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Title Tashi Wada performing Takehisa Kosugi’s Micro 1 (1961) as part of the event Meaningless Work, Get to Work, curated by Sarah Cooper and Tashi Wada
Maker Takehisa Kosugi (Japanese, 1938–2018)
Date 4 December 2021
Type video
Location Getty Center, Los Angeles

Takehisa Kosugi began his career as a musicology graduate student at Tokyo University of the Arts with Mieko Shiomi as a classmate. Around 1960, he and Shiomi founded Group Ongaku, a collective of composers who engaged in experimental music and improvisation. A year later, Kosugi met Toshi Ichiyanagi and George Maciunas and soon became an affiliate member of Fluxus. This 1961 event score contains the following instructions: “Wrap a live microphone with a very large sheet of paper. Make a tight bundle. Keep the microphone live for another 5 minutes.”

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Kosugi, Takehisa. Tashi Wada performing Takehisa Kosugi’s Micro 1 (1961) as part of the event Meaningless Work, Get to Work, curated by Sarah Cooper and Tashi Wada, 4 December 2021. Getty Center, Los Angeles. In The Scores Project: Experimental Notation in Music, Art, Poetry, and Dance, 1950–1975, ed. Michael Gallope, Natilee Harren, and John Hicks. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2025. https://www.getty.edu/publications/scores/object-index/239/.