Jean-Claude Eloy -- Gaku-No-Michi / "Tokyo" (1978)

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(The Ways Of Music) for electronic and concrete sounds. Produced in the electronic music studio (Denshi Ongaku) of N.H.K. Radio (Nippon Hoso Kyokai), Tokyo 1977-1978
I. "Toyko"
The Way of everyday sounds
(From the concrete to the abstract)
As its title indicates, this part finds it source in Tokyo city sounds (subway, bus, voices on speakers, buzzers, elevators, department stores, railway stations, etc.), to which other sounds of Japanese life are mixed (temple bells in Kyoto, priests` bells, drums, announcements of „Sumo" wrestling matches etc.)
In the first phase, the original sounds -- altough modulated, re-worked and assembled in numerous ways -- remain deliberatly identifiable, for the most part. Then, a second phase, rather short, forms a more abstract transition, relying on numerous exclusively electronic sounds (a voice asks the question: "What is ... Japanese sound? " ...).
Finally, the third phase -- the longest one -- is made up of a continuous thread, slowly progressing and often very dense: A direct allusion to the bustling impression given by teeming active masses, an impression this gigantic city can provoke. This "spiraling" development unifies, gathers up, mixes the diverse origins of sound material (concrete and electronic), carrying them towards greater and greater abstraction, which turns the end of "Tokyo" into a kind of transsubstantiation-loss from the distant, nearly forgotten memory of sound "signs" of this city. An example of the "Way", of the "path" through sounds.
(Hors-Territoires n° 3b (2005-2010) p. 58)
Gaku-No-Michi (The Ways of music):
"Pachinko"
(sound of introduction) [40']
I. "Tokyo"
The way of everyday sounds
(from the concrete to the abstract) [49']
II. "Fushiki-E"
The way of meditation sounds
(from the abstract to the concrete) [78']
"Mokuso"
(sound of stillness) [5']
III. "Banbutsu-No-Ryudo"
The way of metamorphoses of meaning
(from the concrete to the concrete) [33']
IV. "Kaiso"
The way of meaning beyond metamorphoses
(from the abstract to the abstract) [41']
"Han"
(sound of prolongation) [15']
Digitalized and revised version (2006)

Happy 81st birthday Maestro Jean-Claude Eloy! What a great work of art! Thank you!

[@khantarya]

THAT´S A MAGNIFICENT ALBUM OF ELOY´S MUSIC! I HAVE ONE VERY OLD LP
(THE SAME COVER PRESNTED IN THAT VIDEO!),OF THESE TRULLY EXAMPLE
OF ''AVANT-GARDE MUSIC''! SIMPLY ESSENCIAL!GREETINGS FOR YOUR NICE
POSTING,MY DEAR FRIEND!AND,OF COURSE! THANK YOU,SO MUCH!BRAVO!

[@Desiringmachine]

Thanks for posting. I've just gotten to know Eloy's music in the past year through studying the sources of French spectral music. Eloy's been written out of the history books. There's a good interview article about it on his website

[@rofanolubis8896]

capturing Tokyo concrète life
drone into the void ...great piece n awesome video !

[@jackhewitt7067]

Thank you for this composition falling onto my lap..

[@kuujjuaq58]

Sound, hereafter, are the cohesive that spreads it all, un-together, now. Sure beats the state fair, carnival rider! Thanks for posting....

[@plagueutopian1416]

Master works of art, great

[@HortusConclusus13090713]

This is astonishing, so sensitive.

[@carlitoazevedo895]

Thank you for posting. 

[@ambientfairchild]

thx for posting this. its amazing. im sharing it with my muso contacts on book face. avant garde and warm. love looking at tokyo too. hope to get there soon. x

[@mirrors1]

Una pietra miliare.

[@stusis]

#2019

[@michaellavin6038]

Great Solyarus reference for the video

[@josthinrichsen8636]

Hi, what do you mean by "Solyarus" or solyarus" reference? Thank you.

[@pngtime4comment]

The film "Solyaris" (Солярис/Solaris) includes a POV driving scene around Tokyo. The footage is used to show a view of a "city of the future". The footage is from 1972. It's a fantastic film. Go check it out!
I think this is what Michael is referring to.

[@rofanolubis]

tokyo in concrete ambient electronic scape !

[@ecrireensemble7465]

Dommage que l'intégralité de Gaku-No-Michi ne figure pas dans RUclips, comme pour Shânti

[@oijeofihnefih9940]

Who did the video?

[@ecco8]

18:18

[@josthinrichsen8636]

Who is the author of the video?

[@pngtime4comment]

Original footage looks like the work of cat2525jp here on youtube

[@ermesrosina8484]

I'm very interested in this music but I can't found it!

[@Youtubedeletedmyoldhandle]

You found it if you’re here listening to it

[@ermesrosina8484]

@@RUclipsdeletedmyoldhandle obviously. But I need also the booklet