Born in Tokyo. Started his career in experimental firm and video art in 1981.From middle of 80's,he gradually turned into music through performing art,contributing to the development of the Japanese noise music in its early period with other pioneers such as Merzbow. He spreads his activities over Europe since 1998,with many concerts not only CD releases,corroborating with Zbigniew Karkowski,Kasper T. Toeplitz and Leif Elggren. He achieved the premier show of his newest experimental noise opera,"Othello",at Podwil in Berlin in 2001.He stayed in Berlin as a artist residence of Podewil in 2003. During them he had premieres of "Wozzeck" at Podewil in Berlin and "Auditory Sence of Mr.Roderick Usher" at Dresdner Zentrums für zeditgenössische Musik (DZzM) in Dresden. "Auditory Senced...."won the BLAUE BRÜCKE prize 2003. “Motome-Zuka” radio version won second prize of The Internationales Festivals für Hörkunst 2007 by Akademie der Hünste of Berlin. He has collaboration works with Achim Wollscheid, Lillevän, Dickson Dee, Akemi Takeya, Sigrid Schnückel and .....
71 minutes of experimental noise jazz.
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|˟˟| (pronounced 'gate') is a Tokyo-based experiment in solo improvisation on multiple instruments simultaneously. The project’s music is influenced / inspired by among others free jazz, noise, drone, industrial, and Mongolian and Japanese traditional music. See profile page for more information and links.
featuring kayoko masuda (voice), andreas geyer (bass clarinet) and others total playing time: 73 minutes comes as a factory-made cd with eight-page booklet