An introduction to sound work by Yamaoka Yasuhiro. This is my brief synopsis.
Around 1975, I taught myself how to play, in my own way, with the sound devices around me (musical instruments, turntables, tape recorders, furniture or anything). About 1981, I began to compile my work as an album on cassette tape, and loaned it to my friends. In 1986, I bought a synthesizer. From then, rather than creating sound collage work, my improvised playing increased, until around 1990, when my sound work slowed down. In 1994, I began to make DTM (DeskTop Music) with newly bought sequencer software and a PCM sound module for my Mac. I then made about one composition a day. In 1995, I got sound waveform editor software, and slowly changed the way I worked from DTM with MIDI signal to HDR (HardDisk Recording) with sound waveform edit. Around 2000, my old Mac began to frequently crash, so I started working with a friend's Windows software. This change pushed me to make music totally in PC without using any other music hardware.
Recorded: live on March 16, 2003 at the Beta Lounge in San Francisco
In 1967, San Francisco’s Fifty Foot Hose were certainly one of the innovators of a sound that took Psychedelia to new heights and was captured on the band’s one record, Cauldron. They are a totally unique hybrid—on one hand pulsating bay area acid rock, on the other, fractured electronic freakery, becoming one whole cohesive being. The sci-fi-ish video game-like artwork hinted at the sounds within, as did the Limelight label’s pedigree for truly progressive sounds. Band leader, Cork Marcheschi, used homemade electronic devices to create crude and experimental soundscapes and instrumental compositions that were sprinkled throughout the album.
Often starting shows with a swelling rumble that exploded into the first song, they soon developed a rabid following on the SF scene, though there was the occasional totally wrong gig, like when a very-pregnant Nancy had to perform at a Catholic Girls’ school! Still, the group wowed the crowds, performing with greats like Chuck Berry and Fairport Convention.
2 of our tracks, "Straighthead" & "Last Man Standing", are now signed, we're pleased to be released through Notorious Elektro, home of artists like Gino's and Snake, Oxia, The Hacker, Popof, Xenia Belyayeva, Manic Mind, Andreas Henneberg, Lady K and Luca D, The Lesbian Theory, Botox, Human Body & Kiko
Our 1st EP will be available on vinyl & digital on the 24th of June
Strong feedbacks & supports by Terence Fixmer, Electric Indigo, Marc DePulse, Brodinski, Marc Antona, Marc Ashken, Alland Byallo, Paul Brtschitsch, David Keno, Paul Lorraine, ...
Pre order now on http://www.decks.de
Hey labels, we still have tracks left for signing ...
Brielmusik News: I joined a little contest here on myspace - if you like go over there and vote for your favourite track - preferably mine, of course. ;) (Check my page for the link.)
