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I n M a r c h 19 9 6 , w e m a d e a
performance using multidirectional
live communications which linked
the four stations in Tokyo, Fukui,
Yu g a w a r a , O s l o ( N o r w a y ) t o
share a communication figurative
score. (Sound: 7Khz, Image: Live
video, par ticipants: 20 people
approximately). As shown in the
picture, performers play their own
instruments by their own rules
of expression. Normally we play
music by reading a score written
on a scale of five, but a “figurative
score” dev is e d by J ohn C age
consists of abstract figures. In our
“Communication Figurative Score”,
we send a figurative score to each
 of the remote stations and exchange
COMMUNICATION  LNDRAS NETS I / sounds online. Participants at the
FIGURATIVE SCORE SLIDING PAPER DOOR stations play music while listening to
NUMBER 1 INSTRUMENT NO.3 the sounds so the total performance
WORLD TRADE NETWORK GURZENICH KÖLN STATION is in harmony. The figurative score
ART 1996 - K-BIT INSTITUTE, OCTOVER includes both still and moving
LAFORET MUSEUM 1997 ( KÖLN: KOKEN images, such as abstract figures
LIKURA / K-BIT INSTITUTE NOMURA AND AXEL and landscape images.In contrast
/ OSLO /KOGOMENOYU WIRTHS, K-BIT: AKIHIKO to an orchestra or film that takes
(YUGAWARA), MARSCH SHIBATA) the pyramidal structure where many
24TH 1996 serve under a conductor or director,
our network art is a collaborative
performance made up of an equal
relation among all the performers.
Like interactive communications
on the phone, performers follow
their own ways of expression in
reading the figurative score and yet
coordinate the whole music. It can be
said that the 20 participants form a
ring of human network.

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