An Adventure of Inevitable Chance

by Yann Tomita

An Adventure of Inevitable Chance cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 25 June 2000
  • Label: P-Vine Records
  • Country: Japan
  • Community rating: 3.54/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded at the Porco Theater, Tokyo, in April 1993 and issued as a two-disc set, 'An Adventure of Inevitable Chance' presents Yann Tomita's plunderphonics method in a live setting. Cut-up radio fragments, spoken samples and electronic loops are assembled into a continuous sound collage, the second disc given to 'Heart Beat'.

Genres

Descriptors: buzzy, radio, space, sampling, experimental

Tracklist

  1. Information From Audio Science Laboratory
  2. Luna For Electronics & Live Concrete Sounds
  3. Synthesis For ARP 2600 & EMS Synthi A
  4. Music For Marcell Duchamp - Violin For Live Electronics
  5. Speech
  6. Live Cut Up - Radio Music For Inevitable Chance 12-04-93 Version
  7. Live Cut Up - Radio Music For Inevitable Chance 11-04-93 Version
  8. C-Ya! ~ Memories Of Tape Recorder
  9. 4'33"
  10. When Cherry Blossoms Are Blown In The Wind

Credits

  • Kensuke Shiina - noises [oscillator], violin [magnetic tape], electronics
  • Chika Ogawa - drums, steel drums [double second pan]
  • Genichi Tamura - pedal steel guitar, steel drums [tenor pan]
  • Yumiko Ohno - violin, noises [2nd radio], steel drums [triple cello pan]
  • Hideyuki Imai - steel drums [tenor pan]
  • Takagi Kan - synthesizer [ems synthi aks]
  • John Cage - written-by

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