BLACKOUT. Representation, transformation and de-control in the sound work of Yasunao Tone

Downloable essay on the work of Yasunao Tone, available at: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/qa/QA_01/QA_01.pdf

Yasunao Tone (Tokyo, 1935) is a Japanese interdisciplinary artist. He graduated from Chiba Japanese National University in 1957, majoring in Japanese literature. He became active in the Fluxus movement in the 1960s and moved to the United States in 1972. He organised and participated in many experimental music and performance groups such as Group Ongaku, Hi-Red Center and Team Random (the first computer art group in Japan). His unconventional musical work brings together certain forms of traditional Eastern culture and post-structuralist theories, and since the mid to late nineties has become a notable influence on new generations of sound artists worldwide. He lives and works in New York.

You can also listen to his commission for Ràdio Web MACBA at: http://bit.ly/c27vJy