Toshiji Mikawa – Radio Code [CD] Ambient / New Age Controlled Bleeding

Controlled Bleeding

video artist

Hear the click of the stopping and starting Tascam 3340 open-reel tape machine as one hand presses the "record" and "play" buttons and the other plays piano phrases

staccato rhythms

building on the 2002 installation work ViewFinder

Toshiji Mikawa – Radio Code [CD] Ambient / New Age Controlled Bleeding"Urashima present a reissue of Toshiji Mikawa's Radio Code, originally released on cassette in 1989. Toshiji Mikawa started his musical activities in the late 1970s and joined the legendary and notorious Japanese noise legend Hijokaidan. In 1981 he formed Incapacitants to pursue his interest in pure noise, in contrast to the more performance art oriented Hijokaidan at that time. Initially a solo project, later he was joined by Fumio Kosakai to make