Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Philip Corner
Manuel Zurria

Joy Flashings

(Die Schachtel, ZEIT C08) (Italy) (CD)


  1. First Travels in the New Millennium [2000] (37:40)
    For solo glissando instrument around a sustained drone tone

  2. Feelings (a Music) [2009] (6:43)
    Version for flutes and drones

  3. Gamelan SITU [2008] (16:23)
    Version for 3 bass flutes and drones

  4. Stravinski Could-be [2008] (5:17)
    Version for toy environmental sounds and iPhone

  5. Joy Flashings [2008]
    Version for toy instruments, piccolos, and children's choir

Recorded, edited, and mixed by Manuel Zurria at SQ & TIN Studios, Rome, and FUN'OM Studios, Fano, between December 2007 and May 2009
Produced by Fabio Carboni and Bruno Stucchi
Cover design by dinamo milano
Includes a 12-page booklet with liner notes by Manuel Zurria in Italian and English and a biography of Philip Corner in English

Released in April 2011