Onkyokei
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Onkyo or Onkyokei (音響系 Onkyōkei?) is a form of free improvisation, emerging from Japan in the late 1990s. Onkyo, a Japanese word meaning "reverberation of sound", places much more emphasis on sound texture than on musical structure, distilling elements of techno, noise, and electronic music into a unique hybrid.
It is typified by small and often quiet musical gestures, and liberal use of both electronics and silence. Prominent musicians working in this area include Toshimaru Nakamura, Sachiko M, Yoshihide Otomo and Taku Sugimoto.
It influenced the development of electroacoustic improvisation or EAI, a genre with which it is strongly intertwined.
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