East Bionic Symphonia

East Bionic Symphonia was a Japanese collective of improvisers formed in Tokyo in the mid-1970s by students of Takehisa Kosugi at the Bigakko art school. The group is known for a single album of collective free improvisation, recorded as their graduation project, edited by Kosugi and released on ALM Records in 1976. The original line-up included Kazuo Imai, Kaoru Okabe, Yasushi Ozawa, Tomonao Koshikawa, Hiroshi Shii, Masami Tada, Tatsuo Hattori, Kazuaki Hamada, Masaharu Minegishi and Chie Mukai. Several members went on to work in underground music and the visual arts.