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Ikue Mori is a japanese experimental music composer, born 1953.
She entered the music industry with punk band DNA playing drums with no previous experience. After it 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." Critic Adam Strohm writes that she "founded a new world for the instrument, taking it far beyond backing rhythms and
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Ikue Mori is a japanese experimental music composer, born 1953.
She entered the music industry with punk band DNA playing drums with no previous experience. After it 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." Critic Adam Strohm writes that she "founded a new world for the instrument, taking it far beyond backing rhythms and
robotic fills." In recent years she has used a laptop as her primary instrument, but is still sometimes credited with "electronic
percussion".
Mori has drawn inspiration from visual arts. Her 2000 release, One Hundred Aspects of the Moon was inspired by famed
Japanese artist Yoshitoshi and her 2005 recording, Myrninerest, was inspired by outsider artist Madge Gill. « hide |
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