Credits:

Ichiyanagi Toshi

Description:

The long-lost work Form Is Emptiness, Emptiness Is Form, whose original tape had been gathering dust at a New York publishing house for years, is being released for the first time! Although details are unknown beyond the fact that it was created at the NHK Electronic Music Studio in 1964, it is undoubtedly Ichiyanagis finest piece of pure electronic music. It appears that, at the request of the producer at the time, it was broadcast under the title K (Emptiness). Additionally, in 2014, OMEGAPOINT released Extended Voices (OPX-013), which mixed the voice of baritone Kei Matsudaira with the original monaural tape track. (OPX-013), which mixed baritone Kei Matsudairas vocals with the original monaural tape track. However, since a stereo version was subsequently discovered, we have decided to include it here as a tape work without vocals. This piece can be considered a fully realized work of el