Satoshi Kinoshita's Musique Concrète - List of Works

"Play this sound very loudly to sleep/Dream to make your own lyrics to breath/Dream to make your own clothes to dance/Dream to make your own book to burn/Dream to make your own drink to swim/Dream to make your own dream to dream/Dream to make your own mantra to chant/Dream to make your own sound to tape/Dream to play the sound very gently to wake/Meanwhile you can feel yourself /As the part of the space and time in your dream" - Listen To The Color Of Your Dreams by Satoshi Kinoshita, New York City, 2007.

Musique Concrète (French; literally, "concrete music"), is a style of avant-garde music that relies on natural environmental sounds and other non-inherently-musical noises to create music.

Musique Concrète was pioneered by Pierre Schaeffer in the late 1940s and 1950s, facilitated by developments in technology, most prominently microphones and the commercial availability of the magnetic tape recorder (created in 1939), used by Schaeffer and his colleagues for manipulating tapes and tape loops.

PLEASE BE AWARE that all of these tracks contain subtle sonic elements that tend to be poorly reproduced online. We highly recommend that you use external speakers or your headphone jack for listening, and ask that you understand you are hearing only a portion of what the sound artist(s) created. The moderate quality MP3s presented for most tracks comes a bit closer to the artists' intentions, and a few tracks are in relatively high quality MP3. We have, of course, done our best to choose tracks that offer a rewarding experience even within these limits.

Also, note that virtually all the tracks are excerpts of longer pieces.

Liner Notes for Fragmentary Landscape Series
Produced by Satoshi Kinoshita in association with The Glimmer Triplets Productions
Recorded and Remixed by Satoshi Kinoshita in New York City, 2006 & 2007
Engineer: Satoshi Kinoshita
Assistant Engineer: The Glimmer Triplets
Digital Editing and Remastering by The Glimmer Triplets, 2006, 2007 & 2008
Art Direction: Satoshi Kinoshita
Recording Equipment: Sony TCD-D8 DAT Walkman
Microphone: Sony ECM-DS70P
Tape: Sony Professional Digital Audio Tape (DAT)

Click each track name below for sound samples...

LIST OF WORKS

Fragmentary Landscape Vol.1 (2006)
Full length 75:01
Excerpts 04:57 fragment #001
Excerpts 04:57 fragment #002
Excerpts 04:57 fragment #003

Fragmentary Landscape Vol.2 (2006)
Full length 31:42
Excerpts 04:57 fragment #001
Excerpts 04:57 fragment #002
Excerpts 04:57 fragment #003

Fragmentary Landscape Vol.3 (2006)
Full length 09:49
Excerpts 04:58 fragment #001

Fragmentary Landscape Vol.4 (2006)
Full length 20:10
Excerpts 04:36 fragment #001
Excerpts 03:06 fragment #002
Excerpts 04:34 fragment #003

Fragmentary Landscape Vol.5 (2006)
Full length 44:34
Excerpts 04:00 fragment #001
Excerpts 04:00 fragment #002
Excerpts 04:00 fragment #003

Fragmentary Landscape Vol.6 (2006)
Full length 04:12
Full length 04:12

Fragmentary Landscape Vol.7 (2006)
Full length 43:29
Excerpts 05:05 fragment #001
Excerpts 05:05 fragment #002
Excerpts 05:05 fragment #003

Fragmentary Landscape Vol.8 (2006)
Full length 29:42
Excerpts 05:15 fragment #001
Excerpts 04:12 fragment #002
Excerpts 05:15 fragment #003
Peace And Tranquility (Eternity)

Fragmentary Landscape Vol.9
Fragmentary Landscape Vol.10
Work In Progress

Liner Notes: Produced by Satoshi Kinoshita in association with The Glimmer Triplets Productions
Recorded and Remixed by Satoshi Kinoshita in Sydney, 2007/2008
Engineer: Satoshi Kinoshita
Digital Editing and Remastering by The Glimmer Triplets, 2008
Art Direction: Satoshi Kinoshita
Recording Equipment: Sony TCD-D8 DAT Walkman
Microphone: Sony ECM-DS70P
Tape: Sony Professional Digital Audio Tape (DAT)

Pulse - From The Series of Pitch Transpose (2008)
Each track - 02:47, Full length - 25:47
01_Pulse (+7.5)
02_Pulse (+4.5)
03_Pulse (+2.5)
04_Pulse (+0.5)
05_Pulse (0)
06_Pulse (-0.5)
07_Pulse (-2.5)
08_Pulse (-4.5)
09_Pulse (-7.5)

Pulse-to-Pulse Variation (2008)
Full length 79:47
Excerpts 04:57 fragment #001
Excerpts 04:57 fragment #002
Excerpts 04:57 fragment #003

A Hylo-Idealistic Romance 1887 (2007 & 2008)
Recorded and Remixed by Satoshi Kinoshita, 2007 & 2008
Digital Editing and Remastering by The Glimmer Triplets, 2008
Full length 11:59 - Original total running time: 1:23:08
Read by David Barnes
"You can have your secret as long as I have your heart."
This work is based on "The Canterville Ghost" (A Hylo-Idealistic Romance) by Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Bibliographic Notes: First published in 1887, in Court And Society Review, and in the book Lord Arthur Savile's Crime And Other Stories in 1891.
Chapter 1-3 (05:03)
Chapter 4-5 (03:42)
Chapter 6-7 (03:15)
The American Minister and his family have bought the English stately home Canterville Chase, complete with the ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville - blood-stains, clanking chains and all. But these modern Americans will have no truck with ghostly goings-on, and set out to beat the spectre at his own game. (Summary by David Barnes)

Music For Piano Suite 1 (2007)
Satoshi Kinoshita performs his own composition Music For Piano Suite 1 in 2007 at his recording room in Sydney.
The suite is in 4 short, numbered movements.
Satoshi Kinoshita plays YAMAHA C108 Piano.
Recorded on March 31, 2007.
01_Music For Piano Suite 1(05:36)

Pulse-to-Pulse Variation 2 (2008)
Full length 30:00
Excerpts 05:00 fragment #001
Excerpts 05:00 fragment #002
Excerpts 05:00 fragment #003

Drone Music 1 (2008)
Full length 73:17
Satoshi Kinoshita plays YAMAHA C108 Piano for this original "sound".
Excerpts 05:15 fragment #001
Excerpts 05:15 fragment #002
Excerpts 05:15 fragment #003
In music, a drone is a harmonic or monophonic effect or accompaniment where a note or chord is continuously sounded throughout much or all of a piece, sustained or repeated, and most often establishing a tonality upon which the rest of the piece is built.

THE PREFACE by Satoshi Kinoshita (2001)
Dedicated to Lord Henry Wotton
Audio (02:25) - Recorded in 2008

THE creation of beautiful things is the suffering of the artist.

To reveal the artist and conceal art is critic’s dereliction.

The artist is he who can express into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.

The highest, as the lowest, form of criticism is a mode of self-knowledge.

Those who find ugly meaning in beautiful things are corrupt with being vain. This is a fault.

Those who find philosophical meanings in explicit things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

There are the elect to whom beautiful things mean also internal Beauty.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral photograph. Photographs are well taken, or badly taken. That is all.

The moral life of man forms part of the conscious behavior of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.
No artist expects to prove anything. Even things that are true may or may not exist.

No artist has ethical life style. An ethical life style in art is an unpardonable mannerism of reality.

No artist is ever eccentric in his manner. The artist can be an indispensable form in society.

Reflection and expression are to the artist instruments of an art.

Complacency and displeasure are to the artist materials for an art.

All art is at once deceptive and true.

Those who suspect the deception do so at their peril.

Those who believe the truth do so at their peril.

It is the substance, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is passionate, anxious and angry.

When critics agree the artist may not be in accord with himself.

We can forgive a man for making a hopeless thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a hopeless thing is that one admires it intensely.

All art is quite hopeless.

Satoshi Kinoshita

Postscript:Please do not shoot the Pianist. He is doing his best.

Metal Machine Sound (2008)
Produced by Satoshi Kinoshita in association with The Glimmer Triplets Productions
Recorded and Remixed by Satoshi Kinoshita in Tokyo, June/July 2008
Engineer: Satoshi Kinoshita
Assistant Engineer: The Glimmer Triplets
Digital Editing and Remastering by The Glimmer Triplets, 2009
Art Direction: Satoshi Kinoshita
Recording Equipment: Sony TCD-D8 DAT Walkman
Microphone: Sony ECM-DS70P
Tape: Sony Professional Digital Audio Tape (DAT)
Full length 44:50
Excerpts complete #001 (06:50)
Excerpts fragment #002 (10:15)
Excerpts fragment #003 (10:15)

Metal Machine Noise (2009)
Produced by Satoshi Kinoshita in association with The Glimmer Triplets Productions
Recorded and Remixed by Satoshi Kinoshita in Sydney, 2009
Engineer: Satoshi Kinoshita
Assistant Engineer: The Glimmer Triplets
Digital Editing and Remastering by The Glimmer Triplets, 2009
Art Direction: Satoshi Kinoshita
Recording Equipment: Sony TCD-D8 DAT Walkman
Microphone: Sony ECM-DS70P
Tape: Sony Professional Digital Audio Tape (DAT)
Full length 05:50
Complete #001 (05:50)

The Attic Tapes (1979) - Recently discovered early experimental tracks by Satoshi Kinoshita
Satoshi just recently discovered some of his experimental tracks in "the Attic" which was recorded in 1979, Osaka.
Original Sessions Produced, Recorded and Remixed by Satoshi Kinoshita in Osaka, 1979
Recorded by TEAC Model 144 Portastudio
Recording Equipment: Ibanez Les Paul Model Electric Guitar and No Synthesizers (details unknown)
Digital Editing and Remastering by The Glimmer Triplets, 2009
01_Two Sides Of The Moon - a.k.a. Near Side And Far Side (01:44)
02_Audio Feedback - a.k.a. Larsen Effect (04:00)

Metal Machine Sound 2 (2008)
Produced by Satoshi Kinoshita in association with The Glimmer Triplets Productions
Recorded and Remixed by Satoshi Kinoshita in Tokyo, June/July 2008
Engineer: Satoshi Kinoshita
Assistant Engineer: The Glimmer Triplets
Digital Editing and Remastering by The Glimmer Triplets, 2009
Art Direction: Satoshi Kinoshita
Recording Equipment: Sony TCD-D8 DAT Walkman
Microphone: Sony ECM-DS70P
Tape: Sony Professional Digital Audio Tape (DAT)
Full length 09:47
Complete #001 (09:47)

fo.to.me.men.to.frag.men.to - A Sound Collage (2004)
A Sound Collage by Satoshi Kinoshita from his Audio-Visual Slide Show at State Library of New South Wales, Sydney on February 18th 2004.
Completed Version (Full length 22:11)
Edited Version (Full length 20:09) Part1/Part2
Digital Editing and Remastering from the original Compact Cassette by The Glimmer Triplets in 2009.
For educational purposes only. All rights belong to their respective authors/composers/performers.

The Inner Groove (2009)
Art Direction & Concept: Satoshi Kinoshita
Digital Editing and Remastering by The Glimmer Triplets in 2009
Full length 79:56 (An original found sound full length 00:37)
Excerpts fragment #001 (10:45)

Music for Invisible Dancers Variations I (2009/2010)
Produced by Satoshi Kinoshita in association with The Glimmer Triplets Productions
Recorded and Remixed by Satoshi Kinoshita in Kobe and Osaka, December 2009 and September 2010
Engineer: Satoshi Kinoshita
Assistant Engineer: The Glimmer Triplets
Digital Editing and Remastering by The Glimmer Triplets, 2010
Art Direction: Satoshi Kinoshita
Recording Equipment: Sony TCD-D8 DAT Walkman
Microphone: Sony ECM-DS70P
Tape: Sony Professional Digital Audio Tape (DAT)
Full Length Version 12:05
Edited Version 06:53

Numbers Station WSB (2011)
Produced by Satoshi Kinoshita in association with The Glimmer Triplets Productions
Recorded and Remixed by Satoshi Kinoshita in Osaka, January 2011
Engineer: Satoshi Kinoshita
Assistant Engineer: The Glimmer Triplets
Digital Editing and Remastering by The Glimmer Triplets, 2011
Art Direction: Satoshi Kinoshita
Recording Equipment: Aiwa Stereo Radio Cassette Recorder
Microphone: Built-in Microphone
Tape: TDK Normal Position Type 1 Audio Cassette 150 Minutes
Full length 05:15
Complete #001 (05:15)

Music for Invisible Dancers Variations 2 (2009/2011)
Produced by Satoshi Kinoshita in association with The Glimmer Triplets Productions
Recorded and Remixed by Satoshi Kinoshita in Kobe and Osaka, December 2009 and September 2010
Engineer: Satoshi Kinoshita
Assistant Engineer: The Glimmer Triplets
Digital Editing and Remastering by The Glimmer Triplets, 2011
Art Direction: Satoshi Kinoshita
Recording Equipment: Sony TCD-D8 DAT Walkman
Microphone: Sony ECM-DS70P
Tape: Sony Professional Digital Audio Tape (DAT)
Full length 16:07
Complete #001 (16:07)

Metal Machine Noise 2 (2011)
Produced by Satoshi Kinoshita in association with The Glimmer Triplets Productions
Recorded and Remixed by Satoshi Kinoshita in Osaka, January 2011
Engineer: Satoshi Kinoshita
Assistant Engineer: The Glimmer Triplets
Digital Editing and Remastering by The Glimmer Triplets, 2011
Art Direction: Satoshi Kinoshita
Recording Equipment: Apple - MacBook
Microphone: Built-in Microphone
Tape: None
Full length 07:24
Complete #001 (07:24)

Numbers Station Room 30 (2011)
Produced by Satoshi Kinoshita in association with The Glimmer Triplets Productions
Recorded and Remixed by Satoshi Kinoshita in Sydney, February 2011
Engineer: Satoshi Kinoshita
Assistant Engineer: The Glimmer Triplets
Digital Editing and Remastering by The Glimmer Triplets, 2011
Art Direction: Satoshi Kinoshita
Recording Equipment: Apple - MacBook
Microphone: Built-in Microphone
Tape: None
Full length 42:42
Complete #001 (10:40)
Complete #002 (10:40)
Complete #003 (10:40)
Complete #004 (10:40)

Marcel's Dictionary By Satoshi Kinoshita/Plastic Garage Band (2011)
Produced by Satoshi Kinoshita in association with The Glimmer Triplets Productions
Recorded and Remixed by Satoshi Kinoshita in Osaka, March 2011
Arranged by Satoshi Kinoshita with Plastic Garage Band
Engineer: Satoshi Kinoshita
Assistant Engineer: The Glimmer Triplets
Digital Editing and Remastering by The Glimmer Triplets, 2011
Art Direction: Satoshi Kinoshita
Recording Equipment: Apple - MacBook
Microphone: Built-in Microphone
Tape: None
Some Texts from A L'infinitif (1912-1920), read in New York, 1967.
© 2011 Music by Satoshi Kinoshita with Plastic Garage Band
© 1912-1920 Texts by Marcel Duchamp
Full length 04:25 - (Not For Sale)
Complete #001 (04:25)
Alternate Version
Full length 04:25 - (Not For Sale)
Complete #001 (04:25)

Helpless Hiccup by Satoshi Kinoshita with The Glimmer Triplets (2012)

Produced by Satoshi Kinoshita in association with The Glimmer Triplets Productions

Recorded and Remixed by Satoshi Kinoshita in Osaka, December 2011 - February 2012

Assistant Engineer: The Glimmer Triplets

Digital Editing and Remastering by The Glimmer Triplets, 2011-2012

Art Direction: Satoshi Kinoshita

Recording Equipment: Apple - MacBook

Microphone: Built-in Microphone

Tape: None

CD Front Cover Artwork (SKMC_030) by Satoshi Kinoshita, 2011

Full length 04:04

Complete #001 (04:04)
Alternate Version 1
Full length 02:16

Complete #001 (02:16)
Alternate Version 2
Full length 03:49
Complete #001 (03:49)

Alan's Marmalade by Satoshi Kinoshita with The Glimmer Triplets (2012)
Produced by Satoshi Kinoshita in association with The Glimmer Triplets Productions
Recorded and Remixed by Satoshi Kinoshita in Osaka, February 2012
Assistant Engineer: The Glimmer Triplets
Digital Editing and Remastering by The Glimmer Triplets, 2012
Art Direction: Satoshi Kinoshita
Recording Equipment: Apple - MacBook
Microphone: Built-in Microphone
Tape: None
CD Front Cover Artwork (SKMC_031) by Satoshi Kinoshita, 2011
Full length 06:00
Complete #001 (06:00)