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"Yasunao Tone (b. 1932, Tokyo) founded the Group Ongaku in 1960, a group devoted to creating 'event music' and improvisational music. He began participating in the Fluxus movement in 1962, and has been in events and shows in numerous places. Tone also composed a great deal of experimental music for use in films, theater and dance pieces. Since coming to the United States in 1972, he has composed four scores for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and has given many solo concerts as well as participating in numerous Fluxus concerts. Since 1976, Tone has been designing musical compositions as a compound of cultural studies that have been ideas based on post-structuralist theories and audio visual materials compiled with ancient Oriental texts and musical sounds".