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Kosugi, Takehisa, 1938-2018

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Personal name headingKosugi, Takehisa, 1938-2018
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Variant(s)小杉武久, 1938-2018
Birth date1938-03-14
Death date2018-10-12
Place of birthTokyo (Japan)
Place of deathAshiya-shi (Japan)
Field of activityAvant-garde (Music) Fluxus (Group of artists) Multimedia installations (Art)
AffiliationMerce Cunningham Dance Company
Profession or occupationComposers Violinists
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Found inHis Violin improvisations [SR] p1990: label (Takehisa Kosugi) insert (b. Tokyo, 1938; resident composer and performer with Merce Cunningham Dance Company since 1977)
Lovely Music Web site, Apr. 19, 2011 (Takehisa Kosugi creates mixed-media sound performances and installations; b. Tokyo, 1938; associated with Fluxus group of artists)
New York times WWW site, viewed Oct. 19, 2018 (in obituary published Oct. 18: Takehisa Kosugi; b. Mar. 14, 1938, Tokyo; d. Oct. 12, Ashiya City, aged 80; avant-garde composer who was an accomplished violinist but who was just as likely to play bicycle spokes or inflatable balls in his innovative explorations of the sonic landscape; associated with the Fluxus movement)