Artist: Keiichiro Shibuya
Title: filmachine phonics
Price:$15.00
Catalog #: ATAK010
Released: 2007

 

Tracklisting and preview MP3s:

01 data logi/tm_vertical and diffusion
02 jet horizontal/variation of aggression
03 CA_r18
04 CA_r110/guernica_war piece
05 logistic white haze_invisible film and machine

Two years after his last work "ATAK000", this new album by Keiichiro Shibuya is the first ever three-dimensional music CD, specially designed for headphone listening. While in general surround system the sound moves on the same plane(two-dimensional), in this CD the sound moves up and down, and even obliquely(three-dimensional ). This work has reached a new stage to "compose motion of sounds".
For your best listening environment, this CD also contains AIFF48khz/24bit and mp3 data. Also, it contains three types of screen savers which is easy to install.
Quite honestly, in this century, the evolution of electronics music after digital came into music has been sluggish. We don't really know what are the reasons for this stagnation. I am very happy, however, to welcome the fact that the positive breakthrough came out. Personally, I was feeling that there are no more sounds that provoke thought and drive words. But I am really excited with the possibility explored by Keiichiro Shibuya.
I would like to announce the appearance of the first music of twenty first century, and the new concept of sound, "maximal music," that goes beyond frequency music, digi-coustic, techno minimalism.
It is written in this disc.

Artist: Keiichiro Shibuya + Norbert Moslang + Toshimaru Nakamura
Title: ATAK008
Price:$15.00
Catalog #: ATAK008
Released: 2006

 

Tracklisting and preview MP3s:

01 keiichiro + norbert + toshimaru
02 keiichiro + norbert + toshimaru
03 keiichiro + norbert + toshimaru
04 keiichiro + norbert + toshimaru
05 keiichiro + norbert + toshimaru
06 keiichiro + norbert + toshimaru
07 keiichiro + norbert + toshimaru
08 keiichiro solo
09 keiichiro solo
10 norbert solo
11 norbert solo
12 toshimaru solo
13 toshimaru solo

A very strong collaboration by three leading artists in the forefront of digital, noise and improvisation world music scene. In addition to 7 collaboration tracks, this disc premieres 6 pieces of the individual artists. Stability or instability, digital but analog, human body and computer as a player. Here is a new form of the complex and the kinetic sound.
The exceptional trio of Keiichiro Shibuya(computer, keyboard), Toshimaru Nakamura(No-input mixing board, electric guiter, etc), Norbert Moslang(electronics), now the new album is released. This disc is of the session during their tour to Japan, Swiss sound artists joined session, ATAK NIGHT 2, in Tokyo this March and later intensively elaborated in postproduction. This disc is to be called a true collaboration.
Moslang uses his original infrared equipments to create an unexplored, high-detailed sound. Besides, Nakamura has been always flying around the top of the improvisation world and Shibuya is a founder of ATAK, the most strategic and conceptual sound art label. There is no easy sound. Imagine how high-dense sound the three virtuosos produce together. The folds of microscopic sound and the sonorite continues to crash and polish at the same time.
It is not an additive performance or improvisation, however. It is the change and the challenge by the music alchemy
This disc also includes two solo pieces by each performer. Having the aesthetic of modulation and extinction, the new tracks of Toshimaru Nakamura provides us an wonderful time. The tracks of Keiichiro Shibuya derive from “the third term music theory,” his recent collaboration study with Takashi Ikegami, a complexity science scholar. However, Shibuya seems to avoid translation of the theory into music, but generates only the superb sounds as a result of the alchemic process. As if a moment differentiated, it's brilliant this time is invisible.

Artist: Yuji Takahashi + Keiichiro Shibuya + Maria
Title: ATAK007
Price:$15.00
Catalog #: ATAK007
Released: 2005

 

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This disc is of the concert "dub lilac" performed by Yuji Takahashi (piano, computer, voice), Keiichiro Shibuya (keyboard, computer) and maria (computer) took place at PITINN in Tokyo in October 2005. This disc is the one of their best works in that they try to cross between the compositional fine performance and more improvisational work using computer technology. As compositional, Takahashi's masterpiece, The Pain of the Wandering Wind (1981), Joseph Hauer's pieces by Takahashi on piano, and Schoenberg and Cage by Shibuya on prophet 5. As technological, the session was recorded in high quality, 96khz, 32bit. Shibuya later elaborated on sound quality and recomposed 20 tracks (55min58sec).
A piano as "An old, questionable wooden box that pulls out the sound closed inside." And a computer as a questionable small box that pulls out another sound.
There was filled with the freely played sound. And the played music regains the sound. It is the music as if a hand pulled the sound out of the box and the sound transformed into the sky. Sometimes, some pieces of music are played, but they crash and turn into another sound. The echo vanishes into an empty sky. There is a freedom of play. This is a record of their sound trial over the questionable box.

Artist: Yuji Takahashi
Title: ATAK006
Price:$15.00
Catalog #: ATAK006
Released: 2005

 

Tracklisting and preview MP3s:

01 gs-portrait
02 dctnzlgr
03 dsvgrt
04 wktnwb
05 hptn
06 krzlgch
07 kumo-rinzetsu
08 und flieder in die sonne
09 time

12 years after his Kageri, Takahashi's new full-length album is gorgeous, comprehensive, contentious and innovative. It includes his masterpieces from the past: TIME (1963), a rare musique concrete (electro music edited on tape), which was scored for animation by Hiroshi Manabe, Fleider in Die Sonne (1989), computer-generated music over Takahashi's reading of text by Kafka, kumo-rinzetsu 260795 (1995), and live music performed in 2000 (gs-porttait is highly recommended).
comments:
16 years ago when I was a high school student, I listened to Fleider in Die Sonne (1989) at a concert hall in Yuraku-cho. I remember Yuji's performance so well. A lot of questions came up within my mind, "Is that music?" "Text?" "Or neither?" "What is it then?" and ended up with a tremendous impression, "Who is he, what is Yuji Takahashi?"
Yuji's computer-based works are remarkably fine in recent years. I was telling my friends that someone should release the CD, and tried to introduce some labels in Europe. And, this year when I listened to gs-portrait (2005), I decided to release the CD from my own label, ATAK.
There was a circle of time. I was happy to find a link in between his old and new works. As we discussed about the contents of the album, we arranged to include his maiden-work TIME (1963) because it should be a surprise that Yuji was making the same music 42 years ago.
I am pleased to release this CD from my label and believe that this is one of his best albums. It will sound fresh even after 42 years.

Artist: Keiichiro Shibuya
Title: ATAK000
Price:$15.00
Catalog #: ATAK000
Released: 2004

 

Tracklisting and preview MP3s:

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Who said? Mathematics is not an art.
Who said? Calculation is not a creation.
Who said? Physics is not a mystery.
Who said? Human labor and the organic are heading in opposite directions.
A permanent feud exists between logic ruling the world and ideas forming the world.
Who said beauty was not able to arise from there?
Strictness, exactness and calculation never contradict emotional sensation.
Sounds are the numbers and sounds are things. A new journey launches when you realize this.
Who said? It is not music.
The movement through the Sine Wave Renaissance to the Click & Cuts/Glitch Revolution generated a powerful drive shaping the history of electronic music. And this is the perfect integration of all of the elements generated through this movement.
Infinite "music" pulses in the particles and structures of sound; this album is the highest masterpiece of "real" Composer, Shibuya Keiichiro.