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ID: 500350828
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500350828

 

Record Type: Person
Wada, Yoshimasa (Japanese composer and musician, 1943-2021)

Note: Born in Japan, and active in New York and San Francisco, Wada joined the Fluxus movement in 1968 after meeting George Maciunas. He studied with the North Indian vocalist Pandit Pran Nath. Wada incorporated the use of drone and his works were usually performed at very high volume. He frequently performed his own compositions on Scottish highland bagpipe, and also created his own instruments from metal plumbing pipe and large reed instruments involving multiple bagpipe-like pipes connected to air compressors

Names:
Wada, Yoshi (preferred,V,index)
Yoshi Wada (V,display)
Wada, Yoshimasa (U,LC,English-P,NA,U)
Yoshimasa Wada (U)
ואדה, יושימאסה (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)

Nationalities:
Japanese (preferred)

Roles:
artist (preferred)
composer (music)
musician
sound artist
installation artist

Gender: male

Events:
publication:   release, "Earth Horns with Electric Drone"  Japan (Asia) (nation)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
member of ....  Fluxus  
................  (International group of artists, active 1960s-late 1970s) [500125040]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Non-Artists
 ........  Wada, Yoshimasa (I,U)

Biographies:
(Japanese composer and musician, 1943-2021) ..... [VP Preferred]
(artist) ..... [GRI Special Collections]
(Japanese artist, born 1943) ..... [IMJ]
(Japanese artist, born 1943) ..... [MoMA]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
ואדה, יושימאסה ........ [IMJ]
............................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
Wada, Yoshi ........ [MoMA Preferred, VP]
........................  Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon / Artists of the World (2009-) accessed 15 August 2018
........................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
Wada, Yoshimasa ........ [GRISC Preferred, IMJ Preferred, VP]
................................  GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-) 890164
................................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
................................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) nr91025406, accessed 29 September 2016
Yoshimasa Wada ........ [GRISC, VP]
..............................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Yoshi Wada ........ [MoMA, VP]
......................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
......................  VIAF: Virtual International Authority File [online] (2009-) accessed 29 September 2016

Subject: ........ [GRISC, IMJ, MoMA, VP]
....................  GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-)
....................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
....................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) nr91025406, accessed 29 September 2016
....................  VIAF: Virtual International Authority File [online] (2009-) accessed 29 September 2016
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... New York Times [online] (2000-) obit.
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