Intuitive Music

Tone was a founding member of the improvisation band Group Ongaku in 1960 and participated in the Fluxus movement in 1962. In 1972 he moved to the US and has composed numerous experimental works for films and dance, many of them focused on post-structuralist theories. Hecker is one of the most reputed digital artists from the last decade whose latest productions incorporate psycho-acoustic effects with the goal of disorientating the listener’s spatial perception.

Yasunao Tone and Hecker offer a 100% glitch work, only for strict lovers of the most experimental digital electronica. In their interest for the arbitrary manipulation of errors produced by digital technology, the artists have embarked on this peculiar project based in the edition of sounds created by the alteration of CD information. The final product of this uncontrollable and unpredictable alteration has as a result a series of aggressive digital samples that often reach the boundaries of auditive permission.

For this work, Tone and Hecker have created a series of sounds from the digital conversion of image files to audio files. This is a proposal that follows John Cage’s tradition of leaving decisions to chance during the creative process. It’s just another way of making music as valid as any other for the creators, though some people like me still think that chance doesn’t exist, that the Cagean theory is a fallacy, and that in music what matters is not the process but the result. Everybody must find it’s sense.