King KICW 1071

Cokorda Isteri Rai Partini (vocal) and Geguntangan; Recorded in 1990 at Puta genung Sari, Peliatan, Gianyar.

Beautifully froggy vocal and bambooish ensemble

Elctra/Nonesuch 9 79204-2

Directed by I Nyoman Artika.
Recorded in Bali, May-October 1987 by David Lewiston.

"In this piece, musicians playing enggung mimic the croaking of the innumerable frogs that inhabit Bali's rice paddies."

Ocora King KICC5743

Côte-d'Ivoire, 1965 & 1967.

"Gêê kpã is masks made only of voices and imaginative imitation of animals."

Nonesuch WPCS-5206

Recorded at the Istana Mangkunegan, Surakarta (1976)

Amphibian skin dissolving and diffusing to the environ, contraction and dilation of deterritorialization.

King KICW1041

Handoyo, Ali Wijaya, Sujana Arja et al. Recorded in 1989 at the Aoi Sudio, Tokyo

Mandarin ducks dreaming of frogs, or vice versa.

Fortuna 17042-2

Dip Tse Chok Ling Monastery, Dharamsara, India (1989)

Rhizomics of life.

Nonesuch WPCS-5110

Lamas and Monks of Pal Phuntsok Chokorling, tashi Jong, Himachal Prsdesh, India (1973)

Basso continuo of life.

King Record SYNCD-077

Kim So-Hee (voice). Recorded in 1995.

Howling and reproachful seagulls.

 

Denon COCQ-83659

Anatoly Vedernikov (piano) recorded in 1969.

Courtship dance of red-crested white cranes.

Harlekijn-Koch 314-005 H1

Niederlander Kammerchor, Schoenberg Ensemble, Reinbert de Leeuw. Recorded in 1986.

Plants in the garden of Klee.

Hungaroton HCD 12503-2

Takacs Quartet

A sleek white marten at night in Yatsugatake mountain.

Albedo ALBCD015

Kenneth Karlsson (piano) recorded in 1998-1999.

Naissance and becoming of bird-musician.

cpo 999 266-2

David Smayers (clarinet) and Susanne Mohr (flute) recorded in 1994.

The naissance of duetting.

RZ1010

Morton Feldman and John Tibury; Klavier (SFB 1971).
Morton Feldman; Klavier (DLF 1978).

Two butterflies in dream flying ahead of me; I am following them all the way without a clue of the existence.

Sub Rosa SR51

Helix Ensemble recorded in 1991.

Fanning and trembling of umbrellas and tentacles of medusa.

BIS CD 1090

Schola Heidelberg directed by W. Nussbaum recorded in 1997.

White flowers of dokudami (Houttunya) like praying in declining sunlight of late summer.

Warner classics 256462162-2

Yvonne Loriod (piano) recorded in 3/1970.

The masterpiece of organic music. This is the authentic recording reissued as CD in "Messiaen Edition".

DG 439-214-2

Anatol Ugorski (piano) recorded in 1994.

The masterpiece of organic music.
Impressible performance of (2) The Golden Oriole, (3) The Bleu Rock Thrush, and (9) Cetti's Warbler.

Arte Nova WDR 74321-2122-2

Martin Zehn (piano) recorded in 2000.

The masterpiece of organic music.
Impressive performance of (7) The Reed Warbler, (10) The Rock Thrush, and (13) The Curlew.

Accord 465-768-2

Roger Muraro (piano) recorded in 1999.

The masterpiece of organic music.
Impressive performance of (1) Alpine Chough, and (3) The Blue Rock Thrush.

 

CP2-108

Paul Zukofsky (violin), Kenneth Moore (conductor), recorded in 1973.

All the flora in field and wood, or the erection of stalks in the microcosmos of slime mould.

 

Kairos 0012162KAI

Klanforum Wien, H. Zender (conductor)

Fauna and flora of marshland.

col legno WWE 20206

Sylvaine Billier, matine Joste, pianos.
Recorded December 21-24, 2000.

A variety of crystaline, delicate silicates.

AGORA AG113

Roberto Fabbriciani (flute and tape)

A magnificent and huge moon moth with pale green fluoresence; the negative of the darkness in a summer night.

hat 6124

Joelle Leandre (double bass, voice), recorded in 1992.

Howling (M...) and slumbering (L...) of an elephant.

Albedo ALBCD015

Kenneth Karlsson (piano) recorded live in 1995.

Gorgeous and flagrant white flowers of evergreen magnolia.

 

stradivarius STR 33598

Mariio Caroli (flauto).
Recorded in April 2001.

A howling coyote.

Accord 465-899-2

Dominique My (piano et direction).
Recording on 1989/12/20 and 21.

Falling and swirling cherry blossoms in wind.

Erato WPCS-11550

Ensemblle Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez (conductor).
Recorded in 02/1984, IRCAM.

An alien and inpenetrable world like foxes with their own dignity, manners and rules.

Victor VZCG-65

Akiko Nishigata (Sangen)

A humming-bird clearwing moth sucking the nectar of gardenia in June evening.

Apriccio 67-116

Maria Graf (harp) and Roswitha Staege (flute) recorded in 2000.

A lotus pond in Jeju Island.

Attacca 9160-3

Rene Berman (cello), Kees Wieringa (piano). Recorded in 1990.

A jeweled tiger beetle (Circindea japonica) flying and landing in front of you like guiding the way in a country road.

ATMA ACD2-2252

Ingrid Schmithusen (soprano), L'Ensemble de la SMCQ conducted by Walter Boudreau. Recorded in 1999.

Lamentations of sea anemone.

Timpani 1C1062

Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, dir. Arturo Tamayo

Lichens like on apinetree in the Hoh stage appear frequently in Japanese paintings as lumps of celadon (or kamenozoki) contrasted with green leaves and brown barks.

Ricordi CRMCD 1001

Daisy Lumini (solista), Gruppo Strumentale Musica d'Oggi, Salvatore Sciarrino (direttore). Premio Italia 1984.

In tropical night garden, "kanahebi" are dancing with wiggling tails in crazily confused amor till dried to death in morning sunshine.

Kyoto KYCH-2014

Takada Kaori (soh), Baba Hiroko (sangen).

Two faces of pheasants, aristocratic and indigenous.

TRITON 17 003

The Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble
Recorded in Mosfilm Studio 1 June 5-7 and 19, 1995.

Tr. 7. Diana in an Autumn Wind: Delicate kusakagero (Chrysopa intima) day-dreaming.
Tr. 8. Senecio: Silvery lichens glistening in dusk.
Tr. 9: Child on Railway Platform: Lonesome ants hearing the revelation.

stradivarius STR 33539

Alter Ego.
Recorded in April 1996.

Killing time and frisking of cubs of Arctic bears.

Finlandia 3984-23407-2

Endymion Ensemble, John Whitfield (conductor). Recorded in 1987-1988.

Blooming and falling of peonia.

Aeon AECD 0104

Groupe Vocal de France, Guy Reibel (direction).
Concert public enregistre auFestival de Metz (1986).

Chorus of cicadas incites all lives to utter.

Fontec FOCD9115

Mayumi Miyata (sho) and Masumi Nagasawa (harp). Recroded in 1987.

A little leaf beetle inside the inflorescence of a yellow tulip.

fontec FOCD3150

Takada, Kazuko (Sangen)
Recorded Nov. 1991.

This bloom is very square and decent, reminding me blossoms of ume (Japanese plum tree) with various shade of pink. I wonder if he was trying to capture the temporarity of blooming.

ETCETRA KTC 1070

Nieuw Ensemble
Brenda Mitchell (soprano)
Recorded between 1988/10 and 1989/03.

Festivals and rituals, buzziness and solemnity of beetles. It reminds me that every creature in Bruegel's paintings exhibits family resemblance to beetles.

ECM New Series 1665 465 136-2

Christian Lindberg (trombone)

The music of the extinct Rhinogradentia, Rhinochilopus musicus, has been reconstituted (ref. Bau und Leben der Rhinogradentia by Harald Stümpke, 1952).

Riccordi Oggi CRMCD 1059

Carmen Maria Carnceci (Dirretoire), Sharon Cooper (Andromeda), Sonia Turchetta (Il drago), Per Vollestad, Carsten Stabell (Perseo), Alvise Vidolin & Paolo Zavagna (elettronica).
Recorded in 1992.

Melodrama of jellyfish.

 

fontec FOCD3150

Takada, Kazuko (Sangen)
Recorded November 1991.

The bark of plane tree in late summer transmutating to howling of beasts in dark forest. Technically quite innovative.

Kairos 0012272KAI

RSO Wien, Beat Furrer, recorded in 1996.

Various protoctistas in the microcosmos of a puddle.

mode 108

Mayumi Miyata (sho) and WDR Sinfonieorchestra, Koeln

Entire oeuvre of John Cage is fungal, characteristics of the contrasts of extremes. Fungi are ubiquitous, everywhere bread are spoiled by Penisilium and Neurospora, while there are some finicky mushroom growing only one or two locals in the world. Fungi are abhorred by people, but what are left in human life, if there are no bread, cheese, wine, sake, soysauce nor much else?

ASV CD DCA 1063

Rusne Mataityte (violin), Margrit Julia Zimmermann (piano). Recorded in 1998.

Wiggle-tails are twisting and dancing in a raining pond.

Delos de 3299

Chen Yihan (pipa).

Bustling army of termites.

Teldec WPCS-10426

Lotus String Quartet recorded in 1998.

Yellow evening primroses are clucking-blooming in dusk of June.

aeon AECD0103

Solistes de l'Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Fahrad Mechkat (direction).
1993/06/11 en concert Salle Olivier Messiaen.

Spiraling swarms of mosquitoes on a subarctic lake.

 

Arte Nova 74321-82556-2

Matius Ziegler (flutes), Dresdner Sinfoniker, Michael Helmrath (conductor).

Trees and shrubs yielding to prairie wind.

 

dacapo 8.224075

Esbjerg Ensemble, Jules van Hessen.
Recorded on May 26,27 and 28, 1997.

In late summer evening over a rivulet in highland, several damselflies are fleetingly dancing and disappeared.

Accord 461-788-2

Francois Kubler (soprano), Armand Angster (clarinette), Walter Grimmer (violoncelle). Recorded in 1995-1996.

Burning desire and fateful encounter of a flower and insects in the last day of summer in highlands.

 

Wergo WER 2056-2

Gerhard Stäbler, Stimme. Nayumi Miytata, Sho.
Johannes Nied, Kontrabass. Thomas Oesterdiekhoff, Schlagwerk.
Recorded in 1998.

A homage to the dominator of Tokyo sky.

 

naive MO782046

Arditti string Quartet
Recorded in February 1997.

Feline dreaming of goldfishes.

 

DG 463 475-2

Hae-Sun Kang, violin.
Electro-acoustic realization: Andrew Gerso.
Recorded in 1999/12 at IRCAM.

Umwelt of bats.

TzadikTZ7218

Yagi Michiyo (koto) recorded in 1998.

Body fluid and tree sap, the image of liquid inside organisms, perspiration and fleight.

 

kairos 0012222KAI

Beat Furrer, Direttore. Klangforum Wien.
Annette Stricker, Soprano. Otto Katameier, Bassobaritono.
Kai Wessel, Contratenore. Simon Jaunin, Baritono.
Recorded in 2000.

Melodrama of lacertids with wiggling tails in a garden at night.

 

Cypres MCY4617

Quatour Danel, recorded in 2002-2004.

A newly-hatched chick is watching spring field with bewilderment and joy. I can hear the resonance of my gene music scale (re-mi-sol-la) in various permutations and rhythmic modulations.

Agora AG275

Roberto Fabbriciani (flute). Recorded in 2000.

Homesickness of a solitary eel.

 

aeon ACD0312

Quatuor Ludwig recorded in 2002.

The ritual of snakes.

 

aeon AECD 0101

Frederique Cambreling (harp)
Recording; 16-17 January, 2001

In late November afternoon at Hibiya Park in central Tokyo. Golden leaves of huge gingko trees are incessantly falling watched by an enfant in a carriage. In surrounding exhibition huts made of bamboo and straw, chrysanthemus are in the final days of bloom.

 

BMC CD 092

Klangforum Wien conducted by Péter Eötvös recorded in 04/2003.

Shadows of white birches on a highland lake.

Accord 476-7200

Ensemble intercontempoain. Recorded in 6/2004.

A symposium of water fleas.

DG 002894775118

Ensemble Intercontemporain, Samuel Favre (percussion), Dimitri Vassilakis (piano), Stefan Asbury (conductor). Recorded in 2/2003.

Capriccio of waterlillies and goldfish and incessantly ovulating dragonflies in a summer pond transmutating to a highland bog covered with sundews where giant salamaders dwell.