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2018-10-19 19:36:59
Experimental Japanese composer and violinist Takeshita Kosugi has passed away – aged 80. A graduate of the Tokyo University of the Arts, Mr Kosugi will be remembered for his close association with the interdisciplinary ‘Fluxus Movement’ of the 1960s and 70s – an experimental art form focused primarily on the artistic process over the finished […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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ArtsJournal: music
2018-10-17 13:17:46
Takehisa Kosugi, Fluxus Composer-Violinist-Sound Artist, Dead At 80
“In 1960, Kosugi cofounded Group Ongaku, a Tokyo-based collective widely considered the first improvisational music ensemble formed in both the country and the world. … After allying himself with the Fluxus movement and participating in Happenings, he toured in a Volkswagen van from Rotterdam to the Taj Mahal as part of the Taj Mahal Travelers. […]
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2016-01-17 12:27:26
Naked cellist gets the show of her life
[…] she talks about her nudity as “the costume.” Charlotte was fearless about putting this raw material of her body at the disposal of art, but also, deploying it to make art herself. In the way that some artists use canvas and a brush, she used her nudity. Icons of the avant-garde: Publicity photograph for 3rd Annual New York Avant-Garde Festival, August 26, 1965. Left to right: Nam June Paik, Charlotte Moorman, Takehisa Kosugi, Gary Harris, Dick Higgins, Judith Kuemmerle, Kenneth King, Meredith Monk, Al Kurchin, Phoebe Neville. In front, kneeling, Philip Corner and James Tenney. (Photo, Peter Moore. Photograph © Barbara Moore/Licensed by VAGA, NY)
2015-10-14 01:01:00
[…] invaded China. Germany and Japan became wartime allies since both had a common enemy : Russia. At the time neither was at war with the west. The Germans were happy to support Japan's invasion of China. Both countries wanted Lebenstraum. In Daughter of the Samurai, a Japanese man who speaks German and a German woman who speaks Japanese meet on board ship. Teruo Yamato (whose name means "Japan" is played by Isamu Kosugi, a star and director in the Japanese film industry which was as sophistuicated and active as anything in Europe. Therein lies some of the tension in the background. In theory The film was a joint Gertman/Japanese venture, but the Germans won. Daughter of the Samurai is totally Eurocentric. It is not racist, because the Japanese are treated with sympathy. There are good shots of Japanese progress, eg modern buildings, fast trains, neon lights […]
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