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	Otomo Yoshihide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Otomo Yoshihide (大友良英) (born August 1, 1959) is a Japanese experimental musician.
		Otomo studied at the Meiji University from 1979 where he took a course on ethnomusicology in which he concentrated on Japanese pop music during World War II and the development of musical instruments during the Chinese Cultural Revolution (samples of instruments and music from this period are found in several of his records).
		Among the other musicians Otomo has worked with are Jon Rose, Yamatsuka Eye of The Boredoms (with Eye as MC Hellshit and Otomo as DJ Carhouse), Butch Morris, Voice Crack, Keith Rowe, Toshimaru Nakamura, Bill Laswell, John Zorn, Philip Jeck, Martin Tétreault, and poire_z.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Otomo_Yoshihide (461 words)

	Otomo Yoshihide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Towards end of that group's life Otomo formed with Sachiko M an outfit which concentrated music made from sine waves clicks and and I. (Otomo Sachiko M Yoshimitsu Ichiraku) which played purely electronic free improvisations.
		At the end of the 1990s he Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Ensemble a group played more traditional jazz (albeit with added waves from Sachiko M and noisy passages) released Flutter and Dreams on the Tzadik label.
		Among the other musicians Otomo has worked are Jon Rose Yamatsuka Eye of The (with Eye as MC Hellshit and Otomo DJ Carhouse) Butch Morris Voice Crack and poire_z.
	www.freeglossary.com /Yoshihide_Otomo (519 words)

	Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Ensemble: Dreams: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In the case of Otomo Yoshihide, you might even be hard-pressed to call it 'jazz' at all.
		In many ways, Otomo is similar to American John Zorn, though rather than flighty sax skronks and hardcore backdrops, he favors the turntable, the guitar, and the raw, romantic impressionism of free jazz.
		Yoshihide's band, following the hallowed jazz model of reinterpretation, has taken music seemingly outside their realm and played it like it could never have belonged to anyone else.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/y/yoshihide_otomo/dreams.shtml (725 words)

	EXTREME RECORDS Release - XCD-045 \| Otomo Yoshihide & Sachiko M. \| Filament 1 In Stock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		When Otomo Yoshihide decided to start afresh since the demise of Ground-Zero, he realised that he had to take a great risk to find a new musical voice.
		Otomo and Sachiko M have managed to deconstruct electronic music to its very, albeit fragmented, essence.
		The similarities in the two projects are that Otomo has managed to distance himself from the need to create anything overtly musical.
	www.xtr.com /detail.php?cat=XCD-045&section=info (202 words)

	Polestar Music Gallery: OTOMO YOSHIHIDE
		Otomo Yoshihide was born on August 1, 1959 in Yokohama, Japan.
		For Otomo, this was a turning point--the point at which he decided to play free jazz.
		Otomo became increasingly involved in the study of ethnomusical history, and of two subjects in particular: Japanese popular music during World War II, and the evolution of Chinese musical instruments during the Cultural Revolution.
	www.seattleimprovisedmusic.com /Polestar/Archive/pole051603.html (608 words)

	CARL STONE and YOSHIHIDE OTOMO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		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.
		Yoshihide Otomo, composer, turnatable artist, guitar player, is one of the most adventurous of sound creators within the Tokyo music scene today, and is rapidly acquiring acclaim in Europe and America as well as other parts of Asia.
		Otomo continues to work with the concept that process and relation within creativity is equal in significance to that which is created, an attitude from which new possibilities are always emerging and definitions are void.
	www.sukothai.com /Otomo1.html (284 words)

	The History of Rock Music. Ground Zero: biography, discography, reviews, links
		Ground Zero, the brainchild of guitarist and turntablist Otomo Yoshihide, transposed Zeni Geva's noise-core to the age of sampling.
		Chipfarm (God Mountain, 1995) was a collaboration among Optical-8 (a Japanese quartet led by Hoppy Kamiyama on electronics and samples, and Otomo Yoshihide on guitar and turntables), Japanese rockers Melt Banana, Elliot Sharp and Zeena Parkins.
		Otomo Yoshihide plays guitar in the eleven-unit ensemble Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden, led by guitarist, saxophonist and keyboardist Naruyoshi Kikuchi, that recorded Report From Iron Mountain (P-Vine, 2002), a bizarre exercise in electronica, free-jazz and muzak (Mirror Ball).
	www.scaruffi.com /vol6/groundze.html (801 words)

	Browse by Artist: YOSHIHIDE, OTOMO
		Yoshihide scurries among the remains of his past projects to find a new direction, taking us from Ground Zero's harsh noise to the Spartan purity of Filament.
		"Otomo Yoshihide is one of the most important musician and composer in the present Tokyo music scene; by using 2 or more turntables, scratches, cuts, distorts, makes loops and lumps the sounds vinyl discs.
		Otomo revives the recorded sounds to make a collage of mixed music on an analogue basis.
	www.forcedexposure.com /artists/yoshihide.otomo.html (749 words)

	culturebase.net \| The international artist database \| Otomo Yoshihide
		Otomo Yoshihide, born in 1959 in Yokohama, is one of the most creative figures in Japan’s current experimental scene.
		Otomo often forms new groups for special projects: the “Double Unit Orchestra”, “Celluloid Machine Gun” (for music in the style of Hong Kong movies), “Mosquito Paper” (recitation of prose texts with music), etc. Otomo combines all these activities in projects such as “Revolutionary Pekinese Opera”, “Consume” and “Sampling Virus Project”.
		Otomo’s versatility can be seen in the fact that he has also composed soundtracks for films and television movies and for theatre musicians (the theatre ensemble “Rinkogun”), as well as publishing his ideas on many issues regarding music and the music business in journals and books.
	www.culturebase.net /artist.php?1231 (529 words)

	Otomo Yoshihide - Anode: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		John Zorn'; s game pieces such as Cobra come to mind, which he likened to a baseball game where, despite fairly rigid rules being in effect, the outcome is uncertain, although it will always retain the character of baseball.
		Otomo Yoshihide had a long history of brilliant work in improvised ensembles (as well as rock and jazz groups) and had been devoting much of his time prior to this recording investigating ultra-quiet free improvisation utilizing sine waves and extremely abstract electronics, resulting in delicate music at the very edge of hearing.
		One cannot give Yoshihide too much credit for refusing to play by the rules, even if those rules are supposedly infinitely flexible.
	www.music.com /release/anode/1 (455 words)

	Otomo Yoshihide: Anode: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		And I can hear sine waves-- Yoshihide and Sachiko M are forever playing sine waves now.
		And this is distinctly symphonic music: each part is essential, as Yoshihide has chosen the perfect arrangement to fulfill his murky impressions.
		The second movement of his "symphony" is intimidating in its efficiency of movement and sound, but then again, it could all very well be one big accident.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/y/yoshihide_otomo/anode.shtml (842 words)

	Gentle Giant Records
		His defiance of categorization and establishment has brought him recognition not only for musical agility but also a place as a key individual within the ever-spreading worldwide network of independent and like-minded challenging musicians.
		Among representative works/projects are GROUND-ZERO, a unit weaving out energy music over a base structure of samples and improvisation, and soundtracks to films THE BLUE KITE (China, 1993) and THE DAY THE SUN TURNED COLD (Hong Kong, 1994) both of which were winners at the Tokyo International Film Festival in 1993 and 1994.
		Otomo continues to work with the concept that process and relation within creativity is equal to the significance of the created, an attitude from which new possibilities are always emerging and definitions are void.
	www.tvpow.net /ggr/artist_otomo.htm (230 words)

	Browse by Artist: MÜLLER/OTOMO YOSHIHIDE, GÜNTER
		Müller and Otomo first met in Matsushima, Japan in 1989 at a show Müller was doing in an abandoned quarry with his band Nachtluft.
		Otomo had driven four hours from Tokyo to see the performance, and afterwards they met for the first time.
		They've since collaborated in a handful of contexts, most notably the Filament 2 record on For 4 Ears, with the trio of Müller, Otomo and Sachiko M. Time Travel was recorded in October 2002, just before the Amplify 2002 festival, and marked their first meeting as a duo.
	www.forcedexposure.com /artists/muller.otomo.yoshihide.gunter.html (181 words)

	Otomo Yoshihide MP3 Downloads - Otomo Yoshihide Music Downloads - Otomo Yoshihide Music Videos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		With his New Jazz Orchestra (or NJO), Otomo Yoshihide continued to work this peculiar side vein of what most fans would likely consider to be his main work in improvisatory turntables and electronics, though one might guess that this project was a bit more financially remunerative.
		This was his fifth venture with his jazz band after two releases each on Tzadik and DIW, but here he expands the group to include as many as 15 musicians, several from the European free improv scene, and one well known to pop culture in Japan.
		The disc includes several covers and begins with one Yoshihide had recorded before, Jim O'Rourke's "Eureka." As is his habit with this band, Yoshihide mixes relatively straight readings of a piece's theme with all manner of sonic detritus both electronic and acoustic.
	www.mp3.com /albums/20052408/summary.html (599 words)

	Otomo Yoshihide - Cathode: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		With 1999's Cathode [+], Otomo Yoshihide [+] presents a mix of his experimental material.
		In contrast, "Cathode #1" presents an improvising ensemble of samplers and electronics, and traditional instruments, from cello to shamisen.
		Yoshihide continues to explore sound experimentation with this release, never looking back to past projects such as Ground Zero.
	www.music.com /release/cathode/1 (239 words)

	VH1.com : Otomo Yoshihide : Biography
		Improvisational guitarist, turntablist and composer Otomo Yoshihide was born August 1, 1959 in Yokohama, Japan; the son of an engineer, as a child he built his own radio and
		During high school, Yoshihide performed in a local rock band before moving on to free jazz, influenced primarily by saxophonist Kaoru Abe and guitarist Masayuki Takayanagi; while a university student, he also became fascinated with ethnic music, and in 1981 traveled to Hainan, China to research the area's musical culture.
		Upon returning to Tokyo, Yoshihide began regularly performing free improvisation sets at the local Goodman club, although he maintained a relatively low profile until 1987, when he appeared in a duo with saxophonist Junji Hirose in addition to concurrent stints in the bands No Problem and ORT.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/yoshihide_otomo/bio.jhtml (261 words)

	Otomo Yoshihide : Silanganan Ingay - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		This is an early document in the chronology of freaking out by Japanese musical deviant Otomo, here heard in a duo with a partnet who sticks mostly to toys.
		The two have a single track in which they duet on sax and guitar, an almost stock free improvising combination, but other than that they improvise in real time, with no overdubbing, on a spread of home-made instruments, turntables, cassettes, toy drum machines and mixers.
		Otomo in particular traveled a long way since this material is recorded, but listeners who enjoy his work will certainly find this recording of interest.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,929195,00.html (260 words)

	Otomo Yoshihide: Discography
		Otomo, Yoshihide, Taku Sugimoto, and Sachiko M. Les Hautes Solitudes--A Philippe Garrel Film: Imaginarry Soundtrack.
		Almá Fury, Yasuhiro Otani, Otomo Yoshihide, and Xavier Charles.
		Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet, and Tatsuya Oe.
	www.japanimprov.com /yotomo/disco.html (519 words)

	Ink 19 :: Christian Marclay/Otomo Yoshihide
		Marclay has been involved in avant-garde turntablism since the late seventies, while Yoshihide is becoming an institution within himself.
		While the music on this record is excellent, it doesn't represent the direction of Yoshihide's recent work.
		There are touches of the sine wave experimentation that he's pursued more heavily, but he's abandoned much of this sort of turntable bombast with the dissolving of his Ground-Zero project.
	ink19.com /issues/december2000/wetInk/musicC/christianMarclayOtomo.html (201 words)

	Otomo Yoshihide, Martin Tétreault: Studio — Analogique — Numérique: description - actuellecd.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Otomo Yoshihide, Martin Tétreault: Studio — Analogique — Numérique: description
		Yoshihide used an ultramodern computer to generate a vigorous, staccato digital reconstruction: “Numérique” CD3.
		Each produced his remix without consulting the other—these are two distinctive personal journeys, each taken with the aid of widely different equipment that marked the way the sounds were produced and reproduced throughout.
	www.actuellecd.com /cat.e/am_111.html (283 words)

	Otomo Yoshihide: biography - actuellecd.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Otomo Yoshihide has explored the nature of sound throughout his career.
		In recent years he has developed a passion for low-frequency minimalist electronic music and the results of this work can be heard on the Filament and I.S.O. projects.
		He is also a member of a quintet that plays jazz standards by composers such as Ornette Coleman, Gerry Mulligan, and Eric Dolphy as well as Otomo’s own compositions.
	www.actuellecd.com /bio.e/otomo_yo.html (130 words)

	Splendid Magazine reviews Martin Tetreault and Otomo Yoshihide: Untitled
		Depending on your level of tolerance for noise, Tetreault and Yoshihide live up to those expectations, for they have created an extremely thought-provoking collection of sounds.
		By separating them, not only sonically but physically on two CDs, Tetreault and Yoshihide make a powerful statement that we work best when these aspects are combined.
		Thus, while Untitled may not be something to throw in the stereo during your next party, it's worth listening to when you have an hour (or several) to think.
	www.splendidezine.com /review.html?reviewid=106370838929058 (692 words)

	Otomo Yoshihide interview
		I first heard about turntablist/guitarist Otomo Yoshihide through one of his many projects, Ground Zero.
		This was just the tip of the iceberg for him- a culmination of his work and tribute to his heros.
		Otomo has been releasing material for about ten years now through dozens of projects and collaborations including work with Lawrence 'Butch' Morris, Carl Stone and Eye from the Boredoms as well as movie soundtracks.
	www.furious.com /perfect/otomo.html (1484 words)

	Otomo Yoshihide - The Night Before the Death of the Sampling Virus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Otomo Yoshihide - The Night Before the Death of the Sampling Virus
		While pacing the dark streets of Tokyo, OTOMO YOSHIHIDE heard voices, disjointed voices, a rush of sounds and then silence, almost sinister.
		To play this release in random mode is to allow the SAMPLING VIRUS to regenerate, to mutate with near infinite possibilities.
	illegalart.net /catalog/otherlabels/sampling_virus.html (111 words)

	Moving Parts, MP3 Album Music Download at eMusic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Having teamed up with Japanese turntablist and guitar player Otomo Yoshihide for their collaboration Moving Parts, the two continue in their ongoing quest to evolve music and sound far beyond anything that is even remotely accessible to a mainstream audience.
		Moving Parts is a ravenous bricolage of plunderphonics, pulling sounds from cut-up and reassembled records and the turntable itself.
		Even with all the noise, Moving Parts succeeds on a heady plane of association where, as Marshall McLuhan would definitely state, "the medium is the message." Juxtaposing Hawaiian guitars, gas being released from valves, faint carnival noises, and double-bass pluckings, Marclay and Yoshihide assemble these harsh noises with the elegance of impressionist painters.
	www.emusic.com /album/10602/10602106.html (391 words)

	Otomo Yoshihide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Dror Feiler played instead and it was the most terrible show I ever heard.
		Otomo played at the second set and it was just amazing.
		He brought a bunch of floppy single records from Soviet "Krugozor" magazine.
	mailman.xmission.com /pipermail/zorn-list/2002-June/000680.html (220 words)

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