Various ArtistsFeaturing: Thomas Lehn, Keith Rowe, Günter Müller, Otomo Yoshihide, Toshimaru Nakamura, Marcus Schmickler
Amplify 2002 | Balance (7CD+DVD Box set)
2003 release ** Featuring: Thomas Lehn, Toshimaru Nakamura, Tetuzi Akiyama, Günter Müller, Christof Kurzmann, Taku Sugimoto, Keith Rowe, Marcus Schmickler, Otomo Yoshihide, Burkhard Stangl, Sachiko M, Cosmos. "A document of the 2002 Amplify festival in Tokyo curated by Erstwhile's Jon Abbey. Disc 1 and 7 are smaller club shows that took place outside the Festival proper, disc 2 is a studio session that took place around the time of the festival and discs 3-6 feature eight of the twelve sets that took place at the Amplify festival October 18th through the 20th at Star Pine's Cafe in Kichijoji, Tokyo. erstwhile 040, also included in the box, is a DVD entitled "balance beams" that documents the festival, including video of the performances, interviews with the participants and shots of the surrounding area. Also included is a 48-page booklet in full color with notes from the participants and photographs from the concerts. Discs packaged in six Digipaks held in a cardboard slipcase within a second cardboard slipcase."
| Outside Shows | |||
| CD1-1 | Untitled | 13:12 | |
| CD1-2 | Untitled | 19:20 | |
| CD1-3 | Untitled | 24:08 | |
| CD1-4 | Untitled | 13:20 | |
| Tint | |||
| CD2-1 | .tint | 4:51 | |
| CD2-2 | ..tint | 4:58 | |
| CD2-3 | ...tint | 15:11 | |
| CD2-4 | ....tint | 13:25 | |
| CD2-5 | .....tint | 10:20 | |
| Festival 1 | |||
| CD3-1 | Untitled | 25:07 | |
| CD3-2 | Untitled | 39:29 | |
| Festival 2 | |||
| CD4-1 | Untitled | 36:42 | |
| CD4-2 | Untitled | 39:46 | |
| Festival 3 | |||
| CD5-1 | Untitled | 24:30 | |
| CD5-2 | Untitled | 31:49 | |
| Festival 4 | |||
| CD6-1 | Untitled | 34:13 | |
| CD6-2 | Untitled | 21:30 | |
| Seven Guitars | |||
| CD7-1 | Seven Guitars (Cornelius Cardew: Treatise, pp. 82-84) | 38:25 | |
| CD7-2 | Seven Guitars (Improvisation) | 31:03 | |
| Balance Beams | |||
| DVD-1a | On Preparing For Performance | 2:42 | |
| DVD-1b | The Musicians And Star Pine's Cafe | 4:28 | |
| DVD-1c | Untitled | 6:52 | |
| DVD-1d | Listening To This Nothing | 1:54 | |
| DVD-1e | Untitled | 9:46 | |
| DVD-1f | Working A Long Life | 0:53 | |
| DVD-1g | Untitled | 5:49 | |
| DVD-1h | Stroll: Asakusa Market & Asakusa Kannon Temple | 1:53 | |
| DVD-1i | Untitled | 12:23 | |
| DVD-1j | Shifting Around The Canvas | 1:20 | |
| DVD-1k | Untitled | 6:31 | |
| DVD-1l | This Duo We're Doing | 1:42 | |
| DVD-1m | Untitled | 6:33 | |
| DVD-1n | If You Don't Have Any Music | 1:33 | |
| DVD-1o | Untitled | 6:04 | |
| DVD-1p | The Modernist Agenda | 2:48 | |
| DVD-1q | Developments In Improvised Music | 1:47 | |
| DVD-1r | Untitled | 4:48 | |
| DVD-1s | Untitled | 4:01 | |
| DVD-1t | Dinner: Ikenoue / Shimokitazawa | 2:00 | |
| DVD-1u | Untitled | 7:19 | |
| DVD-1v | Music Experience | 1:56 | |
| DVD-1w | Untitled | 4:11 | |
| DVD-1x | Untitled | 7:20 | |
| DVD-1y | A Very Brave Thing To Do | 2:18 | |
| Extra Features | |||
| DVD-2 | Gendai Heights Medley | 13:45 | |
| DVD-3 | Seven Guitars (Treatise) | 14:08 | |
| DVD-4 | Old-Fashioned Duet // New-Fashioned Duet | 9:20 | |
| DVD-5 | 5.1 Surround Sound Mix (Audio Only) | 39:26 | |
| DVD-6 | 5.1 Surround Sound Mix (Audio Only) | 37:26 | |
- Friederike Paetzold
- Design
- Jon Abbey
- Edited By (1-1 to 1-4), Liner Notes, Producer
- Taku Sugimoto
- Edited By (1-4), Liner Notes, Recorded By (7-1, 7-2)
- Toshimaru Nakamura
- Edited By (1-1 to 1-4), Liner Notes, Mastered By (1-1 to 1-4, 2-1 to 2-5, 7-1, 7-2), Mixed By (2-1, 2-2)
- Ami Yoshida
- Liner Notes
- Atsushi Sasaki
- Liner Notes
- Brian Marley
- Liner Notes
- Burkhard Stangl
- Liner Notes
- Christof Kurzmann
- Liner Notes
- Günter Müller
- Liner Notes, Mixed By (2-3 to 2-5)
- Jonas Leddington
- Liner Notes, Photography By [Still From Balance Beams], Producer (DVD1 to DVD6), Video Editor [Video Created By] (DVD1 to DVD6)
- Keith Rowe
- Liner Notes
- Oren Ambarchi
- Liner Notes
- Otomo Yoshihide
- Liner Notes
- Patrick Bœuf
- Liner Notes
- Sachiko M
- Liner Notes
- Tetuzi Akiyama
- Liner Notes, Recorded By (1-1 to 1-4)
- Utah Kawasaki
- Liner Notes
- Bill Ashline
- Liner Notes
- Yoshiyuki Suzuki
- Liner Notes
- Yuko Zama
- Liner Notes, Photography By
- Earl Howard
- Mastered By (3-1, 3-2, 4-1, 4-2, 5-1, 5-2, 6-1, 6-2)
- Yoshiaki Kondo
- Mixed By (3-1, 3-2, 4-1, 4-2, 5-1, 5-2, 6-1, 6-2, DVD1 to DVD6)
- Yumi Kobayashi
- Recorded By (3-1, 3-2, 4-1, 4-2, 5-1, 5-2, 6-1, 6-2, DVD1 to DVD6)
- William Ashline
- Video Editor [Additional Videography] (DVD1)
