Filament: Otomo Yoshihide & Sachiko M, Sun 22 March, 20:40-21:40, The Arches

Who

Two of the leading experimental musicians in Japan/ the world/ Glasgow (on Sunday 22 March at least). Filament is their groundbreaking post-electronics duo project.

What

Sachiko has a steely concentration on very simple, pure sine tones and structures: really bare and honest. Otomo most often uses empty turntables (no cartridge, no record) and guitar (although not here). Filament's set will really be 3 sets, inc. 10 min solos on contacts mics24 and a piano25.

Why

Filament's music isn't composed and it isn't improvised: it's a hybrid of the two; more a selection of considered pronouncements. It's hard-boiled, sometimes hardly audible (quiet or beyond human hearing) and at others fearsomely loud.

24Sachiko

25Otomo

Filament 1 (5:12)

Filament 8 (0:16)