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Artist:
TONE, YASUNAO
Title:
Yasunao Tone
Label:
ASPHODEL
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.00
Catalog #:
ASPH 2011CD
"Yasunao Tone's near-half century's worth of work links contemporary electronic music with the historical avant-garde. One of the founding members of Japan's Fluxus Movement and an early associate of Yoko Ono and the late John Cage, 67 year-old New York resident Yasunao Tone has been composing experimental sound pieces since the early 1960s. A member of Japan's first computer art group, Team Random, who programmed Univac mainframes to perform Tone's own compositions, Tone has maintained a lifelong fascination with manipulating technology for his own musical ends. Tone's first composition using CD players, the appropriately titled
Music for 2 CD Players
, made its NEA-sponsored debut in 1982. Not long thereafter, Tone began composing pieces based on overriding the error-correction systems of consumer CD players in order to generate new strings of random digital sound. A pioneer in the use of prepared CDs, Tone first scratched his own self-described 'wounded' scotch tape and pinhole-punctured compact disc in 1985. With previous works performed by John Cage, commissions on behalf of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, installations at 1990's Venice Biennale, and 1993's Whitney Biennale, and releases on the Lovely Music (
Musica Iconologos
) and Tzadik labels (
Solo For Wounded
CD), Tone makes his Asphodel debut with this new full-length recording of intensely visceral, conceptual noise."
Artist:
TONE, YASUNAO
Title:
Musica Iconologos
Label:
LOVELY MUSIC
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.00
Catalog #:
LCD 3041
Originally released in 1993. "Yasunao Tone and Craig Kendall, image selection and processing; Craig Kendall, computer programming, digital sound creation and manipulation; John D.S. Adams, assistant producer and audio consultant. A surprising release from the radical Fluxus composer -- an encoded description of the visual image in utmost detail. In the mythical future somebody can translate the sounds of this compact disc back into pictures."
Artist:
TONE, YASUNAO
Title:
Solo For Wounded
Label:
TZADIK
Format:
CD
Price:
$14.50
Catalog #:
TZ 7212
"A founding member of the Fluxus Movement with Takehisa Kosugi, Yoko Ono and George Maciunas, Yasunao Tone has been doing experimental sound pieces since the early 1960s. For the past ten years much of his work has centered on extending the possibilities of CDs as a performance medium. With this new CD, Tone has created a new noise music for the 21st century: a symphony of digital errors that reaches a new extreme in intensity and musical energy."
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