< <

Yasunao Tone

Raining, 2010

Multi-channel audio work encoded for 47 channel The Morning Line Sound System

Commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary

Yasunao Tone’s piece which is triggered interactively by the visitors of The Morning Line, consists of recordings of rain and of computer voices reading Guillaume Apollinaire's calligramme poem “Il Pleut" (1916) in French and in English, which fall down the structure like rain. “I was seeking a form that corresponds with The Morning Line and thought that emulating Apollinaire's calligramme with Matthew Ritchie's sculpture is interesting. So, I let the sound of precipitation rain inside the structure. The audience can listen to the illusion of rain and even visualize it.“

*1935 in Tokyo. Active in the Fluxus movement in the 60s, participant in music and performance groups such as Group Ongaku, Hi-Red Center, Team Random.