Reworked Man'yoshu Reworked

[Mulboyne]

Yasunao Tone
Pitchfork media.com: Yasunao Tone and Hecker Palimpsest
Fluxus veteran and avant-garde maverick Yasunao Tone took an anthology of 8th century Japanese poems and attempted to find their hidden meanings...Tone scanned the Chinese characters on the Man'yoshu prints through a computer and played back the audible verses-- mining the raw data of sounds heard beneath the text. The words are completely lost. The result sounds like a video arcade heard through tinnitus-damaged ears...On Palimpsest, Austrian laptop-noisenik Florian Hecker mutates Tone's "Man'Yo" pieces to decent results. He doesn't remix as much as magnifies every bit of data by 10,000x, uncovering microorganisms that dwell in the poem's fibers and ink.
Additional bio of Tone Here

[puargs]

UUUUUUUGH. The manyoushu was already stifled enough. Don't hurt me anymore.

[djgizmoe]

Gotta agree with Puargs, that sounds like a lot of work when all you end up with is something that sounds like a KID 606 or Merzbow b-side. I guess I prefer the slightly more 'new-school' avante-garde, some of which (both intriguing and annoying) can be found at the Improvised Music from Japan site: http://www.japanimprov.com/