Asian ensemble finds harmony in noise

Calling themselves the Far East Network, the quartet loosely revolves around Otomo Yoshihide, a leading force in Japan's onkyo-kei scene of experimental noise that emerged in Tokyo in the late 1990s. The ensemble has been performing together periodically since 2008 but has come to New York to record for the first time, hoping to produce an album. In a studio resembling a treehouse in Brooklyn's waterfront Red Hook neighborhood, Otomo meticulously manipulated his guitar's sound, sticking in allig