Improvised Music from Japan / Otomo Yoshihide
Principal Festival and Concert Performances
2000
Adelaide Festival 2000, Adelaide, Australia
- March 16: Improveising the Future--Quarks, curated by David Moss. Oren Ambarchi (electronic guitar), Robbie Avenaim, Jim Denley (flutes, sax, voice), Max Lyandvert (composer), Chris Mann (composer, vocals), Anna McMichael (violin), Stevie Wishart (vocals, hurdy gurdy and electronics), Yoshihide Otomo (turntable, guitar, electronics), David Moss (voice, percussion, electronics), and others
- March 17: Improveising the Future--The Cyclotron, curated by David Moss. Oren Ambarchi, Robbie Avenaim, Jim Denley, Max Lyandvert, Chris Mann, Anna McMichael, Stevie Wishart, Yoshihide Otomo, David Moss, and others
- March 18: Improveising the Future--Waves and Particles, curated by David Moss. Oren Ambarchi, Robbie Avenaim, Jim Denley, Max Lyandvert, Chris Mann, Anna McMichael, Stevie Wishart, Yoshihide Otomo, David Moss, and others
Ring Ring 2000, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
- May 14: Otomo, Sachiko M, and Toshimaru Nakamura
Sonar 2000: Barcelona Internacional Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art, Barcelona, Spain
- June 15: Filament: Otomo, and Sachiko M
Brussels 2000, Belgium
- July 14: Otomo, and Martin Tétreault
- November 6: Filament: Otomo, and Sachiko M
POL Festival, Frankfurt, Germany
Qingdao Jazz Festival, Qindgdao, China
- September 6: Yoshihide Otomo's New Jazz Quintet: Yoshihide Otomo (guitar, electronics), Naruyoshi Kikuchi (sax), Kenta Tsugami (sax), Hiroaki Mizutani (bass) and Yasuhiro Yoshigaki (drums)
Yokohama Jazz Promenade, Yokohama, Japan
- October 7: Park Je Chun (percussion), and Otomo
Densites Festival, Verdun, France
- November 4: Martin Tétreault, Xavier Charles, and Otomo
Evenings of New Music "250 years After," Bratislava, Slovakia
- November 9: Solo
- November 10: John Oswald, and Otomo
1999
mego at ICC: The Future of Techno Music, Tokyo, Japan
- January 15: Symposium. Panelists: Peter Rehberg, Ramon Bauer, Russell Haswell, Mathias Gmachl, and Otomo; M.C.: Atsushi Sasaki
- January 17: Filament: Otomo, and Sachiko M
Taktlos Festival, Switzerland
- March 25: PantyChrist: Bob Ostertag, Justin Bond, and Otomo (in Basel)
- March 26: PantyChrist (in Zürich)
- March 27: MicroCosmos: Tenko, and Otomo (in Basel)
- March 28: MicroCosmos: Tenko, and Otomo (in Zürich)
Impact Festival, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville, Canada
- May 21: I.S.O.: Yoshimitsu Ichiraku, Sachiko M, and Otomo
Le Weekend, Stirling, Scotland
- May 29: Filament: Yoshihide Otomo and Sachiko M
LMC Annual Festival, London, England
- May 30: Filament: Yoshihide Otomo and Sachiko M
Ring Ring '99
Otomo was scheduled to visit Belgrade May 29-30 to perform at the new music festival, Ring Ring '99. Because of the war, however, the festival was canceled. Instead, the festival's organizer has expressed the wish to hold Ring Ring '99 in various locations around the world. In response, and for people who had been looking forward to his performances in the Belgrade festival, Sachiko has decided to designate the following concert appearances as part of Ring Ring '99.
- May 21: I.S.O.: Yoshimitsu Ichiraku, Sachiko M, and Otomo at Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville, Canada
- May 29: Filament: Otomo and Sachiko M at Le Weekend, Stirling, Scotland
- May 30: Filament: Otomo and Sachiko M at LMC Annual Festival, London, England
- June 2: Filament: Otomo and Sachiko M at "le 102" in Grenoble, France
- June 3: Filament: Otomo and Sachiko M in Lyon, France
- June 4: Filament: Otomo and Sachiko M in Saint-Éienne, France
- June 20: Guitar Solo at "in F" in Oizumigakuen, Tokyo, Japan
Music Unlimited, Wels, Austria
- November 5: Turntable Solo
- November 5: Miira ni Narumade: Ko Ishikawa (sho), Michiyo Yagi (koto), Naoko Eto (piano), Andrea Neumann (inside piano), Taku Sugimoto (guitar), Sachiko M (sampler), Werner Dafeldecker (double bass), Günter Müller (percussion, electronics), Fritz Ostermayer (text reading), Silvia Fessler (prompter), and Otomo (conductor)
- November 6: Novo Tono: Seiichi Yamamoto (guitar), Yusuke Nishimura (bass), Masahiro Uemura (drums), Phew (vocal), Naoko Eto (keyboards), and Otomo (guitar, turntable)
- November 7: Guitar Trio: Taku Sugimoto, Keith Rowe, and Otomo
- November 7: Yoshihide Otomo's New Jazz Quintet: Otomo (guitar, electronics), Naruyoshi Kikuchi (sax), Kenta Tsugami (sax), Hiroaki Mizutani (bass), and Yasuhiro Yoshigaki (drums)
1998
New Sight Transition Vol. 1, at Shinjuku Pit Inn, Tokyo, Japan, produced by Otomo
- January 11: Otomo, Yoshiaki Fujikawa, Keiki Midorikawa, Hideto Kanai, Masaaki Kikuchi, Junji Hirose, Masahiko Okura, Ami Yoshida, Tsuguto Tsunoda, Sachiko M, Yasuhiro Otani, Yuta Kawasaki
Musique Action, Nancy, France
- May 23: Catherine Jauniaux, Phil Minton, Zeena Perkins, Christian Marclay, The Roof, Otomo, and others (A Memorial Performance for Tom Cora)
- May 24: Filament: Otomo and Sachiko M
- May 24: I.S.O.: Yoshimitsu Ichiraku, Sachiko M, and Otomo
LE WEEKEND: Get lost in music in Stirling, Scotland
- May 31: I.S.O.: Yoshimitsu Ichiraku, Sachiko M, and Otomo
EXPO '98 in Lisbon, Portugal
- August 8: Carlos Zingaro, Günter Müller, Otomo, and others
Sergei Kuryokhin International New Music Festival in St. Peterburg, Russia
Chicago Asian American Jazz Festival in Chicago, USA
- October 22: Charles Kim, Yasuhiro Otani, Yuko Nexus6, and Michael Hartman, Kevin Drumm and Otomo
1997
Sons Dhiver festival, Paris, France
Japan/U.S. Friends Creative Music Festival, Miami, USA
- March 1-2: Duo with Sachiko M, Keshavan Maslak, and Melissa Maslak
Podewil Guitar Festival, Berlin, Germany
- March 10: Otomo and Sachiko M
Polymachina Festival, Lille, France
- March 12: Otomo and Sachiko M
Angelica Festival, Italy
- May 6: Solo
- May 6 and 11: Ground Zero: Otomo, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Sachiko M, Mitsuru Nasuno, Masahiro Uemura, Yasuhiro Yoshigaki, Yumiko Tanaka, Naruyoshi Kikuchi, and Yoshiaki Kondo
- May 8: P53: Chris Cutler, Lutz Glandien, Marie Goyette, Zygmunt Krauze, and Otomo
- May 10: House of Discipline: Otomo, Bob Ostertag, and Mike Patton
- May 11: Session
International New Music Festival Ring Ring, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
- May 14: Jon Rose Shopping project: Jon Rose, Otomo, and Chris Cutler
- May 15: Ground Zero: Otomo, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Sachiko M, Mitsuru Nasuno, Masahiro Uemura, Yasuhiro Yoshigaki, Yumiko Tanaka, Naruyoshi Kikuchi, and Yoshiaki Kondo
LMC Festival, London, England
- May 24: Ground Zero: Otomo, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Sachiko M, Mitsuru Nasuno, Masahiro Uemura, Yasuhiro Yoshigaki, Yumiko Tanaka, Naruyoshi Kikuchi, and Yoshiaki Kondo (BBC Radio Session)
May 26: Ground Zero: Otomo, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Sachiko M, Mitsuru Nasuno, Masahiro Uemura, Yasuhiro Yoshigaki, Yumiko Tanaka, Naruyoshi Kikuchi, and Yoshiaki Kondo
International Now Music Festival Sapporo, Japan
- September 28: Martin Tetreault, Otomo, Yasuhiro Otani, and Sachiko M
- September 28: My Dear Mummy
- September 28: NOVO-TONO: Phew, Seiichi Yamamoto, Otomo, Yusuke Nishimura, Masahiro Uemura, and Naoko Eto
Music Merge Festival, Tokyo, Japan
- October 3-4: DJ Tranquilizer: Otomo and Yasutomo Aoyama
- October 4: Techno mit Störungen
- October 5: Music Merge Session
Festival Beyond Innocence, Kobe, Japan
- October 10: Otomo and Tsuguto Tsunoda
- October 11: Solo
- October 11: Ruins: Tatsuya Yoshida and Hisashi Sasaki; and Otomo
Future Sound, Switzerland
- December 5: Filament: Otomo and Sachiko M (in Zürich)
- December 6: Filament: Otomo and Sachiko M (in Bern)
1996
Festival Solo, Switzerland (May 8-11)
- May 8: Solo (at Cave 12 in Geneva)
- May 9: Solo (at Le 102 in Grenoble)
- May 10: Solo (at Reithalle in Bern)
- May 11: Solo (at BOA in Lucerne)
Musique Action, Nancy, France
- May 17: Solo
- May 18: Tom Cora, Carlos Zingaro, and Otomo
Nickelsdorf Jazz Festival, Austria
- July 21: Tom Cora, Carlos Zingaro, and Otomo
- July 21: Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris Conduction Number 60: Morris, Hans Koch, Ernesto Molinari, Phil Durrant, Carlos Zingaro, Keith Rowe, John Russell, Stephan Wittwer, Tom Cora, Martin Schütz, Luc Ex, Matthias Bauer, Joelle Leandre, Helge Hinteregger, Oren Marshall, and Otomo
MIMI Festival, France
- July 25: Les Sculptures de Vinyl: Otomo, DJ Rebel, DJ Sky, Erik M, and Sachiko M; and guests Catherine Jauniaux and Tom Cora
Leipzig Jazz Festival, Germany
- September 1: David Moss Survival Song
International Now Music Festival Sapporo, Japan
- September 29: Bob Ostertag and Otomo
Music Merge Festival, Tokyo, Japan
- October 4: Plays Hong Kong Cinema Music: Otomo, Osamu Isoda, Naoko Eto, Sachiko M, Keshavan Maslak, and Kenji Ito
- October 6: Bob Ostertag and Otomo
Festival Beyond Innocence, Kobe, Japan
- October 10: Bob Ostertag and Otomo
Yokohama Jazz Promenade, Japan
- October 13: Hideto Kanai, Keshavan Maslak, Takamochi Baba, and Otomo
Tampere Jazz Happening, Finland
- November 2: Tenko and Otomo
Canaille Festival, Frankfurt, Germany
- November 8-9: Tenko and Otomo
Music Unlimited, Wels, Austria
- November 10: Tenko and Otomo
1995
Urban Aboriginal Festival, Germany
- February 26: Peril
- February 26: Jon Rose Shopping project
Taktlos Festival, Switzerland
- April 2: Otomo and Eye Yamatsuka
- April 2: Ground Zero: Otomo, Masahiro Uemura, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Mitsuru Nasuno, Yasuhiro Yoshigaki, and Sachiko M
Angelica Festival, Italy
- May 2: Jon Rose and Otomo
- May 7: Session
Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville, Canada
- May 22: Ground Zero: Otomo, Masahiro Uemura, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Mitsuru Nasuno, Yasuhiro Yoshigaki, and Sachiko M
- May 22: Dragon Blue: Tenko, Tsuneo Imahori, Otomo, Hideki Kato, and Akira Sotoyama
Musique Action, Nancy, France
- May 26: Dragon Blue: Tenko, Tsuneo Imahori, Otomo, Hideki Kato, and Akira Sotoyama
- May 27: Ground Zero: Otomo, Masahiro Uemura, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Mitsuru Nasuno, Yasuhiro Yoshigaki, and Sachiko M
- May 28: Violin Music in the Age of Shopping: Jon Rose, Chris Cutler, Shelley Hirsch, Sachiko M, Otomo, etc.
Time for Music Contemporary Music Festival, Viitasaari, Finland
- July 8: Jon Rose and Otomo
- July 9: Jon Rose and Otomo
- July 10: Jon Rose and Otomo
International Now Music Festival Sapporo, Japan
- August 20: Ground Zero: Otomo, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Mitsuru Nasuno, Yasuhiro Yoshigaki, Sachiko M, and Yumiko Tanaka
Music Unlimited, Wels, Austria
- November 10: Jon Rose Shopping Project
- November 11: Jon Rose Techno mit Storungen project
- November 12: Solo
1994
Taktlos Festival, Switzerland
- March 25: Jon Rose, Shelley Hirsch, and Otomo (in Bern)
- March 26: Jon Rose, Shelley Hirsch, and Otomo (in Basel)
- March 27: Jon Rose, Shelley Hirsch, and Otomo (in Zürich)
LMC Festival, London, England
- May 28: Jon Rose and Otomo
- May 29: Eye Yamatsuka and Otomo
- May 29: Stock, Hausen & Walkman, Eye Yamatsuka, and Otomo (Encore)
Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville, Canada
- May 20: David Moss, John King, and Otomo
- May 22: Jon Rose Shopping project: Jon Rose, Lauren Newton, Joell Leandre, Chris Cutler, Otomo, and Lee Pui Ming
MIMI Festival, France
- July 10: Dragon Blue: Tenko, Tsuneo Imahori, Hideki Kato, Otomo, and Tatsuya Yoshida
- July 11: Solo
Nickelsdorf Jazz Festival, Austria
- July 16: Dragon Blue: Tenko, Tsuneo Imahori, Hideki Kato, Otomo, and Tatsuya Yoshida
Frankfurt Jazz Festival, Germany
- September 16: P53: Chris Cutler, Lutz Glandien, Marie Goyette, Zygmunt Krauze, and Otomo
Waiting for Jazz festival, China
- October 19: Jon Rose and Otomo
1993
Das Festival in der Röhre, Germany
- May 27: Ground Zero: Otomo, Junji Hirose, Shuichi Chino, Hideki Kato, and Masahiro Uemura
Moers New Jazz Festival, Germany
- May 30: Ground Zero: Otomo, Junji Hirose, Shuichi Chino, Hideki Kato, and Masahiro Uemura
Roskilde Rock Festival, Denmark
- July 4: Peril: Tony Buck, Michael Sheridan, Otomo, and Thierry Fosmale
International Now Music Festival Sapporo, Japan
- August 29: Ground Zero: Otomo, Junji Hirose, Shuichi Chino, Hideki Kato, and Masahiro Uemura
- August 29: Double Unit Orchestra
Hong Kong Independent Music Festival, Hong Kong
- September 3: Tenko and Otomo
- September 4: Xper.Xr, Tenko, Nelson Hiu, Simon Hui, Tats Lau, and Otomo
Tallinn International Festival, Estonia
- October 7: Otomo and Altered States: Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Mitsuru Nasuno, and Yasuhiro Yoshigaki
Vilnius Jazz Festival, Lithuania
- October 9: Otomo and Altered States: Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Mitsuru Nasuno, and Yasuhiro Yoshigaki
Steim Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- October 24: Ground Zero: Otomo, Hideki Kato, and Masahiro Uemura
1992
Sidney International Jazz Festival, Australia
- March 26: Peril: Tony Buck, Michael Sheridan, Hideki Kato, and Otomo
Eternal Will, at Shibuya Beam Hall, Tokyo, Japan
- May 1-10: Sound Session, produced by Otomo
- May 1: Mamoru Fujieda, and Otomo
- May 2: Kazuhiro Nomoto sax quartet
- May 3: Otomo special set
- May 4: Tsuneo Imahori, and Hideki Kato
- May 5: Ground Zero: Otomo, Shuichi Chino, Junji Hirose, Hideki Kato, and Masahiro Uemura
- May 6: Otomo turntables solo
- May 7: Michael Sheridan electric guitar solo
- May 8: Tony Buck drums and electronics solo
- May 9: Ryoji Hojito, Junji Hirose, and Masahiro Uemura
- May 10: Ground Zero orchestra: Otomo (conductor), A group: Naruyoshi Kikuchi, Natsuki Kido, Ryoji Hojito, Joji Sawada, and Tony Buck; and B group: Kumiko Takara, Michael Sheridan, Junji Hirose, Hideki Kato, and Masahiro Uemura
Hong Kong-Japan, Extreme Music Meeting Vol. 1, Hong Kong
- September 29: Solo
- September 29: Shuichi Chino and Otomo
- September 30: Otomo, Shuichi Chino, Tats Lau, Lennon Li, and Renaissance (Elvin Wong, Thomas Chan, and Makin Fung)
1991
The Best of Indies concert, Hong Kong
- April 6: Ground Zero: Otomo, Eric Wong, and Mayfair Z
100 Turntables' Orchestra, Tokyo, Japan
- May 24 and 25: Christian Marclay, Nicolas Collins, Jazzy Joyce, and Otomo
1981
At Goodman, Ogikubo, Tokyo, Japan
- August 13: Otomo, Lim Soowoon, Masao Kato, and Hitoshi Matsufuji (Otomo's first concert as a professional musician)
Last updated: November 10, 2000