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Rites of String

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

David McNeill
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Mizushima Kazue has blended the world of avant garde experimental music and dance with an adaptation of a simple children's toy.

When installation sound artist Mizushima Kazue shows off her ‘orchestra’ in a makeshift studio in Tokyo, it is a shock to discover that the only instrument is what looks like a giant clothesline strung with thread and coffee cups. But then this slight elf of a woman slips on a pair of white gloves and begins to pluck at the strings of the clothesline, and a pitch-perfect version of the Beatles’ ‘Yesterday’ fills the room.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 2 , Issue 9 , September 2004 , e12
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