Ambient

April 17, 2011--At this moment I'm thinking of making a limited-edition physical objects including these 7 tracks of electro-acoustic music I've made since 2002 to present. Though I like what I've made, I admit that if the album consists of only these tracks it'll be too depressive for my taste. So I'm planning to add some more brighter tracks in order to balance. I'll keep you updated on this project.
(Update, May 9, 2011)I added "March She'll Be in the Forest of American Larch," an electroacoustic piece based on Wilhelm Matthies's improvisation.
(Update, July 9, 2015) The title is changed from "Drafting an album" to "Travelogue 2001-2011."

Travelogue 2001-2011

Drone

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

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]

In 2003 in Kortrijk, Belgium, I met a duo called Lucky Kitchen (Alejandra Salinas and Aeron Bergman) who made lyrical music from field recordings. They were staying there to perform at Happy New Ears Festival. I asked them to help me to make a humble video, which would be titled "we don't tell nuances" based on my field recording of Zagreb, Croatia, in 2001. This is the audio part of the video. They also processed my 'Waterbirds' for this. 
http://www.luckykitchen.com/



we don't tell nuances audio (w/Lucky Kitchen...please see the track video)

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

The Weather Is Not Too Bad

(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

The Weather Is Not Too Bad

Yasuo Akai