Improvised Music from Japan / Discography
Big Ears: Fitzgerald's Manifesto
(Sonic Arts Network) (UK) (CD)
- Tim Steiner - Jingle--Opening (0:23)
Composed by Tim Steiner
- The Children's Choir of Skranevatnet Skolekor - Velkommen (0:58)
Composed by Kirsten Hoybye
Performed by the Children's Choir of Skranevatnet Skolekor
Recorded at Studio 78, Bergen, Norway
Originally issued on Skranevatnet Skolekor
- Otomo Yoshihide - Playgirl (3:01)
Composed by Takeo Yamashita
Recorded at GOK Sound, Tokyo, 1999
Originally issued on Otomo Yoshihide Plays the Music of Takeo Yamashita, on P-Vine Records (PCD-5804)
Kayoko Ishu: vocal
Hiroshi Minami: piano
Sachiko M: sampler
Kayoko Wada: vocal
Kumiko Takara: vibraphone
Otomo Yoshihide New Jazz Quintet
Otomo Yoshihide: synthesizer, guitar
Naruyoshi Kikuchi: saxophone
Hiroaki Mizutani: bass
Kenta Tsugami: saxophone
Yasuhiro Yoshigaki: drums
- Tim Steiner - Jingle--Portuguese Lady [edit] (0:04)
Composed by Tim Steiner
- Hugh Le Caine - The Sackbut Blues (1:19)
Composed by Hugh Le Caine
Source: Hugh Le Caine, Composition Demonstrations, 1946-1974, JWD (JWD 03)
- Tim Steiner - The Mystery Sound (1:36)
- The Mills Brothers - Caravan (2:39)
Music by Juan Tizol; words by Irving Mills
Recorded in 1937
- Ben Vautier - Some Ideas for Fluxus (1:25)
Composed by Ben Vautier
Recorded in 1989
Source: Fluxus Anthology, Zona Archives and Recordings (RT9001)
- The Parlophone Laughing Record--That Kruschen Feeling (3:10)
Recorded in 1923
Originally released as the A side of a 78 rpm record on Parlophone (E 5078)
- Tim Steiner - Jingle--Black Beauty (0:14)
Composed by Tim Steiner
- The Beau Hunks - Smile When the Raindrop Falls (2:19)
Words and music by Alice Keating Howlett and Will Livernash
Recorded at Pottsville Studios, 1992
Originally released on Movies Select Audio (MSA99025)
- Tim Steiner - The Pretentious Mystery Voice (0:43)
- Halim El-Dahb - Venice [extract] (1:25)
Recorded by Halim El-Dahb in 1961
Source: Halim El-Dahb, Crossing into the Electric Magnetic, Without Fear Records (WFR003)
- Frédéric Chopin / Henri Chopin - Nocturne in B Minor / Le Corpsbis (1:39)
Left channel: Frédéric Chopin - Nocturne in B Minor (previously unreleased)
Right channel: Henri Chopin - Le Corpsbis (WDR, 1985)
- Tim Steiner - Jingle--English Lady (0:04)
Composed by Tim Steiner
- Friedrich Jürgenson - Einspielung #15 (1:26)
Composed by Gleb Bojevsky
Recorded by Friedrich Jürgenson in 1963
Source: Friedrich Jürgenson, From the Studio for Audioscopic Research, Parapsychic Acoustic Research Cooperative (PARC CD3)
- Edward Kean - It's Howdy Doody Time (1:36)
Composed by Edward Kean
Theme song of the TV program The Howdy Doody Show, first broadcast December 27, 1947
- Nam June Paik - Etude for Pianoforte (2:48)
Composed by Nam June Paik
Recorded in 1959-60
Source: Nam June Paik, Works, 1958-1979, Sub Rosa (SR178)
- Tim Steiner - The Inkspot (0:41)
- Sol Hoopii - Kohala March (2:37)
Recorded in 1951
Originally issued in 1951 as a 78 rpm record
Re-released in 1987 on Sol Hoopii's CD Master of the Hawaiian Guitar Volume Two, on Rounder (Rounder 1025)
- Leon Theremin - Polyphonic Aetherphon (0:41)
Recorded in 1951
- Otomo Yoshihide - OA-21 (1:00)
Recorded in 1997
Source: Otomo Yoshihide, Vinyl Tranquilliser, Sonic Factory (NAIM 01CD)
- Tim Steiner - Jingle--Two Pairs of Ears (0:07)
Composed by Tim Steiner
- Harry Champion and His Orchestra - A Little Bit of Cucumber (2:49)
Composed by T.W. Connor
Source: Music Hall to Variety Volume 1: Matinée, World Record Club (SH145)
- Louis and Bebe Barron - Nothing like This Claw Found in Nature (1:25)
Composed by Louis and Bebe Barron
Recorded in 1955
Originally issued on the album Forbidden Planet Original Soundtrack, on Small Planet Records (PR-D-001)
- Tim Steiner - Jingle--Montiverdi Drivetime (0:13)
Composed by Tim Steiner
- Animal Imitations (0:58)
Vocal: N'Guni animal impressionist
Recorded by Moses Asch in N'Guni Village, South Africa, 1965
Source: soundtrack of the movie The Naked Prey, Folkways (FS 3854)
- Rob Schwimmer, Uri Caine, and Mark Feldman - The Bookstore (1:00)
Composed by Bernard Herrmann
Recorded in New York City, 1999
From the movie Torn Curtain, directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Originally released in 2000 on Theremin Noir, on November Music (NVR2005-2)
- Philip Corner - Lucinda's Pastime Pt. 3 (2:14)
Composed by Philip Corner
Recorded in 1962
Source: Philip Corner, On Tape from the Judson Years, Alga Marghen (PLANA-C 4NMN.019)
- The Children's Ensemble of the Moscow Chapter of the Union of Official Drivers - Song about Stalin (2:56)
Music by M. Blanter and words by A. Surkova
Conducted by M.A. Alakhverdov
Recorded in 1939
Original issue: USSR 9025/6
Reissued on the CD The Rise of Communism, on Opal (CD 9856)
- Richard Nonas - What Do You Know? (0:21)
Composed by Richard Nonas
Recorded in 1977
Originally issued on the double album Airwaves, on One Ten Records (OT 001/2)
- The Mystery Frog (1:07)
Recorded by Charles Bogart
- Manuel Rocha Iturbide - Chofer Indú (2:30)
Vocal: Indian driver
Recorded by Manuel Rocha Iturbide
Source: Manuel Rocha Iturbide, Boom Box Project, Fundación Bancomer
- Glenn Miller / Tim Steiner - My Melancholy Baby (3:10)
Left channel: Glenn Miller - My Melancholy Baby
Right channel: Tim Steiner - My Melancholy Baby
- The Rhythm Rats Vocal Group - Bring Me Sunshine (2:12)
Music by Arthur Kent; words by Sylvia Dee
Recorded at the Wellingborough Music Centre, June 2004
All recordings were aired between March 2003 and December 2004 on the "Big Ears" radio program, broadcast by the Sonic Arts Network on the London radio station Resonance 10.4 FM. The program was based on Charles Fitzgerald's 1931 manifesto of broadcasting.
Curated by Tim Steiner
Design by Joerg Hartmannsgruber
Includes a 28-page "Broadcasting Manual" with instructions, notes, illustrations, etc., related to the attempt to broadcast according to the principles of Fitzgerald's broadcast manifesto; and a poster with an illustration and the text of Fitzgerald's manifesto
Released in 2005