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Tokyo-based electronics artist Toshimaru Nakamura's 9th album of No-Input Mixing Board music, elucidating sound from the mixing board without any audio sources, showing the amazing evolution of his approach as he turns this "empty" "instrument" into an amazing source of rhythmic and assertive sound that's both surprising and wonderfully musical. |
Out of Stock Shipping Weight: 1.00 units Quantity in Basket: None Log In to use our Wish List ![]() UPC: 739027482093 Label: Room40 Catalog ID: RM 494CD Squidco Product Code: 26091 Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2018 Country: Australia Packaging: Cardboard sleeve, sealed Recorded in Tokyo, Japan, between 2011 and 2017. Personnel: Toshimaru Nakamura-no input mixing board Click an artist name above to see in-stock items for that artist. Highlight an instrument above and click here to Search for albums with that instrument. ![]() ![]() Artist Biographies: • Show Bio for Toshimaru Nakamura "Toshimaru Nakamura is a Japanese musician, active in free improvisation and Japanese onkyo. He began his career playing rock and roll guitar, but gradually explored other types of music, even abandoning guitar, and started working on circuit bending. He uses a mixing console as a live, interactive musical instrument: "Nakamura plays the 'no-input mixing board', connecting the input of the board to the output, then manipulating the resultant audio feedback." Nakamura's music has been described as "sounds ranging from piercing high tones and shimmering whistles to galumphing, crackle-spattered bass patterns." Nakamura founded the ensemble A Paragon of Beauty in 1992. He has recorded solo albums, worked as a session musician, and collaborated with artists including Sachiko M ("a kindred spirit"), Otomo Yoshihide, Keith Rowe, John Butcher, Nicholas Bussmann, Taku Sugimoto, Tetuzi Akiyama, dancer Kim Ito, and drummer Jason Kahn." -Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshimaru_Nakamura)4/7/2021 Have a better biography or biography source? Please Contact Us so that we can update this biography. ^ Hide Bio for Toshimaru Nakamura ![]() 1. NIMB 51 04:41 2. NIMB 52 01:54 3. NIMB 53 06:46 4. NIMB 54 03:55 5. NIMB 55 06:21 6. NIMB 56 02:23 7. NIMB 57 05:20 8. NIMB 58 06:08 |
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![]() "Re-Verbed (No-Input Mixing Board 9) is the latest edition from Tokyo based artist Toshimaru Nakamura. The No-Input Mixing Board is a unique instrument pioneered by Nakamura. As its name suggests, it is a mixing console within which external no input exists. The instrument is fuelled only by its own feedback. Initially used by Nakamura as a more tonal instrument, creating incredibly high frequency outputs, over time the mixing board has become decided more rhythmic and harmonic. It is this sonic territory that is the focus of this edition. Re-Verbed (No-Input Mixing Board 9) is by far one of NakmuraÕs most musical recordings. The boardÕs tonality is front and centre; low pulses and cavernous pulses fizzle and murmur with a subtle but frenetic energy. Drifting into decidedly dub oriented directions, Nakamura allows the instrument to breathe; specifically he finds new dimensions to the ways interference can be brought into harmony within the pieces. While the instrument might suggest a sense of indeterminacy, NakamuraÕs intimate relationship with it means he can maintain an unerring sense of control over it. Re-Verbed (No-Input Mixing Board 9) is evidence of his intense capacity to create profound work with this most unusual of devices. A conjuring of something truly unique from literally nothing."-Room 40 ![]() Electro-Acoustic Electro-Acoustic Improv Improvised Music Electronic Forms Solo Artist Recordings Staff Picks & Recommended Items New in Experimental & Electronic Music |