Prior to his second performance at the festival which was to be made to an even more conservative audience Akita was asked to play " more musically . " On that first stage, Merzbow used the finest example of " classical analogue live noisemaiking technologies " to display : untuned guitar, a drumset, various micro-objects, small springs centered in its shell baffles, large aluminium boxes with strings inside to be attacked with a fiddlestick, etc . along with multi-piezo-pickuping and close-miking techniques, live processing through vintage US fuzz, ring modulator etc . boxes, and quite vivid and spontaneous approach, backed by domestically supplied slide and light shows.
