Ambient

Drone

An improvisation. I mixed Bluthner Style 6 #90513 created by Richard Vossgather and Spitfire Audio Lab's Soft Piano.
The story about Bluthner Style 6 #90513: https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/bluthner-style-6-90513/

Placing Your Flowers in the Window

Needle Ice

An improvisation. I mixed Bluthner Style 6 #90513 created by Richard Vossgather and Spitfire Audio Lab's Soft Piano.
The story about Bluthner Style 6 #90513: www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/bluthner-style-6-90513/

Marginalia

I used Spitfire Studio Woodwinds, Spitfire Studio Strings, Alternative Solo Strings, and Harp from Kontakt Factory Library.

Serenade Followed By The Wind

I used Spitfire Audio Alternative Strings.

Dawn

It Was A Stormy Night When We Drove From Frankfurt To Vienna (Or, Etude after Philip Glass)

Written for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, and Bassoon. I used Spitfire Studio Woodwinds and Brass.

Pastoral

Listening to birds on my balcony

The River at Night

Kyoko Yamamoto (tp.), Mariko Ishigaki (acc.), Takuya Matsumoto (cb.), Michitaka Nakajima (perc.), Yasuo Akai (p.)
Recorded on July 2, 2015, at Kibun-ya, Tokyo.
Photo by Nobuo Kajikawa

El pueblo unido jamás será vencido

A 30 minute dance piece, "Unknown Knowns" created by Partners of Unknown Knowns was premiered on October 17, 2015 at a cafe Sakaiki in Shinjuku, Tokyo. This track is  prerecorded part of the music for it. Yamamoto played the keyboard, and then Akai processed it, adding the guitar, no-input mixer, radio. At the live performance, Yamamoto (trumpet), Mariko Ishigaki )accordion, clarinet), Takuya Matsumoto (bass), Michitaka Nakajima (percussion instruments)improvised and also played written (by Yamamoto)part. See: https://soundcloud.com/yasuoakai/we-repeat-till-the-end-of-the-anthropocene-music-for-unknown-knowns

Unknown Knowns
created by Partners of Unknown Knowns
performed by Nami Gonda (dance), Kyoko Yamamoto (dance, trumpet), Mariko Ishigaki (accordion), Takuya Matsumoto (bass), Michitaka Nakajima (percussion instruments), Yasuo Akai (dance)

See:  http://artandpolitics.oops.jp/unknown/
See the video: youtu.be/rWF4wPIzbpY

Prerecorded part of music for "Unknown Knowns" by Kyoko Yamamoto + Yasuo Akai

A 30 minute dance piece, "Unknown Knowns" created by Partners of Unknown Knowns was premiered on October 17, 2015 at a cafe Sakaiki in Shinjuku, Tokyo. This track is a part of the music for it and recorded at the premiere. Kyoko Yamamoto (trumpet), Mariko Ishigaki(accordion, clarinet), Takuya Matsumoto (bass), Michitaka Nakajima (percussion instruments)improvised and also played written part(by Yamamoto)along with prerecorded track created by Yamamoto and Akai.  See: https://soundcloud.com/yasuoakai/prerecorded-part-of-music-for-unknown-knowns-by-kyoko-yamamoto-yasuo-akai

Unknown Knowns
created by Partners of Unknown Knowns
performed by Nami Gonda (dance), Kyoko Yamamoto (dance, trumpet), Mariko Ishigaki (accordion), Takuya Matsumoto (bass), Michitaka Nakajima (percussion instruments), Yasuo Akai (dance)

See: artandpolitics.oops.jp/unknown/
See the video: youtu.be/rWF4wPIzbpY

We Repeat till The End of The Anthropocene (Music for "Unknown Knowns")

A 30 minute dance piece, "Unknown Knowns" created by Partners of Unknown Knowns was premiered on October 17, 2015 at a cafe Sakaiki in Shinjuku, Tokyo. This track is a part of the music for it and recorded at the premiere. Kyoko Yamamoto (trumpet), Mariko Ishigaki(accordion, clarinet), Takuya Matsumoto (bass), Michitaka Nakajima (percussion instruments).

Unknown Knowns
created by Partners of Unknown Knowns
performed by Nami Gonda (dance), Kyoko Yamamoto (dance, trumpet), Mariko Ishigaki (accordion), Takuya Matsumoto (bass), Michitaka Nakajima (percussion instruments), Yasuo Akai (dance)

See: artandpolitics.oops.jp/unknown/
See the video: youtu.be/rWF4wPIzbpY

Waltz (Music for "Unknown Knowns")

for So (Japanese traditional harp with 13 strings) and piano, performed by Aya Shinozuka (So) and Masako Hosoda (piano), in 1998.

Kawa (River)

Recorded on April 2, 2016, at Cafe Latino in Asakusa, Tokyo.
Kyoko Yamamoto (trumpet, vocal), Mariko Ishigaki (accordion, vocal), Hauka Ii (baritone sax), Takuya Matsumoto (bass), Michitaka Nakajima (percussion instruments), Yasuo Akai (piano, vocal).

Arroz con coco (Lucho Bermudez cover)

Recorded on April 2, 2016, at Cafe Latino in Asakusa, Tokyo.
Kyoko Yamamoto (trumpet), Mariko Ishigaki (accordion), Hauka Ii (baritone sax), Takuya Matsumoto (bass), Michitaka Nakajima (percussion instruments), Yasuo Akai (guitar).

Walking on through the Wind (or, Kaze no naka o yuku, written by Kyoko Yamamoto)

Recorded on October 1, 2016 at Hikarinouma, in Okubo, Tokyo.
Akihiro Suzuki(baritone sax), Kyoko Yamamoto (trumpet), Mariko Ishigaki (accordion), Takuya Matsumoto (bass), Michitaka Nakajima (percussion instruments), Yasuo Akai (Piano)

Años de soledad (Astor Piazzolla cover)

I thank Chris Lynn who sent me his impros/field recordings. It was entitled "Be It So (w. Chris Lynn)" but I found Disquiet (http://disquiet.com/2012/02/06/yasuo-akai-chris-lynn/)explained what "w." stood for, so I corrected:)

Be It So (w/Chris Lynn)

Along the Hillside

Winter Sketch

June, 2017
The score is available directly through me.

Easy Piece For Flute And Harp (MIDI demo)

Originally published by UK-based netlabel Elctronic Musik. http://www.archive.org/details/DiderotsClockManem136

Diderot's Clock Man

Slow Blues

The source audio for this composition is a recording by Luftrum of waves crashing on the shore of Kalundborg Fjord at Røsnæs, Denmark:
 

http://www.freesound.org/people/Luftrum/sounds/48412

I used Magix Samplitude Pro 8.1 for filtering.
 

Let It Speak [disquiet0007-subtract]

Use this as your material if you want

Short Piece for Guitar

2002 distorted accordion, radio, delay, KORG D-9

The Weather Is Not Too Bad

See https://note.mu/yasuoakai/n/nbe5b1b797ddb (written in Japanese)

My Pedagogical Sketchbook 1 (midi demo)

(Releases)
Flogging an Un-dead Horse (CD-R) 
http://irregular.sanpal.co.jp/?p=4305
Diderot's Clock Man (Electronic Musik, 2011, Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0)
http://www.archive.org/details/DiderotsClockManem136
Classwar Karaoke 0017 Survey (Classwar Karaoke 2012, compilation)
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Classwar_Karaoke/0017_survey/
(Writings)
Fill Up the Square, Square the Circle
http://independent.academia.edu/YasuoAkai/Papers/806031/Fill_Up_the_Square_Square_the_Circle

Yasuo Akai

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