SFMoMA + Japanese Music

[Michael Saddoris <saddoris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I found out about this this morning (thanks to lawrence), and thought I 
would pass it on to the list since I don't remember hearing about it before.
http://www.sfmoma.org/crossfade/
It's a project with SF MoMA (and I guess a few other musems) devoted to 
"sound as artistic medium". Of particular interest to me was the work on 
Japanese sound art, as compiled and discussed by Atau Tanaka. It's 10 hours 
of streaming music with a fairly good discussion of the background of the 
genre. Incl artists range from post-war NHK composers to today's laptop 
crew like Ikeda and *0. It's definitely worth checking out.
Relatedly, I'm looking for help on getting representative works of a lot of 
the people mentioned in the exhibit, particularly people like Keiji Hainio, 
Yoshihide Otomo, and Toshimaru Nakamura, whose names tend to pop up from 
time to time. It seems like a lot of these people's works are somewhat 
difficult to find here stateside, so before I start trying to buy things at 
random, I thought I would try to get some suggestions from people who know 
more about this than I do. I tried my hardest to track down some things by 
Otomo, and in three albums, I found three totally different sounds 
(delicate glitches and tones on Cathode, concrete noises on his 
collaboration with Christian Marclay, and kind of cheesy jazz-pop on his 
Plays the Music of Takeo Yamashita album [I don't think I really "got" that 
one]). So, assuming I'm closer in mindset to the Cathode style, I'd love 
some guidance o  him, or any related people.

thanks and happy listening,
mike