I found this on Youtube the other day which includes some snippets of music that I have not heard from Tomita before including an excerpt from the Rite of Spring by Stravinsky and few and couple others.
Something that is also shown in the video is a picture of the Sound Creature album from 1977.
Now this is something you don’t see others artists doing and that is giving a detailed breakdown of how they made their music. Not only did it give the listener an audio deconstruction of the sounds he made but it also came with a booklet albeit in Japanese (though I have found a couple of pages that have been translated in to English) telling the listener how he created his trade mark sounds with diagrams of the synthesizer modules required to do it, effects processing, even the stereo placement within the track, the example below goes through part of the track “Day Break” from the “Daphnis and Chloe” album. Initially this was released in Japan but I have seen it on CD.
And some sketches illustrating how he got some of the effects on his albums.
This was when synth’s like the Moog where the reserve of the few who could afford them and were much more of a mystery than they are now, much like the way he gave a listing of all the equipment he used to make an album though he stopped this after the release of Dawn chorus in 1982.
Japanese to English translations of Sound Creature by Peter Lenehan niport@ozemail.com.au and English document production by Lance Lenehan lance@soundscapemusic.com.
