Published
Tue, Oct 20, 2015, 14:05
- The Fluxus composer will recreate an early 1970s work in November.
ISSUE Project Room will host Yoshi Wada and Tashi Wada at the Emily Harvey Foundation in Manhattan on November 5th and 6th.
Composer and instrument builder Yoshi Wada is best known for his experiments in Downtown New York's avant-garde scene in the '60s and '70s. He was part of the Fluxus movement, an international network which spanned numerous disciplines and counted Yoko Ono and La Monte Young among its adherents.
"Wada began building homemade music instruments and writing compositions for them based on his personal research in timbre, resonance, and improvisation with the overtone series," ISSUE curators say. "[His] performances and sound installations offer audiences the opportunity to consider what we hear, the way we hear it, and what hearing means."
ISSUE will host Yoshi Wada and his son, Tashi, for two performances of Earth Horns with Electronic Drone, an early 1970s work performed on four homemade pipe horn instruments, as well as organ and electronics. For more info and tickets, check out their official site.
Watch a 2014 performance from the father and son duo below.