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

John Cage, Lowell Cross, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Alvin Lucier and David Tudor

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Release Date February 27, 2026
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Catalog No.EMC-28LP
JAN/ISBN 4560283215813
Product Type Vinyl (LP)
Number of Discs 1
Product Package Size (Estimated) 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.3cm

Description

[Machine Translation] Omega Point and M Records' joint release of the "Music for a Single Performer" by Alvin Lussier, known as the first musical work to use human brain waves. This time, we have Alvin Lussier's "Music for One Performer," known as the first musical work using human brain waves, performed by John Cage's group in the 60's. The other is Toshi Ichiyanagi's masterpiece "Appearance," which shook the present sound enthusiasts with its early Omega Point release. The other is a master tape recording of Toshi Ichiyanagi's masterpiece "Appearance," which shook up the current sound enthusiasts with its early Omega Point release. The essence of experimental music, which is more than a mere rarity and can be called proto-industrial, is now being bathed in the historical dialectic of ambient music! 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 date of composition that is currently available, and is being presented for the first time in the world. This 1967 version is quite different from the one released by Lucier and Pauline Oliveros on Lovely Music in 1982, with the electric realization techniques of the Cage school, and is a metaphysical nonsense sound block that sounds like neighborhood road construction if you don't know what it is about. The brainwave performance is by the virtuoso Tudor. Toshi Ichiyanagi's "Appearance" (1967) was the latest piece at the time, published on the front cover of Source Magazine, and featured Cage in an explosive performance that mixed 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 2006 commentary on "Appearance," 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.

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

忘れた頃にやってくるオメガポイントとエム・レコードのお騒がせ合同リリース。今回は、人間の脳波を用いた最初の音楽作品として知られるアルヴィン・ルシエの「一人の演奏家のための音楽」を、あろうことか60年代のジョン・ケージ一派が実演した壮絶な意味不明爆音塊。もう一つは、初期オメガポイントのリリースで現音マニアを震撼させた一柳慧の傑作「アピアランス」のマスターテープ音源という強烈二本立て。単なる希少価値を超えた、プロト・インダストリアルといえるこれら実験音楽の精髄を、アンビエント流行の今、爆音で浴び歴史的弁証法に問う!! 今回の音源は一柳慧が自宅で発掘したテープから発見されたもので、1967年にミシガン州ホープ大学で行われたケージ、デイヴィッド・チュードア、一柳慧らによるコンサートの生録音である。60年代中盤は、ケージとチュードアが電気的に増幅したパフォーマンスサウンドを開発していた只中であり、このホープ大学コンサートでも容赦のないアンプリファイド・パフォーマンス技法による爆音が放たれていた。ルシエの「一人の演奏家のための音楽」 (1965年)は、現在、耳にできる中で最も作曲年に近い録音で、今回、世界初公開となる。この1967年版は、1982年にルシエとポーリン・オリヴェロスがLovely Musicから発表したものとは全く趣の異なる、ケージ一派の電気的リアリゼーション技術が施された内容で、事情を知らなければ近隣の道路工事にしか聞こえない形而下意味不明音塊。脳波の実演奏は名手チュードアが担当している。一柳慧の「アピアランス」 (1967年)は、かの『Source Magazine』誌上の巻頭で発表された当時の最新曲で、生演奏のエレクトロニクスとアコースティック楽器を混合した爆裂演奏にはケージも参加。この演奏自体は、2006年にオメガポイントからリリースされたものと同一内容だが、本作で使用したソーステープはマスターテープと考えられ、明らかにリニアリティが高く、音質が大幅に向上している。また、2006年版にはない聴衆の反応も収録された長尺版となる。本作には、オメガポイントによる序文 (テープ発見の経緯を解説)、一柳慧の「アピアランス」2006年解説の再掲、ルシエ作品の研究家で生前より作家と交流のあったサウンドアーティスト佐藤実による解説を収録。

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