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Yasunao Tone

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Yasunao Tone
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Yasunao Tone (b. 1935, Tokyo) was one of the first Japanese artists active in composing "events" and improvisational music. He is one of the founding members of Japan's Fluxus movement and has also been an organizer and participant in many important music and performance groups such as Group Ongaku, Hi-Red Center, Team Random (the first computer art group organized in Japan). Primarily a composer, Tone has worked in many media, creating pieces for electronics, computer systems, film, radio and television, as well as environmental art. He is a pioneer in the use of prepared CDs.
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Releases:
Musica Iconologos (CD, Album)   Lovely Music, Ltd. 1993
Solo For Wounded CD (CD)   Tzadik 1997
Geography And Music (CD, Mini)   Ashiya City Museum Of Art & History 2001
Wounded Man'Yo #38-9/2001 (CDr, Mini)   Alku 2002
Yasunao Tone (CD)   Asphodel 2003
Palimpsest (CD)   Mego 2004
Event (CD, Album)   Asphodel 2005
Slowscan Vol. 18 (LP)   Slowscan 2005
Noise Media Language (CD, Comp)   Errant Bodies Press 2007
Remixes:
[r*] Iso | Chall (CD) A/S Toned Hecker's Mego 2000
Appears On:
Current Trends In Racism In Modern America (LP)   Sound Aspects Records 1985
FluxTellus (Cass, Comp) Voice Piece For La Mon... Tellus 1990
Upper Air Observation (CD) Trio For Flute Player,... Lovely Music, Ltd. 1992
Music Of Group Ongaku (CD, Album) Automatism, Object, Pa... Hear Sound Art Library 1996
幽閉者 [Prisoner] (CD, Album) Opening Theme, Pistol,... Headz, Headz 2007
Tracks Appear On:
FluxTellus (Cass, Comp) Anagram For Strings Tellus 1990
Prix Ars Electronica CyberArts 2000 (2xCD) Wounded Man Yo 2/2000 ... Ars Electronica Center 2000
Electric Ladyland Clickhop Version 1.0 (2xCD) Another Forensic Charade Mille Plateaux 2001
Un Tributo To James T. Russell, Inventor Of The Compact Disc (CDr) Man'yoshu #37, Wounded Alku 2001
Writing Aloud: The Sonics Of Language (CD, Album) Man'Yoshu #16 Errant Bodies Press, Ground Fault Recordings 2001
10時間 / Ju-Jikan: 10 Hours Of Sound From Japan (2xCD, Album, Comp) Trio For A Flute Player 23five, San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art 2002
Syntax Error (CD, Album) Wounded Man'yo At Love... Cabinet 2002
60 Sound Artists Protest The War (CD, Comp) We Insist Atak 2003
Warpmart Issue 1 (CD, Smplr, Ltd) Man'yo #36-37 / 106501... Warp Records 2003
...as... (2xCDr) [02'00" As] [Untitled] Resonance (UK) 2004
A Call For Silence (CD, Comp) Imperfection Theorem O... Sonic Arts Network 2004
Fluxus Anthology Volume 1 (2 versions) Anagram For Strings Slowscan 2004
ALKUjiggerypokeryMIX (File, MP3) Wounded Man'yo #38-9/2001 Alku 2005
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