Otomo Yoshihide, Carl Stone - Monogatari: Amino Argot

Artist: 大友良英 Otomo Yoshihide
Album: Monogatari: Amino Argot
Genre:  Experimental, Noise, Sound Art, Free Improvisation
Labe:  Trigram
Recording Date:  1994

Format: CD
Quality:  FLAC
Size: 241.2 MB

In 1994 Carl Stone and Yoshihide Otomo began a mail collaboration where master tapes were passed back and forth serially and the materials of each other's compositions served as the basis for their own. The collaboration is Monogatari: Amino Argot released on the Trigram label. In December 1994 Stone and Otomo played a six-city tour in Japan.
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Monogatari/Amino Argot is a type of collaboration only made possible in the late 20th century. Japanese composer Otomo Yoshihide created a work (largely a sound collage utilizing scraps of material from diverse genres as well as found sound and electronics), put it on disc, and mailed it to San Francisco. There, it was received by Carl Stone, another composer noted for his elaborate work with samplers (see his beautiful album Mom's on New Albion), who proceeded to use it as source material for his own composition. He then sent the new work back to Yoshihide, who adapted that work. Back and forth this process went, yielding six compositions whose origin is the same even as the final results vary wildly. As a rule, Stone's contributions are somewhat smoother than Yoshihide's, as befits the semi-ambient style for which he's known. The latter, on "(Travel Theory)," throws in a dub-like rhythm, overlaid with random phone conversations and whistling electronics, making for a sublimely chaotic and grooving work. Stone picks up this riff on the ensuing "Do a Kurd Initiation," gives it a sharper edge, then sends it skidding into space, multiplying until it becomes a whooshing blur. This is a pretty fascinating transcontinental dialogue between two superb musicians, with enough meat and complexity to satisfy any new music fan. Recommended. AMG

Composed By, Arranged By, Recorded By, Mixed By - Carl Stone , Otomo Yoshihide
Otomo Yoshihide - Composer, Guitar, Leader, Turntables

1 Direction Of The Tale
2 Audio Ink Tradition
3 Travel Theory
4 Do A Kurd Initiation
5 Known / Unknown
6 Ain't Kind Audio Riot

FLAC