Various – AMPLIFY 2002 | Balance (7CD box)
Various – AMPLIFY 2002 | Balance (7CD box)

Various – AMPLIFY 2002 | Balance (7CD box)

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Label: Erstwhile Records – erstwhile 033-040
Format: 7 x CD
DVD, DVD-Video Box Set
Country: US
Released: 2003
Genre: Electronic, Non-Music
Style: Abstract, Free Improvisation, Experimental, Interview

Document of the 2002 Amplify festival in Tokyo curated by Erstwhile's Jon Abbey. Disc 1 and 7 are smaller club shows that took place outside the Festival proper, disc 2 is a studio session that took place around the time of the festival and discs 3-6 feature eight of the twelve sets that took place at the Amplify festival October 18th through the 20th at Star Pine's Cafe in Kichijoji, Tokyo. 

erstwhile 040, also included in the box, is a DVD entitled "balance beams" that documents the festival, including video of the performances, interviews with the participants and shots of the surrounding area. 

Also included is a 48-page booklet in full color with notes from the participants and photographs from the concerts. 

Discs packaged in six Digipaks held in a cardboard slipcase within a second cardboard slipcase.

Tracklist
Outside Shows    
CD1-1    Thomas Lehn / Toshimaru Nakamura–    Untitled    13:12
CD1-2    Tetuzi Akiyama / Günter Müller / Nakamura*–    Untitled    19:20
CD1-3    Christof Kurzmann / Nakamura*–    Untitled    24:08
CD1-4    Lehn* / Nakamura* / Taku Sugimoto–    Untitled    13:20
Tint    
CD2-1    Günter Müller / Toshimaru Nakamura–    .tint    4:51
CD2-2    Günter Müller / Toshimaru Nakamura–    ..tint    4:58
CD2-3    Günter Müller / Toshimaru Nakamura–    ...tint    15:11
CD2-4    Günter Müller / Toshimaru Nakamura–    ....tint    13:25
CD2-5    Günter Müller / Toshimaru Nakamura–    .....tint    10:20
Festival 1    
CD3-1    Cosmos (2)–    Untitled    25:07
CD3-2    Keith Rowe / Thomas Lehn / Marcus Schmickler–    Untitled    39:29
Festival 2    
CD4-1    Günter Müller / Otomo Yoshihide–    Untitled    36:42
CD4-2    Thomas Lehn / Marcus Schmickler–    Untitled    39:46
Festival 3    
CD5-1    Taku Sugimoto / Burkhard Stangl / Christof Kurzmann–    Untitled    24:30
CD5-2    Keith Rowe / Toshimaru Nakamura–    Untitled    31:49
Festival 4    
CD6-1    Burkhard Stangl / Günter Müller–    Untitled    34:13
CD6-2    Toshimaru Nakamura / Sachiko M–    Untitled    21:30
Seven Guitars    
CD7-1    Keith Rowe / Tetuzi Akiyama / Oren Ambarchi / Toshimaru Nakamura / Otomo Yoshihide / Burkhard Stangl / Taku Sugimoto–    Seven Guitars (Cornelius Cardew: Treatise, pp. 82-84)    38:25
CD7-2    Keith Rowe / Tetuzi Akiyama / Oren Ambarchi / Toshimaru Nakamura / Otomo Yoshihide / Burkhard Stangl / Taku Sugimoto–    Seven Guitars (Improvisation)    31:03
Balance Beams    1:48:56
DVD-1a    Keith Rowe–    On Preparing For Performance
2:42
DVD-1b    No Artist–    The Musicians And Star Pine's Cafe    4:28
DVD-1c    Sugimoto Guitar Quartet*–    Untitled    6:52
DVD-1d    Günter Müller–    Listening To This Nothing    1:54
DVD-1e    Cosmos (2)–    Untitled    9:46
DVD-1f    Keith Rowe–    Working A Long Life
0:53
DVD-1g    Rowe* / Lehn* / Schmickler*–    Untitled    5:49
DVD-1h    No Artist–    Stroll: Asakusa Market & Asakusa Kannon Temple    1:53
DVD-1i    Schnee–    Untitled
12:23
DVD-1j    Günter Müller–    Shifting Around The Canvas    1:20
DVD-1k    Otomo* / Müller*–    Untitled    6:31
DVD-1l    Marcus Schmickler–    This Duo We're Doing    1:42
DVD-1m    Lehn* / Schmickler*–    Untitled    6:33
DVD-1n    Marcus Schmickler–    If You Don't Have Any Music    1:33
DVD-1o    Sugimoto* / Stangl* / Kurzmann*–    Untitled    6:04
DVD-1p    Keith Rowe–    The Modernist Agenda
2:48
DVD-1q    Keith Rowe–    Developments In Improvised Music
1:47
DVD-1r    Rowe* / Nakamura*–    Untitled    4:48
DVD-1s    Astro Twin–    Untitled    4:01
DVD-1t    No Artist–    Dinner: Ikenoue / Shimokitazawa    2:00
DVD-1u    Stangl* / Müller*–    Untitled    7:19
DVD-1v    Thomas Lehn–    Music Experience    1:56
DVD-1w    Sachiko M / Nakamura*–    Untitled    4:11
DVD-1x    Rowe* / Müller* / Nakamura*–    Untitled    7:20
DVD-1y    No Artist–    A Very Brave Thing To Do    2:18
Extra Features    
DVD-2    Thomas Lehn, Toshimaru Nakamura, Taku Sugimoto–    Gendai Heights Medley    13:45
DVD-3    Keith Rowe, Tetuzi Akiyama, Oren Ambarchi, Toshimaru Nakamura, Otomo Yoshihide, Burkhard Stangl, Taku Sugimoto–    Seven Guitars (Treatise)    14:08
DVD-4    Burkhard Stangl / Taku Sugimoto, Christof Kurzmann / Toshimaru Nakamura–    Old-Fashioned Duet // New-Fashioned Duet    9:20
DVD-5    Keith Rowe / Thomas Lehn / Marcus Schmickler–    5.1 Surround Sound Mix (Audio Only)
39:26
DVD-6    Günter Müller / Otomo Yoshihide–    5.1 Surround Sound Mix (Audio Only)
37:26