toshi ichiyanagi: expo '70

This is an excerpt of Toshi Ichiyanagi's piece composed for an installation at the expo '70 international exhibition in Osaka, Japan. What draws my attention here in particular is how noise has been used to denote language, or—to be more precise—how language has been distorted by the use of noise, creating a melodic noise—language entity.

Recording distilled from the 'Tone Generation' series of audio programmes by Ian Halliwell and Simon James.