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Elephantom
Elephantom . Sounds ..
01 . The Backlash . 1997 .. 02 . Dynamo . 2002-2003 .. 03 . Alchemically Scratched . 1995 .. 04 . Three Phases for Time . 2013 .. 05 . Glare on the Beach . 2009 .. 06 . Unknown Flute . 2003 .. 07 . Another Movement . 1996 .. 08 . Forest of Rain . 2016 .. 09 . Rewind . 2000 .. 10 . Jam . 2002 .. 11 . White, Orange, Blue . 2001 .. 12 . Retort . 2001 .. 13 . Pure Arc . 2001 .. 14 . A Home in Flare . 2017 .. 15 . Return . 2002 .. All files created by Yamaoka Yasuhiro January 1995-December 2017 . ©1995-2017 Yamaoka Yasuhiro . YOMusic YOR-21 . All rights reserved ..
Elephantom . Commentary ..
The title Elephantom was prepared for an album that is now called 1/2 after 5. When I got the sample-editing software Passport Alchemy in 1995, and completed the first work Alchemically Scratched, I decided to use the title Elephantom for another album that fully featured Alchemy. At first Elephantom was planned as a collection of audio work using a slow overlapping technique to create gradually changing eerie sound textures. While I was creating strange sound files with Alchemy, I was also about to edit my old pre-computer generated work from the 1980’s. This gradually changed the album’s concept into assembling a collection of my old ideas that I did not/could not complete when I first thought of them. I began to work with older ideas, but when I had a newer idea, I always wanted to try the newer one. Working intermittently back and forth between making newer work, with new ideas, and finishing older work later, the project entered a long time span. The concept then again changed into the idea of making a collection of work from various periods as a two disk set of older and newer work: The Memorial Junk (a ten year assortment) and Elephantom (a twenty two year assortment).
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release date: 26.12.17