Takehisa Kosugi

Tokyo violinist Takehisa Kosugi was a major figure in the Japanese avant-garde scene starting in the late 1950s. As one of the earliest musicians to bring Fluxus and improvisational movements to Japan, Kosugi's historical importance cannot be underestimated, and he continued to make music that was as vital and modern as the music he'f made decades earlier. Kosugi was born in Tokyo in 1938 and graduated from the Tokyo University of Arts in 1962 with a degree in Musicology. At the university Kosugi started the Group Ongaku, perhaps the earliest collective improvisational group i...