Onkyo · GenresWhat is onkyo?
The Onkyo Music Movement or Onkyokei (音響系, Onkyōkei) (translation: "reverberation of sound") is a form of free improvisation, emerging from Japan in the late 1990s. Onkyō (translation: "sound, noise, echo") places much more emphasis on sound texture than on musical structure, distilling elements of techno, noise, and electronic music into a unique hybrid.
About onkyo
The Off Site, a venue in Tokyo, was home to the Onkyo Music Movement, which is characterized by improvisation, minimalism, and "quiet noise".
From Last.fm, where 175 listeners have tagged music as onkyo.
Artists to start with
Albums to hear first
No-Input Mixing BoardToshimaru Nakamura
さりとて杉本拓と佳村萠
Live in Saritote杉本拓と佳村萠
OppositeTaku Sugimoto
+ / -Ryoji Ikeda
Wedding CeremonyLucio Capece, Julia Eckhardt, Christian Kesten, Radu Malfatti, Toshimaru Nakamura & Taku Sugimoto
CathodeOtomo Yoshihide
Good Morning Good NightSachiko M, Toshimaru Nakamura & Otomo Yoshihide
Onkyo songs
- Mirrors by Taku Sugimoto
- Offing by Angharad Davies
- Les Protorythmiques by erikm (Luc Ferrari) & Thomas Lehn
- 最期の調律 by The Gerogerigegege
- Bells Of... by Taku Sugimoto
- Spoon River I by Taku Sugimoto
- A Day Book by Taku Sugimoto
- Opposite by Taku Sugimoto
- At the Corner by Taku Sugimoto
- Paris by Taku Sugimoto
Neighbouring genres
In the other family. All genres
darkwavecoldwavechoralbig beatchiptunedigicorechansoncrunkdembowdarksynthcontemporary christiandjentQuestions
- What is onkyo?
- The Onkyo Music Movement or Onkyokei (音響系, Onkyōkei) (translation: "reverberation of sound") is a form of free improvisation, emerging from Japan in the late 1990s. Onkyō (translation: "sound, noise, echo") places much more emphasis on sound texture than on musical structure, distilling elements of techno, noise, and electronic music into a unique hybrid. The Off Site, a venue in Tokyo, was home to the Onkyo Music Movement, which is characterized by improvisation, minimalism, and "quiet noise".
- Who are the best-known onkyo artists?
- By Last.fm listening: Sachiko M, Toshimaru Nakamura & Otomo Yoshihide, Taku Sugimoto, Taku Sugimoto & Moe Kamura, Filament, 杉本拓と佳村萠 and Toshimaru Nakamura.
- What genres are similar to onkyo?
- On Risocast it sits with darkwave, coldwave, choral, big beat, chiptune and digicore.
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