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Release Date: 2001Label: Saidera Records
20 CD boxed set of previously unreleased materialDiscs 3 and 4 consist of field recordings spread across 99 and 79 tracks, respectively. Total length of each recording is 78:16. Disc 3 recorded at Copacabana, Rio de Janiero, Brasil, February 1990. Disc 4 recorded at Nice, France, July 1999.
Disc 5 recorded live at Spiral Garden, Aoyoma, Japan, September 7 and 10, 1998. Includes an ambient piece spread across 32 tracks, each track gives thanks to a person or agency. Tracks 35-38 are listed twice; above, both thanks are listed.
Disc 6 recorded for Oscar Satio Oiwa's exhibition "the Garden of Eden" at the Ueno Royal Museum, October 1998. Recorded September 1998.
Disc 11 contains 10 tracks of samples of the 1853 Johann Baptiste Streicher Piano Forte used elsewhere in the boxed set (Johann's first name is misprinted as "Jean" throughout the album's packaging.) Each of the piano's 84 keys is first struck then held across the first eight tracks; the final two feature a slow arpeggiation of D Major triads up the full length of the piano.
Disc 16 contains instructions to use two CD players to play tracks 1 and 2 simultaneously to recreate the surround sound of the piece's original performance at IDEE, July 21, 2000.
Disc 17 recorded for Oscar Satio Oiwa's exhibition "The Gift of Hope" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, December 2000 to April 2001. Recorded August to December 2000.
Disc 19 is credited to Seigen Ono solely in the packaging, though the Saidera website credits it to the Seigen Ono Ensemble, as shown above.
Disc 20 is a "greatest hits" for the boxed set and contains several uncredited edits, all credited above. For songs that appear multiple times throughout the boxed set, its catalogue number is appended as subtitle above.
Disc 8 Track 3 is accidentally listed as 31:08 in length.
Disc 10 Track 7 is listed as 1:59 in length, which is where the piece ends; five minutes of additional phone chatter follows.
Disc 11 Track 5 is listed as 2:36 in length, which is where the piece ends; nearly a minute of silence follows.
Disc 16 Track 1 is listed as 26:48 in length, which is where the piece ends; three minutes of silence follows.