Takehisa Kosugi

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Takehisa Kosugi (born Tokyo, Japan, 1938) is a Japanese composer and violinist associated with the Fluxus movement. Kosugi studied musicology at the Tokyo University of the Arts and graduated in 1962. Kosugi is probably best known for the extraordinary experimental music that he created in 1960-75, first in the early 1960s with the Tokyo-based seven-member ensemble Group Ongaku ("music group") and thereafter as a solo artist and with itinerant octet Taj Mahal Travellers (1969-75). Kosugi's primary instrument is the violin, which he sends through various echo-chambers and effects to create a bizarre, jolting music quite at odds with the drones of other more well-known Fluxus artists, such as Tony Conrad, John Cale and Henry Flynt.