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Improvisational guitarist, turntablist and composer Otomo Yoshihide was created August 1, 1959 in Yokohama, Japan; the boy of the engineer, as a kid he constructed his have radio and digital oscillator, so that as a teen started creating audio collages through open-reel tape recorders. During senior high school, Yoshihide performed …

Filament is made up of samplist Sachiko M. and guitarist/turntablist Otomo Yoshihide. The set produced Filament in 1997 for the functionality in Switzerland. A calendar year later, they produced their first documenting and toured European countries. Filament can be involved generally with “plunderphonics” — appropriating sampled materials from pre-existing recordings, …