Recording: Sound Of The Mountain with Toshimaru Nakamura and Tetuzi Akiyama

Artist: Sound Of The Mountain with Toshimaru Nakamura and Tetuzi Akiyama

Song: [excerpt]

Recorded at The Music Gallery (X AVANT XIV: Forward – Night 4), October 20, 2019.

Sound Of The Mountain with Toshimaru Nakamura and Tetuzi Akiyama - [excerpt]

Having toured to Japan and back a few times now, it was exciting to see Sound of the Mountain's Elizabeth Millar and Craig Pedersen getting an opportunity to play host to some of the kindred spirits they'd encountered there. Corresponding with a new recording, Toshimaru Nakamura (no-input mixing board) and Tetuzi Akiyama (guitar) joined Pedersen and Craig to expand the SOTM template with some new clonks and whirs — that left more space for them to just play trumpet and clarinet instead of the motors, fans and other electroacoustic interventions that have joined their aresenals. That said, instruments were still disassembled mid-set and contact mics were dragged across their surfaces as the quartet created an enchanting soundfield, pushing the audience to lean in closer to try and figure out just from which musician some of those sounds were emerging.