Toshimaru Nakamura at Cafe Oto, London, May 2008

Toshimaru Nakamura is a Japanese musician, active in free improvisation and Japanese onkyo. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the taste or inclination of the musician(s involved in many cases the musicians make Onkyo or is a form of Free improvisation, emerging from Japan in the late 1990s

He began his career playing rock and roll guitar, but gradually explored other types of music, even abandoning guitar. Rock and roll (also known as rock 'n' roll) is a form of Music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s with roots in mostly African The guitar is a Musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles He uses a mixing console as a live, interactive musical instrument: "Nakamura plays the 'no-input mixing board', connecting the input of the board to the output, then manipulating the resultant audio feedback. In professional audio, a mixing console, or audio mixer, also called a sound board or soundboard, is an electronic device for combining A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified for the purpose of making Music. Audio Feedback (also known as the Larsen effect after the Danish scientist Søren Larsen who first discovered its principles is a special kind of Feedback " [1]

Nakamura's music has been described as "sounds ranging from piercing high tones and shimmering whistles to galumphing, crackle-spattered bass patterns. " [2]

Nakamura has recorded solo albums, and has collaborated with Yoshihide Otomo, Keith Rowe, and Nicholas Bussmann among others. is a Japanese Composer and Multi-instrumentalist. He first came to international prominence in the 1980s as the leader of the Noise rock group Keith Rowe (born March 16, 1940 in Plymouth, England) is an English Free improvisation Guitarist and painter. Nicholas Bussmann is a composer and performer He is a founder of the Love Song Competition which takes place every year in Berlin

External links

• Toshimaru Nakamura Home Page
• Toshimaru Nakamura: Sound Student, interviewed by William Meyer (July 2003)