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Ikue Mori
Mori in 2017
Background information
Born (1953-12-17) 17 December 1953 (age 70)
Tokyo, Japan
Genres
  • no wave
  • downtown[1]
  • free improvisation
  • Occupation(s)
    • Musician
  • composer
  • graphic designer
  • Instrument(s)
    • Drums
  • drum machine
  • sampler
  • Years active1977–present
    LabelsTzadik

    Ikue Mori (森 郁恵[2], Mori Ikue) (born 17 December 1953), also known as Ikue Ile, is a drummer, electronic musician, composer, and graphic designer. Mori was awarded a "Genius grant" from the MacArthur Foundation in 2022.[3]

    Biography[edit]

    Ikue Mori was born and raised in Japan. She says she had little interest in music before hearing punk rock. In 1977, she went to New York City, initially for a visit, but she became involved in the music scene, and has remained in New York since.

    Her first musical experience was as the drummer for seminal no wave band DNA, which also featured East Village musician Arto Lindsay. Though she had little prior musical experience (and had never played drums), Mori quickly developed a distinctive style: One critic describes her as "a tight, tireless master of shifting asymmetrical rhythm",[4] while Lester Bangs wrote that she "cuts Sunny Murray in my book."[5]

    After DNA disbanded, Mori became active in the New York experimental music scene. She abandoned her drum set, and began playing drum machines, which she sometimes modified to play various samples. According to Mori, she was trying to make the drum machines "sound broken."[6] Critic Adam Strohm writes that she "founded a new world for the instrument, taking it far beyond backing rhythms and robotic fills."[7] In recent years she has used a laptop as her primary instrument, but is still sometimes credited with "electronic percussion".

    In 1995, she began collaborating with Japanese bass guitarist Kato Hideki (from Ground Zero), and together with experimental guitarist Fred Frith (from Henry Cow), they formed Death Ambient. The trio released three albums, Death Ambient (1995), Synaesthesia (1999) and Drunken Forest (2007).

    Beyond her solo recordings, she has recorded or performed with Dave Douglas, Butch Morris, Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, and many others, including as Hemophiliac, a trio with John Zorn and singer Mike Patton, as well as being a member of Zorn's Electric Masada. With Zeena Parkins, she records and tours as duo project Phantom Orchard. She often records on Tzadik, as well as designing the covers for many of their albums.

    Mori has drawn inspiration from visual arts. Her 2000 release, One Hundred Aspects of the Moon was inspired by famed Japanese artist Yoshitoshi. Her 2005 recording, Myrninerest, is inspired by outsider artist Madge Gill.

    Awards[edit]

    Mori received a 2005-2006 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. In 2022 Mori received the MacArthur Fellowship award ("Genius Grant").[8]

    Discography[edit]

    With Lotte Anker & Sylvie Courvoisier

    With Mephista (Mori, Sylvie Courvoisier and Susie Ibarra)

    With Cyro Baptista

    With Dave Douglas

    With Erik Friedlander

    With Fred Frith and Ensemble Modern

    With Maybe Monday

    With Rova::Orchestrova

    With Kim Gordon and DJ Olive

    With George Spanos

    With John Zorn

    With Medicine Singers

    References[edit]

    1. ^ Carlin, Matthew. "Ikue Mori". AllMusic. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  • ^ "Ikue Mori - TOWER RECORDS ONLINE".
  • ^ Stevens, Matt (12 October 2022). "MacArthur Foundation Announces 25 New 'Genius' Grant Winners". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
  • ^ Robbins, Ira; Mark Fleischmann; Robert Payes. "DNA". Trouser Press. Retrieved 12 April 2010.
  • ^ Bangs, Lester (1988). Greil Marcus (ed.). Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung. New York: Vintage Books. p. 303. ISBN 0-679-72045-6.
  • ^ Frank J. Oteri (1 August 2009). "At Home in Strange Lands, Ikue Mori in conversation with Frank J. Oteri, July 16, 2009". NewMusicBox.
  • ^ Strohm, Adam (20 October 2004). "Dusted Review: Zeena Parkins & Ikue Mori - Phantom Orchard". Dusted Magazine. Retrieved 12 April 2010.
  • ^ "Ikue Mori". MacArthur Foundation. 12 October 2022. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
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