Disinformation at NTT ICC Tokyo

Disinformation DJing for the opening night of the "Phase of Post Music" concert series at NTT ICC, Opera City Tower, Nishishinjuku, Tokyo, 17 February 2000. Special thanks to Minoru Hatanaka. The tracks heard in this mix are "London's Overthrow" by Evan Parker and Disinformation (from the "Al Jabr" CD), "R&D Track 3" (LORAN-C radionavigation signals), a VLF radio recording of electromagnetic noise induced by a Dataproducts laserprinter, accompanied live by square waves from 2 laboratory tone generators found in a skip (dumpster) outside London's South Bank University.

As befits an art gallery sponsored by the Japanese telephone company, the PA for this event was of incredible power and quality (the sub-bass alone was quadraphonic surround sound). The PA signal was recorded direct to video, so the sound here is clean, but barely conveys the true nature of the perceived experience, ie - Brian Duguid wrote in EST magazine that some of the sounds recorded by Disinformation "make you wonder why Merzbow even bother". The video was filmed over the heads of the (seated) audience. According to Minoru, the vibrations rattled glass cabinets all over the museum and brought down ceiling panels in the auditorium. The brand of lager was (I think) Kirin. After the NTT ICC show Philip Jeck, Joe Banks, Mike Harding and saxophonist Rees Archibald performed at The Metro, Kyoto, at the invitation of composer Koji Marutani (of Digital Narcis Records). A very similar performance to the Disinformation vs Evan Parker track was performed at The Dom Moscow (28 Sept 2000) with Mike Walter and Andy Knight on saxophones, and with YBA artist Gavin Turk and Pete Doherty (of The Libertines and The Babyshambles) in the audience.

The NTT ICC events also featured work by Ryoji Ikeda, Marc Behrens, Christoph Charles, Jane Dowe, Max Eastley, Peter Hagdahl, CM von Hausswolff, Phillip Jeck, Brandon LaBelle, Pol Mahlow, Mesmer, Ikue Mori, Carsten Nicolai, Atsushi Sasaki, Minoru Sato, Jio Shimizu, Terre Thaemlitz, David Toop, Toshiya Tsunoda, Satoru Wono and the WrK label.

http://www.ntticc.or.jp/Archive/2000/Phase_of_Post_Music/Events/event01.html
http://www.ntticc.or.jp/Archive/2000/Phase_of_Post_Music/Events/event02.html

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[lagowski]

We all know R.I. is a cock, Joe :-)

[kingkonut]

yeah all my mates r into dis. big up. c u at the end, or fabric

[tobybenedetto]

long live the electronic noise scene. joe, you're a fruitloop

[juntan77]

wtf ?!?!?!

[mauiglassblowing]

trippy !

[Usurps]

Love you baby!

[argoman]

that was great! Do you have more of this?