Wounded Man'yo 2/2000

Yasunao Tone's “Wounded Man'yo 2/2000” was honoured with a Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2000, category Digital Musics & Sound Art. Yasunao Tone has 1 more work in this atlas.

Negotiating the limits of recording, meaning identical repetitions over and over etc., with analog and digital technology is one of the objectives of my pieces.Together with Dr. Fujinaga of Peabody Conservatory, as a software designer, I have been working on a CD-ROM project since 1997.

About Yasunao Tone

Yasunao Tone (J), born in Tokyo in 1935 and graduated from Chiba Japanese National University in 1957 with a major in Japanese literature. He co-founded the GROUP ONGAKU in 1960, and began participating in the FLUXUS movement in 1962.

Programme information from Prix Ars Electronica Archive. Short excerpt quoted for reference; see the original page for full text, images and credits.

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