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Kaneda: At that time, did you already have the perception that Group Ongaku was engaged in something very innovative? Tone: Yes. We really did! We thought everyone in the music world was a bunch of old fogeys. You know, the phrase “John Cage shock” was hogwash they made up. On the other hand, there was a man named Hewell Tircuit who wrote a music column for the Japan Times. I think he still lives in Japan. He said what Cage was doing was something that had been developing in Japan for quite a while, and I’m sure he was making a veiled reference to Group Ongaku. So, the whole notion of “John Cage shock” was a fiction! Cage’s music and ideas weren’t such a shock—Japanese people accepted them with relative ease. After all, Cage himself said that Japan was the first country to recognize and understand what he was doing.

From Miki Kaneda's interview with Japanese artist and musician Tone Yasunao. Read it at Post, MoMA's new digital platform for global research, conceived and developed with TC Labs, the consulting wing of Triple Canopy.

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Congratulations to the team at Triple Canopy, who have announced the official launch of TC Labs, a project that "draws upon and helps sustain Triple Canopy’s expansive network of artists, writers, designers, and developers." Good things to come, surely.