Toschi ICHIYANAGI
“Shikisokuzekuu-Kuusokuzeshiki – Obscure Tape Music of Japan vol.20”
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“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]
Encore une découverrte du répertoire électronique de cette figure méconnue de l’avant-garde japonaise, Toshi Ichiyanagi (1933).
“Shikisokuzekuu-Kuusokuzeshiki” (qui signifierait une forme est le vide – le vide est une forme) date de 1964, c’est un grand fracas électronique, organique et tellurique comme le déchainement d’éléments naturels. Excellent !
“Extended Voices” (1967) version bande seule. Initialement mixte (bande et voix. Cf. le CD de Takashi Matsudaira, “Extended voices”), la version bande seule (et réduite en stéréo) sonne comme une tornade électrique bi-piste où les électrons traversent tous le champ des fréquences.
