Yu Nakai

Born in Japan and raised in the UK and Mexico, Yu Nakai often engages in music composition and performance. His works include "why not gramophone" and "pictogramophone," performed at BankArt in Yokohama in 2004. As a scholar, his extensive research on the work of John Cage focuses on the composer’s use of media technology and its relationship to his notational methods. The result has been assembled in his MA thesis for the University of Tokyo, "The medium of silence/Silence of the medium — The manner of operation in John Cage’s work." Since 2001, he has been involved with the Yotsuya Art Studium in various capacities — as a student, researcher, translator, instructor and editorial staff of the magazine artictoc. He has recently started a music blog.

• Poetry Project Newsletter review. Fall 2007.
• Rain Taxi review by Laura Sims Vol. 12 No. 3, Fall 2007
• Midwest Book Review, Small Press, March 2007
• PENNsound readings from the Festival of Contemporary Japanese Women Poets.