TOSHI ICHIYANAGI : Oto No Hajimari Wo Motomete 12 - Environmental Music“The World

1-1 Parallel Music
9:08 1-2 KUU 59:50
2-1 Tokyo 1969 (Ver. 2) 14:35
2-2 Music For Living Space 14:45
2-3 The World 24:35

Housed in a mini-LP gatefold sleeve with an 8-page booklet of liner notes in Japanese only.
Track 2-1 is listed only as 'Tokyo 1969' on the cover but appears correctly as 'Ver. 2' in the liner notes.

1-1 Parallel Music (1962)
"A work from the era of mono radio, when NHK was located in Shimbashi and the studio was called the Electronic Music Room.
1962 Produced environmental music at Chance Operation during the John Cage Shock! Art Festival participation work.
Tape music in which the process of creation is more important than the result."

1-2 Kuu [Sky] (1965)
"Electronic music created for an opera that was never completed. Involving super-high frequency radiation, exploding chairs, performers and audience alike, an 'environmental music opera' that aimed for dynamic chaos.
A 60-minute version reportedly made at NHK Osaka was shown for the first time."

2-1. Tokyo 1969 (ver. 2) (1969)
"In the era of radio FM stereo, NHK moved to Jinnan, the design concept of the electronic music studio changed and the name was changed to Electronic Music Studio. In addition to music, rakugo and news on the radio and in the street at the time, rock music, which had just started in Japan, was arranged irregularly. The compositional idea was to incorporate electronic sounds with indeterminate phenomena into the music."
This is an alternate version of the original (final) work, which appears on Various - 音の始源を求めて 4 佐藤茂の仕事 [Oto No Hajimari Wo Motomete 4: Shigeru Sato Work].

2-2 Music for Living Space (1970)
"Music for the 'living' section of the aerial exhibition in the 'Theme Pavilion' centered on the Tower of the Sun at the Japan World Exposition. The computer-generated synthetic voice produced by Kyoto University's Faculty of Electronic Engineering read out Kisho Kurokawa's 'Capsule Manifesto', Kiyoshi Awazu's 'Design Theory' and Noboru Kawazoe's 'Architecture Theory' as a manifesto for future architecture, while Gregorian chants and songs were played. Full Scale Original Vinyl."

2-3 The World (1975)
"Sister piece to Tokyo 1969. ＜'Environmental' motives are fundamental to the conception. The work was created on location, transforming changes in the natural and artificial environment, such as sound, light, wind, temperature and humidity, into sound, and incorporating the accidental effects of the natural environment. The work creates an organic and dynamic 'environment' by mixing a variety of music and sound and incorporating unexpected natural effects."