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Yasunao Tone

Musica simulacra

Label: Atak

Format: CDbox

Genre: Music from Japan

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Tone Yasunao's lifework, "MUSICA SIMULACRA," planned and produced for 14 years, has finally been completed. ATAK releases a limited edition box set (limited to 500 in the world) including more than 2000 hours of 4516 Manyosyu poems recreated in sound using Tone's original software on CD-ROM, over 60 minutes of 12 pieces extracted from the CD-ROM and edited by Keiichiro Shibuya on audio CD, a 47 pages booklet written by Tone himself and a limited edition autograph. This is the intersection of conceptual and technological art.

This box set includes 4 contents as the following below:

1. MUSICA SIMULACRA CD-ROM (1996–2010)
Sound art by converting whole texts from 4,516 poems found in the Man’yōshū (Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves, 759, the oldest existing collection of Japanese poetry. Compilation attributed to Otomo no Yakamochi). More than 2000 hours of recording time. Playable on Mac and Windows.

2. MUSICA SIMULACRA CD
Audio CD version including 12 tracks taken from 2000 hours of MUSICA SIMULACRA CD-ROM, produced and edited by Keiichiro Shibuya. Playable on regular CD player and computer.

3. MUSICA SIMULACRA TEXT
10,000-character (Japanese), 4,000-word (English) and 48-page
commentary booklet written by Yasunao Tone. Provided in Japanese and English.

4. 500 COPIES OF LIMITED EDITION WITH AUTOGRAPH
The autograph of Yasunao Tone enclosed within 500 copies of limited edition exclusively.
Tone signed with a magic marker on a piece of a old book which is owned by him.

Details
Cat. number: Atak 016
Year: 2011
Notes:

Limited numbered edition of 500 copies in a box, with an autograph and a 48 page booklet of notes in Japanese and English.

CD-ROM contains sound art made by converting the whole texts from 4516 poems found in the Man'yōshū ("Ten Thousand Leaves"). Includes more than 2000 hours of recording. Playable on Mac and Windows (Mac OS X v10.4 and later; Windows XP Service Pack 2 and later).

Mastered at Kimken Studio, 2010. Published by ATAK. Abode Director Project Modernization: CStream. Authoring by Epsilon, Inc.
© 2011 Yasunao Tone
℗+© 2011 ATAK