Marginal Consort

	Marginal Consort Marginal Consort is a Japanese collective/ free improvisation group made of sound and visual artists, who have played one concert annually since 1997. The group originally grew out of the East Bionic Symphonia, who recorded one album in 1976. The members are Kazuo Imai (今井和雄), Yasushi Ozawa (小沢靖) (also a member of Fushitsusha Fushitsusha (不失者) is a Japanese rock band specialising in experimental and psychedelic rock genres. The band consists of electric guitarist and singer Keiji Haino, and a shifting cast of complementary musicians. The group released the majo ...), Tomonao Koshikawa　(越川知尚), Kei Shii (椎啓), and Masami Tada (多田正美). Chie Mukai participated in the first two concerts, but no longer plays with the group. Discography ''East Bionic Symphonia'' (Kojima, 1976) ''Collective Improvisation'' (PSF, 1998) ''Marginal Consort'' 4CD (Improvised Music from Japan, 2007) ''Glasgow 17th Feb 2008'' 4LP (PAN, 2013) References Kazuo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Marginal Marginal may refer to: * ''Marginal'' (album), the third album of the Belgian rock band Dead Man Ray, released in 2001 * ''Marginal'' (manga) * '' El Marginal'', Argentine TV series * Marginal seat or marginal constituency or marginal, in politics See also Economics * Marginalism * Marginal analysis Marginal concepts Marginal cost * Marginal demand Marginal product Marginal product of labor Marginal propensity to consume Marginal rate of substitution * Marginal use Marginal utility Marginal rate Other * Margin (other) * Marginalization * Marginal intra-industry trade, where the change in a country's exports are essentially of the same products as its change in imports * Marginal land, land that is of little value because of its unsuitability for growing crops and other uses * Marginal model, in hierarchical linear modeling * Marginal observables, in physics; see Renormalization group * Marginal person, in sociology; see Marginalization * Marginal plant, see ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Free Improvisation Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the logic or inclination of the musician(s) involved. The term can refer to both a technique (employed by any musician in any genre) and as a recognizable genre in its own right. Free improvisation, as a genre of music, developed in the U.S. and Europe in the mid to late 1960s, largely as an outgrowth of free jazz and modern classical musics. Exponents of free improvised music include saxophonists Evan Parker, Anthony Braxton, Peter Brötzmann, and John Zorn, composer Pauline Oliveros, drummer Christian Lillinger, trombonist George E. Lewis, guitarists Derek Bailey, Henry Kaiser and Fred Frith and the improvising groups Spontaneous Music Ensemble, The Music Improvisation Company, Iskra 1903, The Art Ensemble of Chicago and AMM. Characteristics In an atonal context, free improvisation refers to where the focus shifts from harmony to other dimensions of music: timbre, melodic intervals, rhythm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Kazuo Imai is a Tokyo-based guitarist who plays in a rigorous and original free improvisation idiom. His music joins the rigour and texture of contemporary classical with the passion of free jazz. He has played with many Western and Japanese improvisers, including Lee Konitz, Barre Phillips, Arthur Doyle, Han Bennink, Irene Schweizer, Shuichi Chino, Tetsu Saitoh and Kazue Sawai. In addition to playing solo and in collaborations, Imai is also a member of the important collective improvisation group Marginal Consort. As well as guitar, Imai also plays viola da gamba. History Born in Kawasaki in 1955, Imai studied with two of post-war Japan's leading musical iconoclasts, Takehisa Kosugi and Masayuki Takayanagi. Imai studied under Kosugi at the Bigakko art school from 1975, and as a graduation project he participated in the East Bionic Symphonia collective improvisation performance and recording. Kosugi invited Imai to play with his well-known mixed media In visual art, mixed media des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Yasushi Ozawa (1958February 2, 2008) was a Japanese musician and sound engineer, best known as the bassist in Keiji Haino's rock group Fushitsusha. He was also a member of the free improvisation group Marginal Consort, and in the past he played with East Bionic Symphonia and Machine-Gun Tango (with Tori Kudo). Discography ''East Bionic Symphonia'' (Kojima, 1976) V.A., ''Aiyoku jinmin juji gekijo'' (Pinakotheca, 1980) ''Collective Improvisation'' (PSF, 1998) ''Marginal Consort'' 4CD (Improvised Music from Japan, 2007) ''Early Works of Satoshi Sonoda 1977→1978 / Memories of Yasushi Ozawa'' (PSF, 2009) with Fushitsusha Untitled (PSF, 1989) Untitled (PSF, 1991) Allegorical Misunderstanding ''Allegorical Misunderstanding'' is a 1993 album by the band Fushitsusha. The album was produced by John Zorn and was the first studio album from the band. Critical reception In a review for AllMusic, John Dougan called the album "a reserved outi ... (Avant, 1993) Pathetique lso known as Hisou( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Fushitsusha Fushitsusha (不失者) is a Japanese rock band specialising in experimental and psychedelic rock genres. The band consists of electric guitarist and singer Keiji Haino, and a shifting cast of complementary musicians. The group released the majority of its material in the 1990s. History Haino formed Fushitsusha in 1978, although their first LP was not released until 1989. The band initially consisted of Haino on guitar and vocals, and Tamio Shiraishi on synthesizer. After the departure of Shiraishi, Ayuo joined briefly in 1979 before Fushitsusha became a trio with the addition of Jun Hamano (bass) and Shuhei Takashima (drums). The lineup soon changed, adding Yasushi Ozawa (bass) and Jun Kosugi (drums) throughout the 1990s. Their 1993 album '' Allegorical Misunderstanding'' was released on John Zorn's record label, Avant, although most of their albums have come out on independent label PSF and on major label Tokuma. Fushitsusha recently returned to duo status, with Haino supple ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Kei Shii Kei may refer to: People * Kei (given name) * Kei, Cantonese for Ji(姫) * Kei, Cantonese for Qi(奇, 祁, 亓) * Shō Kei (1700–1752), king of the Ryūkyū Kingdom * Kei (singer) (born 1995), stage name of South Korean singer Kim Ji-yeon * Princess Kei (Keihime) of Japan * Kei Nishikori, Japanese professional tennis player Automobiles Kei car, a Japanese category of small automobiles Suzuki Kei, a kei car produced by Suzuki between 1998 and 2009 * Kei truck, a tiny RWD or 4WD pickup truck in Japan In fiction * xxxHolic: Kei, the second season of the anime Sir Kei or Sir Kay, a character in Arthurian legend Kei, a character in ''Akira'' media Kei, a character in ''Dirty Pair'' media Kei, a character in the ''Ape Escape'' universe Kei, a fictional country in ''Twelve Kingdoms'' media Kei, a character in ''Moon Child'' Kei Nagase, a character in the ''Ace Combat'' universe Kei, short for Keiichiro, a character in '' Wangan Midnight'' and Wangan Midnight Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Masami Tada is a common Japanese given name and can be given to either sex. Possible writings 惟美, meaning "Considerate beauty" 真己, meaning "True self" or "Truth, Snake" 昌美, meaning "Prosperous beauty" 雅美, meaning "Gracious beauty" 成美, meaning "Become beautiful" マサミ in (katakana) まさみ in (hiragana) People with the name Masami Akita (秋田昌美), Japanese Noise musician Masami Anno, Japanese director of the anime series ''Chūka Ichiban!'' which is based on the manga series of the same name Masami Hirosaka (広坂正美), Japanese radio-controlled car racer Masami Horiuchi (堀内正美), Japanese actor , Japanese alpine skier * Masami Kikuchi (菊池正美), Japanese voice actor Masami Kobayashi (小林仁, 1890-1977), admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II Masami Kubota, Japanese former gymnast who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics Masami Kurumada (車田正美), Japanese writer and manga artist known for his w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Chie Mukai is a female Japanese composer and musician, best known for her underground improv-folk group Ché-SHIZU. She has been involved in improvised performance since 1975, when she participated in the East Bionic Symphonia group, a graduation project for students of Takehisa Kosugi at the Bigakko art school in Tokyo. Her primary instrument is the bowed Chinese er-hu, although she is also a vocalist, and plays piano and percussion. Every year she organizes the Perspective Emotion mixed media arts festival in Tokyo. She has been frequently collaborating with Kenya Kawaguchi, Masayoshi Urabe, Seiichi Yamamoto since 2010. Discography Solo ''Kokyu Improvisation'' (胡弓インプロヴィゼイション) CD (PSF, 1990) CD ''Three pieces, solo improvisations'' LP (Siwa, 2000; CD, 2007) ''Crossing'' CDR (there, 2004) V.A., ''Somethings #1'' CD (Last Visible Dog, 2007) Ché-SHIZU ''Yakusoku wa dekinai'' (約束はできない) LP (zero records, 1984; CD reissue on Alchemy Records, 2001) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Japanese Rock Music Groups Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspora, Japanese emigrants and their descendants around the world * Japanese citizens, nationals of Japan under Japanese nationality law ** Foreign-born Japanese, naturalized citizens of Japan * Japanese writing system, consisting of kanji and kana * Japanese cuisine, the food and food culture of Japan See also * List of Japanese people * * Japonica (other) * Japonicum * Japonicus * Japanese studies Japanese studies (Japanese: ) or Japan studies (sometimes Japanology in Europe), is a sub-field of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on Japan. It incorporates fields such as the study of Japanese ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Musical Groups Established In 1997 Musical is the adjective of music. Musical may also refer to: * Musical theatre, a performance art that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance * Musical film and television, a genre of film and television that incorporates into the narrative songs sung by the characters * MusicAL, an Albanian television channel * Musical isomorphism, the canonical isomorphism between the tangent and cotangent bundles See also * Lists of musicals * Music (other) * Musica (other) * Musicality Musicality (''music-al -ity'') is "sensitivity to, knowledge of, or talent for music" or "the quality or state of being musical", and is used to refer to specific if vaguely defined qualities in pieces and/or genres of music, such as melodiousness ... , the ability to perceive music or to create music * {{Music disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]

	Marginal Consort Marginal Consort is a Japanese collective/ free improvisation group made of sound and visual artists, who have played one concert annually since 1997. The group originally grew out of the East Bionic Symphonia, who recorded one album in 1976. The members are Kazuo Imai (今井和雄), Yasushi Ozawa (小沢靖) (also a member of Fushitsusha Fushitsusha (不失者) is a Japanese rock band specialising in experimental and psychedelic rock genres. The band consists of electric guitarist and singer Keiji Haino, and a shifting cast of complementary musicians. The group released the majo ...), Tomonao Koshikawa　(越川知尚), Kei Shii (椎啓), and Masami Tada (多田正美). Chie Mukai participated in the first two concerts, but no longer plays with the group. Discography ''East Bionic Symphonia'' (Kojima, 1976) ''Collective Improvisation'' (PSF, 1998) ''Marginal Consort'' 4CD (Improvised Music from Japan, 2007) ''Glasgow 17th Feb 2008'' 4LP (PAN, 2013) References Kazuo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Marginal Marginal may refer to: * ''Marginal'' (album), the third album of the Belgian rock band Dead Man Ray, released in 2001 * ''Marginal'' (manga) * '' El Marginal'', Argentine TV series * Marginal seat or marginal constituency or marginal, in politics See also Economics * Marginalism * Marginal analysis Marginal concepts Marginal cost * Marginal demand Marginal product Marginal product of labor Marginal propensity to consume Marginal rate of substitution * Marginal use Marginal utility Marginal rate Other * Margin (other) * Marginalization * Marginal intra-industry trade, where the change in a country's exports are essentially of the same products as its change in imports * Marginal land, land that is of little value because of its unsuitability for growing crops and other uses * Marginal model, in hierarchical linear modeling * Marginal observables, in physics; see Renormalization group * Marginal person, in sociology; see Marginalization * Marginal plant, see ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Free Improvisation Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the logic or inclination of the musician(s) involved. The term can refer to both a technique (employed by any musician in any genre) and as a recognizable genre in its own right. Free improvisation, as a genre of music, developed in the U.S. and Europe in the mid to late 1960s, largely as an outgrowth of free jazz and modern classical musics. Exponents of free improvised music include saxophonists Evan Parker, Anthony Braxton, Peter Brötzmann, and John Zorn, composer Pauline Oliveros, drummer Christian Lillinger, trombonist George E. Lewis, guitarists Derek Bailey, Henry Kaiser and Fred Frith and the improvising groups Spontaneous Music Ensemble, The Music Improvisation Company, Iskra 1903, The Art Ensemble of Chicago and AMM. Characteristics In an atonal context, free improvisation refers to where the focus shifts from harmony to other dimensions of music: timbre, melodic intervals, rhythm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Kazuo Imai is a Tokyo-based guitarist who plays in a rigorous and original free improvisation idiom. His music joins the rigour and texture of contemporary classical with the passion of free jazz. He has played with many Western and Japanese improvisers, including Lee Konitz, Barre Phillips, Arthur Doyle, Han Bennink, Irene Schweizer, Shuichi Chino, Tetsu Saitoh and Kazue Sawai. In addition to playing solo and in collaborations, Imai is also a member of the important collective improvisation group Marginal Consort. As well as guitar, Imai also plays viola da gamba. History Born in Kawasaki in 1955, Imai studied with two of post-war Japan's leading musical iconoclasts, Takehisa Kosugi and Masayuki Takayanagi. Imai studied under Kosugi at the Bigakko art school from 1975, and as a graduation project he participated in the East Bionic Symphonia collective improvisation performance and recording. Kosugi invited Imai to play with his well-known mixed media In visual art, mixed media des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Yasushi Ozawa (1958February 2, 2008) was a Japanese musician and sound engineer, best known as the bassist in Keiji Haino's rock group Fushitsusha. He was also a member of the free improvisation group Marginal Consort, and in the past he played with East Bionic Symphonia and Machine-Gun Tango (with Tori Kudo). Discography ''East Bionic Symphonia'' (Kojima, 1976) V.A., ''Aiyoku jinmin juji gekijo'' (Pinakotheca, 1980) ''Collective Improvisation'' (PSF, 1998) ''Marginal Consort'' 4CD (Improvised Music from Japan, 2007) ''Early Works of Satoshi Sonoda 1977→1978 / Memories of Yasushi Ozawa'' (PSF, 2009) with Fushitsusha Untitled (PSF, 1989) Untitled (PSF, 1991) Allegorical Misunderstanding ''Allegorical Misunderstanding'' is a 1993 album by the band Fushitsusha. The album was produced by John Zorn and was the first studio album from the band. Critical reception In a review for AllMusic, John Dougan called the album "a reserved outi ... (Avant, 1993) Pathetique lso known as Hisou( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Fushitsusha Fushitsusha (不失者) is a Japanese rock band specialising in experimental and psychedelic rock genres. The band consists of electric guitarist and singer Keiji Haino, and a shifting cast of complementary musicians. The group released the majority of its material in the 1990s. History Haino formed Fushitsusha in 1978, although their first LP was not released until 1989. The band initially consisted of Haino on guitar and vocals, and Tamio Shiraishi on synthesizer. After the departure of Shiraishi, Ayuo joined briefly in 1979 before Fushitsusha became a trio with the addition of Jun Hamano (bass) and Shuhei Takashima (drums). The lineup soon changed, adding Yasushi Ozawa (bass) and Jun Kosugi (drums) throughout the 1990s. Their 1993 album '' Allegorical Misunderstanding'' was released on John Zorn's record label, Avant, although most of their albums have come out on independent label PSF and on major label Tokuma. Fushitsusha recently returned to duo status, with Haino supple ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Kei Shii Kei may refer to: People * Kei (given name) * Kei, Cantonese for Ji(姫) * Kei, Cantonese for Qi(奇, 祁, 亓) * Shō Kei (1700–1752), king of the Ryūkyū Kingdom * Kei (singer) (born 1995), stage name of South Korean singer Kim Ji-yeon * Princess Kei (Keihime) of Japan * Kei Nishikori, Japanese professional tennis player Automobiles Kei car, a Japanese category of small automobiles Suzuki Kei, a kei car produced by Suzuki between 1998 and 2009 * Kei truck, a tiny RWD or 4WD pickup truck in Japan In fiction * xxxHolic: Kei, the second season of the anime Sir Kei or Sir Kay, a character in Arthurian legend Kei, a character in ''Akira'' media Kei, a character in ''Dirty Pair'' media Kei, a character in the ''Ape Escape'' universe Kei, a fictional country in ''Twelve Kingdoms'' media Kei, a character in ''Moon Child'' Kei Nagase, a character in the ''Ace Combat'' universe Kei, short for Keiichiro, a character in '' Wangan Midnight'' and Wangan Midnight Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Masami Tada is a common Japanese given name and can be given to either sex. Possible writings 惟美, meaning "Considerate beauty" 真己, meaning "True self" or "Truth, Snake" 昌美, meaning "Prosperous beauty" 雅美, meaning "Gracious beauty" 成美, meaning "Become beautiful" マサミ in (katakana) まさみ in (hiragana) People with the name Masami Akita (秋田昌美), Japanese Noise musician Masami Anno, Japanese director of the anime series ''Chūka Ichiban!'' which is based on the manga series of the same name Masami Hirosaka (広坂正美), Japanese radio-controlled car racer Masami Horiuchi (堀内正美), Japanese actor , Japanese alpine skier * Masami Kikuchi (菊池正美), Japanese voice actor Masami Kobayashi (小林仁, 1890-1977), admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II Masami Kubota, Japanese former gymnast who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics Masami Kurumada (車田正美), Japanese writer and manga artist known for his w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Chie Mukai is a female Japanese composer and musician, best known for her underground improv-folk group Ché-SHIZU. She has been involved in improvised performance since 1975, when she participated in the East Bionic Symphonia group, a graduation project for students of Takehisa Kosugi at the Bigakko art school in Tokyo. Her primary instrument is the bowed Chinese er-hu, although she is also a vocalist, and plays piano and percussion. Every year she organizes the Perspective Emotion mixed media arts festival in Tokyo. She has been frequently collaborating with Kenya Kawaguchi, Masayoshi Urabe, Seiichi Yamamoto since 2010. Discography Solo ''Kokyu Improvisation'' (胡弓インプロヴィゼイション) CD (PSF, 1990) CD ''Three pieces, solo improvisations'' LP (Siwa, 2000; CD, 2007) ''Crossing'' CDR (there, 2004) V.A., ''Somethings #1'' CD (Last Visible Dog, 2007) Ché-SHIZU ''Yakusoku wa dekinai'' (約束はできない) LP (zero records, 1984; CD reissue on Alchemy Records, 2001) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Japanese Rock Music Groups Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspora, Japanese emigrants and their descendants around the world * Japanese citizens, nationals of Japan under Japanese nationality law ** Foreign-born Japanese, naturalized citizens of Japan * Japanese writing system, consisting of kanji and kana * Japanese cuisine, the food and food culture of Japan See also * List of Japanese people * * Japonica (other) * Japonicum * Japonicus * Japanese studies Japanese studies (Japanese: ) or Japan studies (sometimes Japanology in Europe), is a sub-field of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on Japan. It incorporates fields such as the study of Japanese ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Musical Groups Established In 1997 Musical is the adjective of music. Musical may also refer to: * Musical theatre, a performance art that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance * Musical film and television, a genre of film and television that incorporates into the narrative songs sung by the characters * MusicAL, an Albanian television channel * Musical isomorphism, the canonical isomorphism between the tangent and cotangent bundles See also * Lists of musicals * Music (other) * Musica (other) * Musicality Musicality (''music-al -ity'') is "sensitivity to, knowledge of, or talent for music" or "the quality or state of being musical", and is used to refer to specific if vaguely defined qualities in pieces and/or genres of music, such as melodiousness ... , the ability to perceive music or to create music * {{Music disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]