John Cage / Lowell Cross / Toshi Ichiyanagi / Alvin Lucier / David Tudor - Appearance/Music for Solo Performer: Compositions by Toshi Ichiyanagi and Alvin Lucier, featuring John Cage and David Tudor - Japan CD

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John Cage / Lowell Cross / Toshi Ichiyanagi / Alvin Lucier / David Tudor

Description:

The recording level, which was slightly suppressed on the LP due to physical problems, has been pushed to the limit of what is possible only on CD, and the result is an ultra bombastic sound! Along with the Omega Point and M Records joint release of the LP, a CD version with Omega's original specifications is also available! The content of the CD version is the same as the LP version, but the recording level of the LP version was slightly restrained due to physical problems, but the CD version takes it to the limit of what is possible only on a CD! Omega Point and M Records have been making a lot of noise with this joint release, which comes just when you forget about it. This time, we have Alvin Lussier's "Music for One Performer," known as the first musical work using human brain waves, and a spectacular unintelligible bombastic mass demonstrated by John Cage's group in the 60's, as if it were not possible. The other is a master tape recording of Toshi Ichiyanagi's masterpiece "Appearance," which was released by Omega Point in the early days and shook up the current sound mania. The essence of these experimental music, which are beyond mere rarity and can be called proto-industrial, will be presented in a historical dialectic in the current ambient fashion! This is a live recording of a concert by Cage, David Tudor, and Toshi Ichiyanagi at Hope University in Michigan in 1967. The Hope University concert was also an unrelenting explosion of amplified performance sound. Lucier's "Music for One Performer" (1965) is the closest recording to the year of composition currently available, and is being presented for the first time in the world. This 1967 version is quite different from the one released by Lussier and Pauline Oliveros on Lovely Music in 1982, with the electrical realization techniques of the Cage school, a metaphysical unintelligible sound mass that sounds like neighborhood road construction if you don't know what's going on. The brainwave demonstrations are performed by the virtuoso Tudor. Toshi Ichiyanagi's "Appearance" (1967) was the most recent piece at the time, published on the front cover of a volume of the then-unknown Source Magazine, and features Cage in an explosive performance that mixes live electronics and acoustic instruments. The performance itself is identical to the one released on Omega Point in 2006, but the source tape used for this release is believed to be the master tape, which clearly has higher linearity and greatly improved sound quality. It is also a longer version that includes audience reactions not present in the 2006 version. This work includes a foreword by Omega Point (explaining how the tapes were discovered), a reprint of Toshi Ichiyanagi's "Appearance" 2006 commentary, and a commentary by sound artist Minoru Sato, a researcher of Lucier's works who had been in contact with the artist before his death