Toshimaru Nakamura

Toshimaru Nakamura belongs to a small group of Japanese improvisers who in the late '90s dropped whatever they were previously doing to develop a new minimalist music; free improvisation based on silence and tiny gestures. This scene was later dubbed "onkyo" and Nakamura became one of its leading figures, thanks to his regular participation to the improvised music meetings at Bar Aoyama and later at the gallery Off Site. His instrument of predilection is the "no-input mixing board," basically a mixing console wired so that it feeds back into its own input slots, producing feed...