Born in 1953 in Isehara City, Kanagawa Pref., Japan.
Graduates from the Composition Department of the Showa College of
Music and the art school Kosugi Takehisa Music Forum. From this
period TADA began artistic activities in improvisational music,
photography and film. Entering the 1980s TADA's improvisational
performances began to take on a strong physical (bodily) aspect
and he comes to call his live performances "sound encounters."
These performances include installations using photographs and video
that integrate with the sound to create a unique experiential world.
In the latter part of the '80s TADA also continues taking photographs
of the sky from his window and develops a new creative style which
he blows up the photos into large prints on which he etches his
own figure with an electric soldering gun. For one year beginning
in late 1999, TADA resides in the Netherlands on a research grant
from the Japanese Ministry of Culture. This year produces new photographic
series of "Flower Horses", carnivals, fireworks and moving
train window photographs (video??). For the exhibition "The
Horse - A Homage" which opened at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum
of Photography on December 4, 2001, Tada further expanded his art
with a much acclaimed installation with 108 "Flower Horses"
photographs, video and drawings.
