Tetsuo Furudate

Tetsuo Furudate is a Japanese composer and artist from Tokyo. He started in experimental film and video art in 1981 and moved into music and performance from the mid-1980s. He belongs to the first generation of the Japanese noise scene and is known for World as Will, his long project with Zbigniew Karkowski, named after Schopenhauer's book. Furudate and Karkowski were friends and collaborators in Japan, and some World as Will pieces were later arranged for the Zeitkratzer ensemble.