Tone continues his refined, elegant work in the transformation of one sense sphere into another (for example, flute tones into computer haiku in "Lyrictron" on Barbara Held's CD in collections), in this beautiful CD: here, the sound is an encoded description, via a video-to-sound transformation array (which brings to mind David Behrman's 70's installation piece "Clouds") which scans Chinese character "poems" describing photographic images into an optical music recognition computer program, a very ...   [ read more ]

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A pioneer of the Fluxus movement since the early '60s, Yasunao Tone has committed many sound experiments to vinyl and CD. This work is the second of his experiments on CDs themselves. Like the first of its kind, Music for 2 CD Players (premiered at the Experimental Intermedia Foundation on March 16, 1986), this album is a recording of the sound that results when a CD is altered so that instead of producing the recording it contains, it skips, squeaks, stutters, and otherwise produces error-generat...   [ read more ]

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