Max Devereaux/hayashipooo/nameBYnames – Live at Environment0g, Osaka – 04.10.2024

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Max Devereaux is an American self-taught, prolific experimental guitarist, songwriter, visual artist, and filmmaker who focuses on free improvisation, electronic and electroacoustic music, and cross-disciplinary projects. He splits his time between Southern California and Minneapolis.

Live at EnvironmentoG, Osaka is the first-ever, free improvisation performance of Devereaux playing an electric guitar (Fender Stratocaster, Boss effects, Roland JC amp) with two obscure experimental Japanese artists – hayashipooo on electronics (rhythm machines and synths), and vocals, and nameBYnames on electronics and visuals, recorded in October 2024, at the renowned subterranean experimental venue, Environment0G, in Osaka’s Nishi ward—a district defined by its stark, modern reconstruction following significant air-raid bombing devastation in WWII. This recording was the final