Mieko Shiomi

A vital tape work returning to circulation thirty-six years after its private cassette debut. Mieko Shiomi's 1990 memorial for George Maciunas, self-released that year on a privately circulated cassette and unheard in proper edition since, now receives a first ever CD reissue, mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. In accordance with the composer's wishes, this edition presents the work's two sides spliced together into a single continuous piece. By 1990 Shiomi had already lived several musical lives. A f…

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Fluxus, I composed eighty short musical pieces for eighty Fluxus people... For each person, I used only the pitches available from the letters spelling his/her name. A different timbre was applied to each person... The artists whose names are musically described are: Dietrich Albrecht, Eric Andersen, Ay-O, Michael Berger, Joseph Beuys, René Block, Luigi Bonotto, George Brecht, Stanley Brouwn, Jean Brown, John Cage, Giuseppe Chiari, Henri Chopin, Henning Chris…