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Yasunao Tone (刀根 康尚, Tone Yasunao) (b. 1935) is a multi-disciplinary artist born in Tokyo, Japan and working in New York City.


Another work prominently featured by Cunningham’s dance company was Geography and Music, performed from 1979 to 1987.[35] The work was commissioned by the American Dance Festival in Durham for Cunningham’s Roadrunners. The piece comprised a text, a notation for two amplified string instruments (derived from the tablature of ninth-century Chinese pipa music, and a gated audio system.[36] The work features the reading of passages from a late 10th century Chinese encyclopedia, describing various foreign places and people.[35]