Yoshiaki Onishi, bass clarinet 
Santiago Beis, saxophone, accordion, and piano
 

Recorded on July 6, 2023 
Recording Engineer: David Myers (Hitt Street Studio, Columbia, Missouri)
Mixed and mastered by Santiago Beis and Yoshiaki Onishi 
 
 
Before leaving Columbia, Missouri, in July 2023, we recorded our album, Inner//Outer. After relocating to the East Coast (Beis in New York, Onishi in Delaware), we took time to master the recordings. Our debut album, Images-After, was released in November 2023, featuring improvisations blending instrumental sounds with excerpts from Zen Kōans. Reflecting on this, we decided to explore different ways of improvising in this album. For example, we dispensed with live electronics in order to allow ourselves to delve deeper into the acoustical properties of each other's playing. The eight tracks from our June 2023 sessions are presented without a specific order, allowing listeners to experience them as they choose. The album's title, "Inner//Outer," reflects our shared interest in exploring the boundary between inside and outside, rather than individual feelings towards it.
 
– Yoshiaki Onishi and Santiago Beis https://linktr.ee/onishibeisduo 
  
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Inner//Outer || Onishi-Beis Duo

Yoshiaki Onishi, bass clarinet
Santiago Beis, saxophone, accordion, and piano

Recorded on July 6, 2023
Recording Engineer: David Myers (Hitt Street Studio, Columbia, Missouri)
Mixed and mastered by Santiago Beis and Yoshiaki Onishi

Before leaving Columbia, Missouri, in July 2023, we recorded our album, Inner//Outer. After relocating to the East Coast (Beis in New York, Onishi in Delaware), we took time to master the recordings. Our debut album, Images-After, was released in November 2023, featuring improvisations blending instrumental sounds with excerpts from Zen Kōans. Reflecting on this, we decided to explore different ways of improvising in this album. For example, we dispensed with live electronics in order to allow ourselves to delve deeper into the acoustical properties of each other's playing. The eight tracks from our June 2023 sessions are presented without a specific order, allowing listeners to experience them as they choose. The album's title, "Inner//Outer," reflects our shared interest in exploring the boundary between inside and outside, rather than individual feelings towards it.

– Yoshiaki Onishi and Santiago Beis linktr.ee/onishibeisduo

© All rights reserved

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Yoshiaki Onishi is a Japanese-American composer, conductor, and clarinetist. As a composer, he is interested in exploring a wide range of instrumental timbres and finding ways to incorporate them in musical syntaxes and forms that disrupt the sense of expectation. He has worked on commissions that have come from such festivals and organizations as Klangwerkstatt Berlin, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Takefu International Music Festival, and Gaudeamus Muziekweek, and his music has been performed by ensembles worldwide, including New Japan Philharmonic, Asko|Schönberg Ensemble, Klangforum Wien, Nieuw Ensemble, Distractfold Ensemble, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Quatuor Diotima and JACK Quartet. He is the recipient of the 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2018 Fromm Commission, and the Gaudeamus Prize 2011. Edition Gravis in Berlin, Germany publishes his music. As a conductor deeply engaged in promoting the music of today, he is Co-Director for the Mizzou New Music Ensemble and was one of the founding members of Ensemble Exophonie Tokyo. Other ensembles he has worked with as a conductor include Nieuw Ensemble of Amsterdam, ECCE Ensemble, Wet Ink Ensemble, Columbia University Orchestra and the University Philharmonic Orchestra of the University of Missouri. Increasingly active as a clarinetist and improviser, he has collaborated with composers George Lewis, Carolina Heredia, Oswald Huỳnh, Bret Bohman, and Andrew Crossley. Together with Santiago Beis, he plays in the Onishi-Beis Duo, an electroacoustic improvisation duo. Onishi received his doctorate in music composition from Columbia University in 2015. He is currently Assistant Professor of Music Composition at the University of Delaware School of Music. 

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