Experimental sound artist and multi-instrumentalist Yoshi Wada died at his home in New York on May 18 at the age of seventy-seven.
Best known for his work with the Fluxus collective, Yoshi Wada is renowned for his use of the bagpipe drone and other sustained resonances produced via homemade instruments in compositions—termed “interart” for their embrace of music, performance, and sculpture—that were typically performed at earsplitting volumes …