Tetsuo Furudate (古館徹夫), originally from Tokyo, Japan, started his career in experimental film and video art in 1981. From the middle of 1980's he gradually turned toward music through performing art, contributing to the development of the Japanese noise music in its early period with other pioneers such as Merzbow. He has spread his activities throughout Europe since 1998, with many concerts and CD releases, collaborating with Zbigniew Karkowski, Kasper T. Toeplitz and Leif Elggren. He achieved the premier show of his experimental noise opera, Othello, at Podwil in Berlin in 2001. During his time in Berlin he held premieres of Wozzeck at Podewil in Berlin and Auditory Sence of Mr.Roderick Usher at Dresdner Zentrums für zeditgenössische Musik (DZzM) in Dresden. The latter won him the Blaue Brücke prize 2003. Throughout his carreer, he has collaborated with such acts as Achim Wollscheid, Lillevän, Akemi Takeya or Sigrid Schnückel among others. http://www.tetsuofurudate.info <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Tetsuo+Furudate">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.