and
Do (august 2000 - Erstwhile, 2001), that basically defined the aesthetic
of the "onkyo" movement: abstract and minimal textural studies that
toy with both the acoustic and psychological level.
Another important collaboration was
The Improvisation Meeting at Bar Aoyama (july 1999 - Reset, 1999) with Tetuzi Akiyama and
Taku Sugimoto>
This led to a number of duo recordings with Tetuzi Akiyama:
Meeting at Off Site Vol 1 (Reset, 2002),
Meeting at Off Site Vol 2 (may 2002 - IMJ, 2003),
Meeting at Off Site Vol 3 (october 2002 - IMJ, 2003),
International Domestic (august 2002 - Corpus Hermeticum, 2003),
and to
Foldings (january 2002 - Confront, 2003) with Akiyama, Taku Sugimoto and Mark Wastell.
Nakamura's first solo album, No-input Mixing Board (Zero Gravity, 2000),
was the first part of a trilogy, continued on
No-input Mixing Board 2 (january 2001 - A Bruit Secret, 2001),
Vehicle (may 2002 - Cubic Music, 2002),
No-input Mixing Board 3 (march 2002 - Alcohol, 2003).
They all construct soundscapes without any external source, just by
mixing the internal feedback of the mixing board.
Other collaborations included
Siphono (november 2000 - SMI, 2001) with Bruno Meillier,
Weather Sky (june 2001 - Erstwhile, 2001) with Keith Rowe,
Aton (june 2000 - Rossbin, 2001) with Andrea Neumann,
Unplugboy and Toshimaru Nakamura (june 2001 - Alectroecoustic, 2002) with Daniel Weaver,
etc.
Side Guitar (june 2003) was a solo guitar album in the tradition of
the creative improvisers.
Between (july 2005 - Erstwhile Records) was a collaboration between Keith Rowe on guitar and electronics and Toshimaru Nakamura on no-input mixing board.
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