{"id":1245,"date":"2013-01-05T13:12:10","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T21:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2013-02-02T13:27:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T21:27:08","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s3e2-the-temple-next-to-the-love-hotel-with-tim-olive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1245","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S3E2: The Temple Next to the Love Hotel with Tim Olive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1246\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"timolive\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/timolive.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"418\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/timolive.jpg 418w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/timolive-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/>Colin Marshall sits down in Kobe, Japan with guitarist, improviser, and sound artist <a href=\"http:\/\/timolive.org\/\">Tim Olive<\/a>, whose latest album is <em>33 Bays<\/em>\u00a0with Alfredo Costa Monteiro. They discuss Japan&#8217;s importance to global experimental music culture; his own swerve toward experimentation after a western Canadian childhood spent listening to Black Sabbath&#8217;s <em>Paranoid<\/em>; his early exploration of Javanese music in a Saskatchewan record library; how a Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois\u00a0girlfriend took him from Montreal to Osaka, where he lost &#8220;the rage&#8221;; how struck he felt by the sea of black hair Japan first presented to him; Osaka&#8217;s &#8220;glorious ugliness,&#8221; Nara&#8217;s deer, and Kobe&#8217;s wild pigs (just one of the signs of its close proximity to nature); his lack of a computer until last year, his longstanding ambivalence toward digital technology, and the double-edged sword of the internet&#8217;s power to open up everything all at once; his workshop full of guitars in various states of dismantlement, and the importance of instrument modification to the physicality and sense of touch in music, both of which he prizes; Japan&#8217;s distinctive combination of the highest new technology and the oldest traditions, as seen in the zoning collage of Osaka where venerable temples meet up with glossy love hotels; the fluid senses of time and space one must cultivate when moving between the West and the East, or even between Asian countries; his &#8220;under the table&#8221;-style freedom in Japan, and the other kinds of freedom the country affords, such as to one particular naked salaryman before the cops caught up with him; <a href=\"http:\/\/845audio.org\/\">845 Audio<\/a>, the label he founded to release <em>33 Bays <\/em>without delay; and his recommendations for getting tapped into the Kansai experimental music scene.<\/p>\n<p>Download the interview from\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/s3e2-the-temple-next-to-the-love-hotel-with-tim-olive\">Notebook on Cities and Culture<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/s3e2-the-temple-next-to-the-love-hotel-with-tim-olive\">\u2019s feed<\/a>\u00a0or on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Marshall sits down in Kobe, Japan with guitarist, improviser, and sound artist Tim Olive, whose latest album is 33 Bays\u00a0with Alfredo Costa Monteiro. 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