Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit: April is the cruellest month vinyl record

Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit: April is the cruellest month vinyl recordMasayuki Jojo Takayanagi (1932 1991) was a maverick Japanese guitarist, a revolutionary spirit whose oeuvre embodied the radical political movements of late 60s Japan. Having cut his teeth as an accomplished Lennie Tristano disciple playing cool jazz in the late 50s, Takayanagi had his mind blown by the Chicago Transit Authoritys Free Form Guitar in 1969 and promptly turned his back on the jazz scene by which he was beloved, going as far as to call

in which gargoyles come to life and breed with humans in a post-apocalyptic Notre Dame

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the ten works that comprise Resynthese FAVN present iterations of a synthetic timbre produced using machine-listening processes of analysis and further resynthesis —the sonification of a machine caught in the act of listening to itself

and others

a composition by Young that Blank Forms plans to present in Spring 2020

a cross-cultural treatise by the Russian musicologist Genrich “Henry” Orlov

including Waters’ own classic “Moon

They are portraits of a man in search of meaning

which could include dance

” although her thought and creative practice consistently challenged key assumptions about the capacities and limitations of that genre

Recorded mostly during the early winter months of 2022

these tracks were laid down live