Sachiko Matsubara, who usually records as Sachiko M, is a Japan

Japan

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ese musician

Musician

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, but she considers herself to be a "non-musician".

She was a member of Otomo Yoshihide's Ground Zero

Ground Zero (band)

Ground Zero was a Japanese noise/improvisation band during the 1990s led by guitarist and turntablist Yoshihide Otomo that had a large and rotating group of performers with two other regular performers-Musical style:...

 from 1994 to 1997, where she used a sampler

Sampler (musical instrument)

A sampler is an electronic musical instrument similar in some respects to a synthesizer but, instead of generating sounds, it uses recordings of sounds that are loaded or recorded into it by the user and then played back by means of a keyboard, sequencer or other triggering device to perform or...

. More recently, she has concentrated on music made from sine wave

Sine wave

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s. Together with Toshimaru Nakamura

Toshimaru Nakamura

Toshimaru Nakamura is a Japanese musician, active in free improvisation and Japanese onkyo.He began his career playing rock and roll guitar, but gradually explored other types of music, even abandoning guitar and started working on circuit bending...

, "a kindred spirit," with whom she has collaborated and who plays the "'no-input' mixing board" (a board with the outputs connected to the inputs, thus producing feedback

Feedback

Feedback describes the situation when output from an event or phenomenon in the past will influence an occurrence or occurrences of the same Feedback describes the situation when output from (or information about the result of) an event or phenomenon in the past will influence an occurrence or...

), she is considered one of the main representatives of the onkyo

Onkyokei

The Onkyo music movement or is a form of free improvisation, emerging from Japan in the late 1990s. Onkyō places much more emphasis on sound texture than on musical structure, distilling elements of techno, noise, and electronic music into a unique hybrid.The Off Site, a venue in Tokyo, is home...

trend and the present day EAI

Electroacoustic improvisation

Electroacoustic improvisation is a style of music that incorporates aspects of both electroacoustic music and free improvisation.-Origins:Live electronics has been part of the sound art world since the 1930s with the early works of John Cage...

-scene. She records for labels like Erstwhile Records

Erstwhile Records

Erstwhile Records is an independent record label devoted to free improvisation, particularly the electroacoustic variety. Erstwhile was founded by Jon Abbey in 1999, and his knowledgeable personality and tastes are closely identified with the label.Characteristic label artists include guitarist...

.

She has collaborated with a variety of other musicians, including Otomo Yoshihide as part of Filament

Filament (band)

Filament is a musical group from Japan that consists of Otomo Yoshihide and Sachiko M, two of the major exponents of the electroacoustic improvisation style of music....

, with him and Yoshimitsu Ichiraku as part of I.S.O. and with Ami Yoshida

Ami Yoshida

Ami Yoshida is a Japanese musician.Yoshida does not play instruments, instead making her music with her own voice. Rather than conventional singing she makes a variety of vocalisations of such a nature that it is often hard to tell that the sounds are being produced by a voice at all. These sounds...

, with whom she and Utah Kawasaki won the 2003 Prix Ars Electronica

Prix Ars Electronica

The Prix Ars Electronica is one of the most important yearly prizes in the field of electronic and interactive art, computer animation, digital culture and music...

 for digital musics for their projects Astro Twin and Cosmos.

Solo

• Sachiko M. Salon de Sachiko. Hitorri, hitorri-111, 2007.
• Sachiko M. Bar Sachiko. Improvised Music from Japan, IMJ-517, 2004.
• Sachiko M. 1:2. 3" CD. a bruit secret, a bruit secret 09, 2003.
• Sachiko M. Derive. Noise Asia, NAIM 15 CD, 2003.
• Sachiko M. Detect. 3" CD. Antifrost, Afro 2007, 2000.
• Sachiko M. Debris. 3" CD. F.M.N. Sound Factory, FSC-016, 1999.
• Sachiko M. Sine Wave Solo. SAT / Amoebic, AMO-SAT-01, 1999.
• Sachiko M. Music for Headphone. Audiocassette. SAT / Amoebic, AMO-SATca01, 1997.

Duo

• Sachiko M, and Sean Meehan. Sachiko M & Sean Meehan. 2002.
• Samartzis, Philip, and Sachiko M. Artefact. Dorobo, DLE7, 2002.
• Do (1999/2001, Erstwhile) with Toshimaru Nakamura. "works of extremely minimal change...long, slowly changing sounds and drones"

Co-leader

• Choi, Joonyong, Hong Chulki, Sachiko M, and Otomo Yoshihide. Sweet Cuts, Distant Curves. Balloon & Needle, bnn20, 2008.
• Rowe, Keith, Sachiko M, Toshimaru Nakamura, and Otomo Yoshihide. ErstLive 005. 3-CD set. Erstwhile, ErstLive 005, 2005.
• Fennesz, Christian, Sachiko M, Otomo Yoshihide, and Peter Rehberg. ErstLive 004. Erstwhile, ErstLive 004, 2005.
• Coleman, Gene, Franz Hautzinger, Sachiko M, and Otomo Yoshihide. Concert in St. Louis. Grob, GROB 656, 2005.
• Sachiko M, Toshimaru Nakamura, and Otomo Yoshihide. Good Morning Good Night. 2-CD set. Erstwhile, erstwhile 042-2, 2004.
• Intonarumori Orchestra. Intonarumori Orchestra. Off Site, OFF SITE-004, 2004.
• LENGOW & HEyeRMEarS, Yoshihide Otomo, and Sachiko M. Warholes or All Andy Would Enjoy (And Fear) / Warhol Memory Disorder. HEyeRMEarS / Discorbie, HDCD 002, 2003.
• Dafeldecker, Werner, Franz Hautzinger, John Tilbury, and Sachiko M. Absinth. Grob, GROB 435, 2002.
• Rowe, Keith, Oren Ambarchi, Sachiko M, Yoshihide Otomo, and Robbie Avenaim. Thumb. Grob, GROB 432, 2002.
• Matthews, Kaffe, Andrea Neumann, and Sachiko M. In Case of Fire Take the Stairs. Improvised Music from Japan, IMJ-503, 2002.
• Otomo, Yoshihide, Taku Sugimoto, and Sachiko M. Les Hautes Solitudes—A Philippe Garrel Film: Imaginarry Soundtrack. Out One, DDCO-1003, 2002.
• T&eaucte;treault, Martin, Sachiko M, Yasuhiro Otani, and Yoshihide Otomo. Four Focuses. SAT / Amoebic, AMO-SAT-02, 1999.
• Otomo, Yoshihide, Sachiko M, and Yoshimitsu Ichiraku. Live at OTIS! Audiocassette. Terminal Body, T021, 1998.
• Les sculpteurs de vinyl. Memory & Money. Stupeur & Trompette!, ST 1012, 1997.

With Filament

• Ikunishi, Yasunori, Yasunori Kakegawa, Tetsuya Nagato, and Filament. Dark Room Filled with Light. DVD. Uplink, ULD-322, 2006.
• Filament. Filament BOX. 5-CD set. F.M.N. Sound Factory, FMC-030-034, 2004.
• Filament. 29092000. Amoebic, AMO-SAT-03, 2001.
• Filament and Günter Müller. Filament 2: Secret Recordings. For 4 Ears, CD 1031, 1999.
• Otomo, Yoshihide, and Sachiko M. Filament 1. Extreme, XCD 045, 1998.

with Cosmos

• Cosmos. Tears. Erstwhile, erstwhile 024, 2002.
• Astro Twin and Cosmos. Astro Twin / Cosmos. 2-CD set. F.M.N. Sound Factory, FMC-026/7, 2002.
• with I.S.O.
• I.S.O. I.S.O. Sound Tectonics/YCAM, 2003.
• I.S.O. I.S.O. Alcohol, ALISOCD, 1999.
• I.S.O. Live. Zero Gravity, ZGV-023, 1998.
• I.S.O. Gravity Clock. Amoebic, AMOISO-01, 1998.

with Hoahio

• Hoahio. Ohayo! Hoahio! Tzadik, TZ 7230, 2000.
• Hoahio. Happy Mail. Amoebic, AMO-HOA01, 1997.

With Toshimaru Nakamura

• Nakamura, Toshimaru, and Sachiko M. Do. Erstwhile, erstwhile 013, 2001.
• Nakamura, Toshimaru, and Sachiko M. Un. Meme, 011CD, 1999.

With Otomo Yoshihide

• Otomo, Yoshihide. Core Anode. Meenna, meenna-332, 2008.
• Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra. Live Vol. 2: Parallel Circuit 2-CD set. doubtmusic, dmf-117/118, 2007.
• Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra. Live Vol. 1: Series Circuit 2-CD set. doubtmusic, dmf-115/116, 2007.
• Otomo, Yoshihide. Prisoner—A Film by Adachi Masao: Original Soundtrack. oto-mo/Headz, oto-mo 1/HEADZ 88, 2007.
• Otomo, Yoshihide. Music(s). 2-DVD-R set. La Huit, 2006.
• Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra. Out to Lunch. doubtmusic, dmf-108, 2005.
• Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra. Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra. doubtmusic, dmf-102, 2005.
• Canary: Music from the Motion Picture. Dir. Akihiko Shiota
  Akihiko Shiota
  is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.-Career:Born in Kyoto Prefecture, Shiota attended Rikkyō University, where he began making 8mm films in the tradition of other Rikkyō students like Kiyoshi Kurosawa...
  
  . Beyondo, SFS-012, 2005.
• Otomo, Yoshihide, Park Je Chun, and Mi Yeon. Loose Community. Improvised Music from Japan, IMJ-511, 2003.
• Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet. Tails Out. DIW, DIW-946, 2003.
• Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet. Pulser. LP. Vinylsoyuz, ASTP-5011, 2002.
• Otomo, Yoshihide, and Masahiko Shimada. Miira ni Naru made: German Version. Charhizma, charhizma 017, 2002.
• Otomo, Yoshihide. Ensemble Cathode. Improvised Music from Japan, IMJ-502, 2002.
• Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Ensemble. Dreams. Tzadik, TZ 7238, 2002.
• Otomo, Yoshihide. Anode. Tzadik, TZ 7073, 2001.
• Yoshihide Otomo's New Jazz Quintet. Flutter. Tzadik, TZ 7232, 2001.
• Otomo, Yoshihide. Kazahana. Dir. Shinji Somai. Enhanced CD. Cinema Monsoon, MOSCD-017, 2001.
• Otomo, Yoshihide. Music for DanceArt Hong Kong's "Memory Disorder". Sonic Factory, NAIM07, 2000.
• Otomo, Yoshihide. Shabondama Elegy. Dir. Ian Kerkhof. Station Kids, SKCA-1002, 1999.
• Otomo, Yoshihide. Cathode. Tzadik, TZ 7051, 1999.
• Otomo, Yoshihide. Lupin the Third: Ending Theme. 12" Single. P-Vine, PLP-6852, 1999.
• Otomo, Yoshihide. Yoshihide Otomo Plays the Music of Takeo Yamashita. P-Vine, PCD-5804, 1999.
• Otomo, Yoshihide. dead BEAT. Dir. Hiroshi Ando. 3" CD. Gaga Communications, R-9970075 1999.
• Otomo, Yoshihide. Memory Defacement. 2-LP Set. Japan Overseas & FMN Sound Factory, JO97-33/35/ F.M.N. Sound Factory, FMAE 02/03, 1998.
• Otomo, Yoshihide, and Jon Rose. Tatakiuri. Sank-ohso / Creativeman, CMDD-00017, 1995.

With Ground Zero

• Ground Zero. Last Concert. Valve / Amoebic, AMO-VA-02, 1999 (Japan); Alcohol, ALGZ1CD, 1999 (UK).
• Cassiber. Live in Tokyo. Off Note, ON-25, 1997.
• Ground Zero. Consume Red. Sank-ohso / Creativeman, CMDD-00046, 1997 (Japan); ReR, ReR GZ2, 1997 (UK).
• Ground Zero. Plays Standards. Nani-Disk Union, NCD-201, 1997.
• Bästard / Ground Zero. Pinball Tenacity / Live Mao '99. Split 7" single. Panemonium Rdz, PAN010, 1996.
• Ground Zero. Revolutionary Pekinese Opera, Version 1.50. 7" single. Gentle Giant, GG701, 1996.
• Ground Zero. Revolutionary Pekinese Opera, Version 1.28. ReR, GZ1, 1996 (UK); Locus Solus, LSI 1007 (Japan).
• Ground Zero. Revolutionary Pekinese Opera, Tokyo 1995: Unofficial Live Video. Videocassette. Ganseki Products, G-96041V, 1995.
• Ground Zero. Revolutionary Pekinese Opera. Trigram, TR-P 909, 1995.

With other artists

• Otomo, Yoshihide. Ultra Miracle Love Story. Little More, LMCD-1005, 2009.
• Kahimi Karie. Muhlifein. DVD. Victor, VIBL-391, 2007.
• Kahimi Karie. Nunki. Victor, VICL-62135, 2006.
• Kahimi Karie. Kochab. DVD. Victor, VIBL-344, 2006.
• Otomo, Yoshihide, and Yuki Saga. See You in a Dream. 2-CD set. F.M.N. Sound Factory, FMC-038/039, 2005.
• Nakamura, Toshimaru, and Tetuzi Akiyama. Meeting at Off Site Vol. 3. Improvised Music from Japan, IMJ-515, 2003.
• Poire_Z. +. Erstwhile, 022, 2002.
• Nakamura, Toshimaru, and Tetuzki Akiyama. Meeting at Off Site Vol. 1. Reset, reset003, Improvised Music from Japan, IMJ-501, 2002.
• Phew. Phew Video. Boid, v-boid3, 2001.
• Big Picture. Big Picture. Little More, LMCA-1002, 2001.
• Soybelman, Leonid. With Russia from Love: Live in Japan. No Man's Land, NML-0128, 2001.
• Nakamura, Toshimaru, Tetsuzi Akiyama, and Taku Sugimoto. The Improvisation Meeting at Bar Aoyama. Reset, reset 002, 1999.
• Kazmi with Rickies. Mittsu no Mute. 5" Single CD. Toshiba EMI, TOCT-9923, 1997.
• Rose, Jon. Violin Music in the Age of Shopping. Intakt, IntaktCD038, 1995.
• Rose, Jon. Violin Music for Supermarkets. Megaphone, 016, 1994.

Compilations

• Dolmen: A Short History 2000-2005. Book and 2 CDs. Dolmen, ISBN 978-3-033-00878-6, 2008.
• Big Ears: Fitzgerald's Manifesto. Sonic Arts Network, 2005.
• Boycott Rhythm Machine. Vinylsoyuz, VSAC-2002, 2004.
• Sonic Fiction: Synaesthetic Videos from Austria. DVD. Index, INDEX DVD 014, 2004.
• Haunted Weather. 2-CD set. Staubgold, staubgold 52, 2004.
• Full. Antifrost, AFRO2020, 2003.
• Amplify 2002: Balance. 7 CDs and one DVD. Erstwhile, erstwhile 033-040, 2003.
• Loud :: Quiet. 2nd edition. 2-CD set. BOXmedia, CD009, 2002.
• Japanese Avant-garde: Agitation/Stillness—Noise/Silence. Sub Rosa, SR202, 2002.
• Off Site Composed Music Series in 2001. 2-CD set. A Bruit Secret, 101-102, 2002.
• Stylus #3. Stylus/College Chart Japan, CCJ-0004, 2002.
• Happy End Cover Box. 5-CD set. Oz, OZD-091-95, 2002.
• Improvised Music from Japan Presents Improvised Music from Japan. 10-CD set. Improvised Music from Japan, IMJ-10CD, 2001.
• Avanto 2001. Avanto, AAAAA-2001, 2001.
• Japanese Independent Music. Sonore, SON-11, 2001.
• Deluxe Improvisation Series, Vol. 1: 2000. ASE, ASE-02, 2001.
• Deluxe Improvisation Series, Vol. 2: 2001 Part 1. ASE, ASE-03, 2001.
• I Love Fantasy. Lucky Kichen, LK011, 2001.
• Mottomo Otomo: Unlimited XIII. Trost, TR076, 2000.
• Find More Hits. Lucky Kitchen, LK8, 2000.
• London Musicians' Collective ...the First 25 Years. 2-CD Set. LMC, RES8.2CD/RES9.1CD, 2000.
• Ring Ring 99: Around the World. Free B92, CD006 SOKOJ, 2000.
• Loud :: Quiet. 2-CD set. BOXmedia, CD009, 1999.
• Land of the Rising Noise, Vol. 3: New Music from Japan. Charnel Music, CHCD-33, 1999.
• The Last Famous International Gluttons. Snowdonia, SD 004W, 1998.
• 90's Japanese Independent Musics. Sonore et Artzero, SON-03, 1998.
• AngelicA 1997. i dischi di angelica, IDA 013, 1998.
• Ring Ring 1997. Radio B92, D016, 1998.
• Tokyo Invasion, Volume 1: Cosmic Kurushi Monsters. Virgin, 1996.
• In addition to the titles above, Sachiko M participated in the following recordings, which were privately released or include her incidental appearance.
• Sachiko M. "Sonfa" and "Ilill." Audiocassette. 1996.
• Sachiko M. "Chigum" and "Poda." Audiocassette. 1996.
• Sachiko M. "'Eiyu honshoku' Yokokuhen" and "Presented by Atom." Audiocassette. 1996.
• Phew. Himitsu no Knife. Alida / Creativeman, CMDD-00010, 1995.

External links

• Sachiko M at Improvised Music from Japan