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Japanese multimedia artist Yasunao Tone (1935), founder of the Group Ongaku for art-performance in 1960 and a member of the Fluxus movement since 1962, began by toying with John Cage's indeterminate music and the nascent field of computer music (One Man Show by a Composer, 1962; Theater Piece for Computer, 1966). Tone relocated to the USA in 1972. His recordings include: Musica Iconologos (Lovely Music, 1993), that translates visual images (Chinese texts) into sounds, Solo for Wounded CD (Tzadik, 1997), a "concrete" collage of damaged discs a` la Milan Knizak (a concept that he had already experimented in Music for...