tracks

Lights Along The Way—India
Meshes Of The Afternoon
Lights Along The Way—Java/Korea
The Very Eye Of The Night
Lights Along The Way—China
Maeva
Search For Love/Rape Scene
Return To Tahiti
True Love Found
Dwightiana
Bagatelle For Williard Maas
Moonplay
Arabesque For Kenneth Anger
Operation Hourglass–Diesel Engine
Water Music Study
Orgia
The Language Of Faces
1
2
Works Of Matisse
Handwritten
Lifelines

notes

Tracks 1-1, 1-3 and 1-5 recorded 1959 for a UN film produced for World University Services.
Track 1-2 recorded 1959 and is the complete score to the Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid's film. Originally reconstructed by Steve Peters in 1996 following the film's soundtrack, this version features all the music recorded for "Meshes" and includes multiple takes, whispered directions by Deren and moments of music ultimately never used in the final cut of the film.
Track 1-4 recorded 1952. It is longer than the version released on Meshes.
Track 1-6 to 1-8 recorded 1961 for the film "Portrait of a Tahitian Girl, Maeva" produced and directed by Umberto Bonsignori and scripted by Maya Deren.
2-1 recorded 1959 for a film by Marie Menken.
2-2, 2-3 and 2-4 recorded 1961 for films by Marie Menken.
2-5 recorded 1956 for a documentary film commissioned by the Cummins Engine Company. This music was also used in Alexander Hammid's 1958 film "Power Among Men", produced by the UN.
2-6 recorded in 1967 and is an early unmixed version of music created for an abstract film of reflecting water patterns by director Yudel Kyler.
2-7 recorded 1967.
2-8 and 2-9 recorded 1961 for a film directed by John Kotty and produced under the auspices of the Quaker Pacifist Movement in America.
2-10 recorded 1959 for a little known documentary about Henri Matisse by Walter Lewisohn.
2-11 recorded 1959 and is a brief soundtrack montage from Ed Emshwiller's animation.
2-12 recorded 1960 for a short by Ed Emshwiller.

All music composed, performed and recorded in the studio he shared with Maya Deren at 61 Morton Street, NYC.
All materials used by permission of the Ito Estate.
These recordings were made available for release through the kind cooperation of the Teiji Ito Collection of Noncommercial Recordings, ca. 1952-1982 at the Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound/The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Anthology Film Archives, Filmmaker's Coop and the Teiji Ito Estate. "Meshes of the Afternoon" and "The Very Eye of Night" were first released on ¿What Next? in 1996.
Special thanks to Andrew Lampert, Martina Kudláček, Henry Hills, Steve Peters, Sara Velez, Tom Christie, Cherel and Tavia Ito.

With semi-glossy 16 page booklet.

credits

Composed By, Performer, Recorded By – Teiji Ito
Design – Chippy (3)
Liner Notes [Music And Film Interview, NYC 1953] – Maya Deren, Teiji Ito
Liner Notes [Notes] – John Zorn
Mastered By – Scott Hull (2)
Photography By [Cover Image, Stills] – Martina Kudláček
Producer – John Zorn
Producer [Associate] – Kazunori Sugiyama

companies

Copyright (c) – Tzadik
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Tzadik

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