In 1994 Carl Stone and Yoshihide Otomo began a mail collaboration where master tapes were passed back and forth serially and the materials of each other's compositions served as the basis for their own. The collaboration is MONOGATARI: Amino Argot, released on the Trigram label. In December 1994 Stone and Otomo played a six-city tour in Japan.

Yoshihide Otomo, composer, turnatable artist, guitar player, is one of the most adventurous of sound creators within the Tokyo music scene today, and is rapidly acquiring acclaim in Europe and America as well as other parts of Asia. His defiance of categorization and establishment has brought him recognition not only for musical agility but also as a key individual within the ever-spreading worldwide network of independent and likeminded challenging musicians.

From composing soundtracks for television and film, music for drama and dance, sound works for architecture, to producing CDs and concerts, the sheer range of Otomo's work is noteworthy. Among representative works/projects are GROUND-ZERO, a unit weaving out energy music over a base structure of samples and improvisation, soundtracks to films THE BLUE KITE (China 1993) and THE DAY THE SUN TURNED COLD (Hong Kong 1994), both of which were winners at the Tokyo International Film Festival in 1993 and 1994. Otomo continues to work with the concept that process and relation within creativity is equal in significance to that which is created, an attitude from which new possibilities are always emerging and definitions are void.

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MONOGATARI:Amino Argot, 
released on TRIGRAM (JAPAN) and available from Electro-Acoustic Music