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TBWB live documentation: Osaka 2005

by Thomas Bey William Bailey

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This is a half-hour's worth of music meant for use in an Osaka duo performance with my years-long collaborator Jet Vel, himself a visible fixture on the Kansai underground music scene since the 1990s. Interestingly, up until that time, JV was almost exclusively a live performer and generally avoided physical releases, this being the polar opposite of the trend within 'free music' / 'noise' etc etc to publish dozens of physical documents unsupported by live concerts.

This was performed, as was / is often the case within this milieu, in a tiny music bar which was housed within a complex given over to various 'lonely hearts' snack bars, providing just the right amount of environmental tension. It was cozy enough that JV had to use a portion of the bar proper to set up his turntables while I set up my laptop and mixer in a dark corner...making the distinction between performer and audience would have been difficult for 'outsiders' to this scene. You can see similar activities taking place in “The Endless Waltz,” the great docu-drama film about underground sax legend Kaoru Abe.

Regrettably, this complete unedited “audience recording” of this concert is stored on MiniDisc, that delightful only-in-Japan format, and I don’t (at the moment) have the equipment to transfer and upload it. The full result was much more raucous than this, given that the materials you here on this track were manipulated by me in real time, and JV's turntable manipulation brought an intense heat that otherwise doesn't seem present in this spectral palette of sounds.

Nevertheless, I've come to like this material on its own merits, as it's one of the most restrained pieces I have either fully completed or partially completed. Like a lot of what I did from 2005-2006 or so, the selection of sounds was indebted to the 21st century Japanese electronic / improv scene exploding around me.

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released November 30, 2021

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Jet Vel (courtesy of Empty Orchestra): ghost turntables

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Thomas Bey William Bailey is a researcher and author of several books (e.g. "To Hear The World With New Eyes," "Micro Bionic," "Sonic Phantoms") as well as a dedicated sound artist and editor of the Fifteen Minutes of Anonymity label.

His work explores issues of unstable identity, post-industrial technology, and the hidden wonders at the edges of perception. ... more

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