JOJI YUASA : Oto No Hajimari Wo Motomete 11 - Unnoted Electronic Music

1 Projection Esemplastic With White Noise 7:49
2 “Icon” On The Source Of White Noise 12:18
3 Voices Coming 10:57
4 My Blue Sky 15:47
5 Opening Bell At Nhk Hall 1:06
6 Music For The Main Pavilion Of The Okinawa Ocean 10:11

1. Projection Esenplastik (1964) When he decided to create electronic music at NHK, he did not use the Western concept of electronic music, in which electronic sounds are piled up to form music, but used only white noise, which originally contained all frequencies, from which various components were extracted to form the sound. The sound was composed by extracting various components from white noise alone, which originally contained all frequencies.

2.'Icon' (1967), also using white noise as material, developed from the previous piece and adopted a multi-channel system. In the original version, several sound images of various widths (e.g. three loudspeakers playing simultaneously) move at different speeds around the audience, who are positioned inside the pentagonal loudspeaker arrangement.

3.Voices Cumming (1969) When I thought about what exactly defines a human being, I thought that the generation of music and the generation of the human voice are both simultaneous. The emergence of language, that is, determining the I and the other, that is, the I and the other. Human language, trilogy of languages.

4.My Blue Sky (1975) While many electronic music works had already been created and various techniques used, I created this work because I thought I could still create a new expression. The expressive power of this work was pursued by applying a gate to a sine wave and using the beat sound induced by the shift in the cycle when the gate cycle, gate width, frequency of the original sine wave, etc., were changed.

BONUS TRACK
5.NHK Hall opening bell (1973)
6.Music for the main pavilion at the Okinawa Ocean Expo (1975