Xiang / Otomo Yoshihide CD A waiting room creation – Ftarri
This album contains an hourlong duo performance by Xiang and Otomo Yoshihide at Sichuan University in March 2025, when Otomo visited Sichuan on a tour of China. Both Xiang and Otomo prepared various non-instrument objects and hit, rubbed and scraped them to produce diverse loud and soft sounds. With the additional use of violin by Xiang and a broken guitar by Otomo, the sounds of instrument strings being scraped or rubbed sometimes emerge, but the sounds heard throughout the performance are clattering, banging and rattling noises. Voice, whistling and tongue-clicking sounds are heard occasionally as well. Among Otomo’s works, this kind of album, with such noises as the predominant element, is quite rare. But the distribution and structure of the noises produced by the two musicians and the way these noises spread through the venue space are sublime. Not simply an unusual recording, this is an outstanding and truly valuable document.
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