SYR 8: a live record released on Sonic Youth's Sonic Youth records. The CD-only release features a live recording that was billed as 'The Other Side of Sonic Youth'. For this special event the japanese laptop noise monger Masami Akita a.k.a. Merzbow and swedish free jazz saxophonist/reeds player Mats Gustafsson joined the five-piece Sonic Youth. The one hour of improvised music was divided into 5-minute intervals and participants joined and exited during each interval until only Masami Akita was left onstage. Read more on Last.fm