Toshi Tsuchitori was born in 1950 in Kagawa in Japan. He began playing traditional Japanese drums as a child. He has been performing internationally since the Seventies with a variety of specialists in free-form improvisation, including Steve Lacy, Milford Graves and Derek Baily. He began working with Peter Brook’s theatre company in 1976. Since then, he has written the music for the plays “Ubu”, The Conference of the Birds”, L’os”, The Mahabharata”, The Tempest and “The Tragedy of Hamlet”. He has researched traditional music styles from around the world and shares the results of his research on the earliest manifestations Japanese music. He published a series of prehistoric Japanese sounds, under the titles “Dotaku”, Sanukaito, and “Jomonko”, as well as two books, his autobiography, “Spiral arms” and “The Sounds of Jomon”, a study of prehistoric Japanese music. from http://www.020304.ruhrtriennale.de
