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Yoshi Wada
Yoshimasa "Yoshi" Wada (11 November 1943 – 18 May 2021) was a Japanese sound art installation artist and Contemporary classical music, new music musician who lived in New York City and then San Francisco, California. Life Born in Japan, after moving to New York City Wada joined the Fluxus movement in 1968 after meeting George Maciunas. Wada then studied music with La Monte Young and the North Indian vocalist Pandit Pran Nath. His works often incorporated the use of Drone (music), drone and were usually performed at a very high volume that allowed for the overtones within the sound to be heard clearly. Wada frequently performed his own compositions, which featured a certain freedom of improvisation, on Great Highland Bagpipe, Scottish highland bagpipe and with his voice. He also employed a number of homemade instruments, including "pipe horns" (very long horn-type instruments made from metal plumbing piping) that he performed, for example, in the ''Public Arts International/Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoshie Wada
was a Japanese novelist and critic. Wada was born in Oshamambe, Hokkaidō, and graduated from Chuo University with a law degree. In addition to his novels in the naturalist tradition, he edited the diaries of Ichiyō Higuchi and Fumiko Hayashi. He received one of the 13th Japan Art Academy Prizes (1956) for ', the 50th Naoki Prize (1963下) for ', and the 26th Yomiuri Prize The is a literary award in Japan. The prize was founded in 1949 by the Yomiuri Shinbun Company to help form a "strong cultural nation". The winner is awarded two million Japanese yen and an inkstone. Award categories For the first two years, a ... (1974) for '. Selected works * ''Higuchi Ichiyō'', Chikuma Shobō, 1954 * ''Hayashi Fumiko'', Chikuma Shobō, 1961 * ''Aijō no kiroku'', Chikuma Shobō, 1969 * ''Ichiyō tanjō'', Gendai Shokan, 1969 References External links OpenLibrary entries Japanese writers 1906 births 1977 deaths Writers from Hokkaido Chuo University alumni Naoki Prize w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
