Multidisciplinary artist Nobuo Kubota was a ‘virtuoso of the spontaneous’ | Unpublished
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Author: Brad Wheeler
Publication Date: October 28, 2025 - 16:23

Multidisciplinary artist Nobuo Kubota was a ‘virtuoso of the spontaneous’

October 28, 2025

At Toronto’s Music Gallery in 1977, Japanese-Canadian multidisciplinary artist Nobuo Kubota installed a sound sculpture composed of five steel blades and a corresponding number of speakers and organ pedals. From this came a stream of growls and rumbles which had been passed through a synthesizer.

When Globe and Mail critic Adele Freedman expressed to the artist that the noise left her “overwhelmed, even oppressed,” Mr. Kubota instantly understood the reaction and offered help.



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