評論(David Toop)「ジェネレイティブ・ミュージックについて」抜粋 :
THE WIRE issue 207 May, 2001

THE GENERATION GAME

- - - - - - Yoshio Machida is a musican and visul airtist living in Tokyo. His 1999 album, Hypernatural, was supplemented by the release of two floppy disks that remixed the CD tracks wiht SSEYO's Koan program. "I like to enjoy 'texture'and I was looking for some generator that makes the texture of a soundscape," Machida writes as an explanation of how he came to use Koan.
"I like to see the changing view of a landscape through a window of a train or an airplane. Especially,the view from an airplane is wonderful.At first I was using ALPS. This is Japanese Mac-based software. It's very simple but this can generate some phrases by itself. Then I knew Koan through some info about Eno.I thought, 'Oh,that's what I want!'. These softwares generate some not-perfect-things by themselves. "These textures are unique for me. I want to get some dynamics with not only my own power but also the other power, I want to keep a balance of instinct and thought. That's my way.Hypernatural sounds aren't always perfectly in chaos.It's an amorphous thing, not a crystallised thing.I think what is important is the thing between sounds and listener, not only sound.So this software helps me to make 'amorphous things'. For me, this is similar to field recording sounds and some analogue sounds. John Cage said he can enjoy listening to all sounds,except the sound with someone's intention. I feel so, too" - - - - -