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Toshi Ichiyanagi is among Japan’s most imaginative composers. Influenced from the avant garde functions of John Cage, Ichiyanagi offers consistently found fresh ways to communicate his musical eyesight. His 1960 structure, “Kaiki,” mixed Japanese devices, sho and koto, and traditional western devices, harmonica and saxophone. His 1967 piece, “Prolonged Voices” …
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Delivered in Tokyo, Takehisa Kosugi is among the true pioneers of Japan avant-garde music-making. Beneath the spell of NY School composers such as for example John Cage and Morton Feldman, Kosugi co-founded the Group Ongaku with Toshi Ichiyanagi, Yasuhisa Shade, Akimichi Takeda, Mieko Shiomi, Yuji Takahashi, and Nobutaka Mizuno. On …
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