New Releases
“These four improvisations display a sense of inevitability, my highest criterion for the spontaneous creation of music. Perhaps we can add the title of "architect" to Mari's list of talents” - Elliott Sharp
The first improvised live solo album by Mari Kimura, composer, violinist, technician, and establisher of the subharmonics technique. The master source is a DSD recording. Liner notes and mastering by guitarist, saxophonist, and composer Elliot Sharp. It is hard to believe that this is a live performance with only live violin, no multiple recordings, no electronics, etc. Both the performance and the liner notes are immediate and immediate. Both the performance and the liner notes make us rediscover the charm of improvisation.
Solo Albums
Plumbing the depths of sound and joy.
New World Record: featuring music for electronics written for Kimura's "Sarahal" for two violin and computer
Mutable Music: collection of own works featuring Subharmonics and interactive computer
Bridge Records: featuring music for electronics written for Kimura and own works
Improvisation Albums
Acoustics Improvisation with Henry Kaiser, Jim O'Rourke and John Oswald
Duo Improvisation CD with Mexican multi-instrumentalist Roberto Morales Manzanares
Duo Improvisation CD with flutist/composer Robert Dick
Improvisation CD with Earl Howard, Thomas Buckner and J D Parran
1st violinist in this improvisation orchestra by Hans Tammen
Co-Authored Albums
Microorganism orchestra of Japanese composers redefining free-floating sounds
- ECO for violin and signal processing: "Tongues Enrobed/Eco 2 Vln/+ " (Graugaard/Kimura/Rai/Kanding) Classico #139 , Released 10/22/96.
- U (The Cormorant) for violin and electronics by Kimura: ICMC '92 CD.
Performer Recordings
- "Active Figurations" for violin and computer by Rai Takayuki, (commissioned by Music From Japan), Fontec Japan, 2013.
- “Full Moon” for violin and electronics by Mari Takano (commissioned by Music From Japan), “LigAlian”. BIS, Sweden, 2011.
- "Mari Kimura Redux" by Noah Creshevsky, a remix piece of Kimura’s acoustic violin improvisation recordings. Published in “If Bwana” CD, Pogus label, 2008.
- "Futaku" for violin and percussion by Yoshihiro Kanno. Fontec Japan, 1993.
