Japanese Postwar Underground Music
1. Advances in Avant-garde art and music:
Gutai
Jikken Kobo (experimental workshop)
Hi Red Center
Group Ongaku
Others
Musique Concrete
- any and all sounds belong in the musical vocabulary
- using recorded sounds along with live ones (sampling)
- importance of play
Stockhausen
Also, today he is involved in The Ensemble Origin
* This also began the use of traditional Japanese instruments in avant-garde music
Rock and Roll Enters:
The Beatles
The Ventures
James Bond Style Music
Group Sounds
Activism and Music Together
Folk Guerilla
- A subset of the folk music scene ensconced in the coffeehouses and bars of Shinjuku
The Tipping Point
The musical "Hair"
- put on in 1970
- preparations took 6 months
- The night before the show was to open, the cast was busted for drugs.
- Free jazzers, rockers, Group Sounds, and performance artists all got to collaborate.
Avant Garde Theater
New Rock
Punk/Noise/Other
Article on Gutai and Hi Red
General Art Happenings Article
Musique Concrete on Wikipedia
Julian Cope's Japrocksampler page
Class CD Listings:
