You Nakai

You Nakai fabricates music(ians), dance(rs), haunted musical houses, nursery rhymes, and other forms of performances as a member of No Collective, and publishes experimental children’s books and other literary oddities as a member of Already Not Yet. In addition to his artistic output, he has been conducting extensive research on David Tudor’s music, the results of which have been published as Reminded by the Instruments: David Tudor’s Music (Oxford University Press, 2021). The companion website for the book contains photographs of instruments, redrawn diagrams, and transcripts of interviews and talks by Tudor. Other Tudor-related releases include the double LP Monobirds: From Ahmedabad to Xenon (Topos, 2021). He is about to embark on a three-year endeavor called Side Project on the northern island of Japan to explore the possibility of realizing Island Eye Island Ear as well as any by-products such an attempt might produce along the way. You Nakai is currently affiliated with the University of Tokyo where he teaches “Archi-Choreographies,” “Other Musics,” “The Archaeology of Influence,” and "The Staging of Experience," as well as the Kyoto City University of Arts where he teaches “Fake Western Music History” and “Experimental Pet Sounds.”