You Nakai

You Nakai makes music(ians), dance(rs), haunted musical mansions, nursery rhymes, and other forms of performance as a member of No Collective [nocollective.com], and publishes experimental children’s books written by children and other literary oddities as a member of Already Not Yet [alreadynotyet.org]. As a scholar, he has been conducting extensive research on David Tudor, the results of which have been published as Reminded by the Instruments: David Tudor’s Music (Oxford University Press, 2021) [remindedbytheinstruments.info] as well as the double LP Monobirds: From Ahmedabad to Xenon (Topos, 2021). You is currently affiliated with the University of Tokyo where he engages in performative research on the notion of influence, teaches courses on Fake Western Music History and Pseudo-history of Experimental Music, hosts the Side Effects Lab Of the University of Tokyo [selout.site], and chairs the Department of Avant-garde Arts [departmentofavantgardearts.tokyo/english].