Ikue Mori

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Ikue Mori at the Moers Festival 2017

Ikue Mori ( Japanese も り い く え , Mori Ikue ; born December 17, 1953 in Tokyo Prefecture , also known as Ikue Ile ) is a Japanese avant-garde musician (drums, electronics, composition) and graphic designer . Through her unconventional use of samplers , laptops and other possibilities of electronic sound manipulation, she "permanently changed the sound spectrum in jazz and pop."

Live and act

Mori first lived in Japan, where she studied at the Takabi Art School . In 1977 the artist went to New York City for a visit , where she has lived ever since. In 1978 she founded the No Wave band DNA with Arto Lindsay and Robin Crutchfield (later: Tim Wright) , which first attracted attention on Brian Eno's compilation No New York . The group structured free improvisations and noise experiments in the format of rock songs. She then founded the women's bands Sunset Chorus (in New York) and Electrified Fukuko (in Japan). She also worked with John Zorn , Elliott Sharp , Tom Cora , Zeena Parkins and Jim Staley . In 1993 she worked with the singer Tenko in Death Praxis . In 1995 the album Painted Dessert was released , which she recorded with Marc Ribot and Robert Quine . In the same year she founded the trio Death Ambient with Kato Hideki and Fred Frith , which released the albums Death Ambient (1995), Synaesthesia (1999) and Drunken Forest (2007).

Since 1985 Mori has increasingly been using the drum computer instead of the drums , with which she has created her very own, sensitive style. Since the turn of the millennium, a laptop has also been used in the artist's projects, with which she was able to better control signal tones and considerably expand her sound options.

In 1999 Mori worked with Kim Gordon , Thurston Moore , Jim O'Rourke and Stephen Malkmus on the Kim's Bedroom project . In the Trio Mephista she worked with the pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and the drummer Susie Ibarra . In 2002 she performed with Marina Rosenfeld at the Donaueschinger Musiktage .

In addition to albums under her own name (such as The Garden , 1996) and soundtracks, for example for Abigail Child, she has worked with Dave Douglas , Butch Morris , DJ Olive , Mr. Bungle , Annie Gosfield, Caetano Veloso , Mark Nauseef , Mike Patton , the Rova Saxophone Quartet , Lotte Anker and the Ensemble Modern . They also designed the album cover for 1930 by Merzbow .

Honourings and prices

In 1999 Mori received the Prix ​​Ars Electronica for digital music. In 2006 she was honored with the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award .

Discographic notes

  • Obelisk (Tzadik, 2017)

literature

Web links

Commons : Ikue Mori  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolf Kampmann, Reclams Jazzlexikon , p. 369.
  2. ^ Adam Strohm ( Memento from September 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Mori, Ikue
ALTERNATIVE NAMES も り い く え (Japanese); Ile, Ikue
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese musician and graphic designer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th December 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo prefecture