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Yasunao Tone, the Pioneering Composer Who Changed Music Forever
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An exhibition dedicated to the Japanese-American musician in New York proves that, even in comparison to glitch masters like Aphex Twin and Autechre, Tone’s compositions are still radical today
TextTaylor Dafoe
Imagine erratic static, metallic squeals and cacophonous spikes of white noise harsh enough to make you fear for your hearing.
Yasunao tone biography
It all sounds like a broken CD that’s been crudely reconstructed and shoved back into its player. In fact, that’s exactly what it is. Solo for Wounded is a two-part, minute musical piece by the Japanese-American critic and composer Yasunao Tone.
To create the work’s almost unendurable sound, Tone poked pinholes on strips of scotch tape and slapped them on the underside of a copy of Debussy’s Préludes – then recorded the results.
“I wondered if it was possible to override the [CD player’s] error-correcting system,” Tone recalled in the liner n