Otomo Yoshihide - Memory Defacement (FULL ALBUM)

0:00 - Voice Defacement 18:00 - Experimental Defacement 33:42 - Live Defacement Black LP Side A: Voice Defacement Side B: Experimental Defacement Recorded by Yoshihide Otomo in Tokyo, April 1997 Clear LP Side A: Live Defacement (Nothing on the side B) Performed by A-102: Yoshihide Otomo (turntables) and Sachiko M (sampler) Recorded live by Noriya Maekawa at Xebec Hall, Kobe on June 14, 1997 Mixed by Tetsuya Kotani at Omega Sound in Osaka "Memory defacement is different from the performances and recordings I have done in the past. It is the project which shows the entire four stage-processes that took place in half a year. Releasing this double-vinyl is its last stage. The first stage was to compose and record the sound resource for the black vinyl. I cracked a record, and based on the cracks I decided precisely where all the sound should be recorded; I put the collage sound in 87 spots with exactly the same timing on the A & B sides are different; I used a variety of music from the 20th century for the A side, and avant-grade music, especially electric sound, for the B side. The second stage was to press 500 analog disks of the sound, and to play them continuously on 10 turntables for 3 weeks at Xebec Hall in Kobe. My initial plan was to use many more turntables and play the records for a longer period, so the songs of the 20th century and the various experiment recorded on the A & B sides would sink into the sea of scratch noise. Unfortunately, the plan did not reach that far and the records were not so damaged. Hopefully, you will play this record continuously until the fragments of this 20th century legacy return to sea of noise. The third stage was to have the live performance at Xebec Hall using the original sound resources, and press it on the clear vinyl." - Otomo Yoshihide Released 1997 Genres: Turntable Music, Musique Concrète, Noise 320k mp3 upload