| Onkyokei | |
|---|---|
| Stylistic origins | |
| Cultural origins | Late 1990s Japan |
TheOnkyo music movement orOnkyokei (音響系,Onkyōkei) (translation: "reverberation of sound"[1]) is a form offree improvisation, emerging from Japan in the late 1990s. Onkyō can be translated as "sound, noise, echo".[2] Some artists commonly associated with Onkyō includeToshimaru Nakamura,Tetuzi Akiyama,Sachiko M, andTaku Sugimoto, among others.
The Off Site, a venue in Tokyo, is home to the Onkyo music movement, which is characterized by improvisation,minimalism, and "quietnoise".[3] Onkyo improvisation, "explores the fine-grainedtextural details ofacoustic andelectronic sound".[1]
It influenced the development ofelectroacoustic improvisation, or EAI, a genre with which it is strongly intertwined. The transnational circulation of onkyo also influenced its representation as a form of "Japanese new music," despite claims by its authors that onkyo had little to do with Japanese cultural identity.[4]