https://kiku-hibino.bandcamp.com/album/sky-trajectories

Synthesizers: Kikù Hibino
Voice: Whitney Johnson
Text: Anne Carson

Recorded by Kate In (Track 3-6, 8) at Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago.
Mixed by Taylor Deupree (Track 6) and Troy Cruz (Track 10).

Mastered by Taylor Deupree / 12K mastering.

Track 10 was recorded live at Wrightwood659 on June 23, 2023, for Kongkee's " Warring States Cyberpunk " exhibition and performed using Eurorack modular and Buchla 208C. Recording engineer was Troy Cruz from Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago.

“Decreation was first published by Alfred A. Knopf, Penguin Random House © 2005. Quoted with permission of Anne Carson and Aragi Inc. All rights reserved.”

Sky Trajectories

dddddbbbbb (from the album "Sky Trajectories" / SUPERPANG)

Ultramarine (Demo)

Vortex (Demo)

Plate Convergence Sound track. Collaboration with Theaster Gates at Hyde Park Art Center in 2007.

Plate Convergence Soundtrack

Difference

Collaboration with Theaster Gates at Hyde Park Art Center in 2007.

Yamaguchi

Intermezzo

Convergence

Commissioned by Montana State University for Hiroshima Atomic bomb poster exhibit in 2008.

eightfifteen-eleventwo

eightfifteen-eleventwo (2008)

Commercial Works 2004-2006

Etching - Promenade

poetry reading by norma field
music by kiku hibino aka oto

curated by ryuichi sakamoto

composed for stop-rokkasho.org, anti-nuclear reprocessing plant in rokkasho, aomori, japan.

stop-rokkasho

before then

The Wire (2007, issue 279)

Time Capsule Sunday by Oto

Having produced music for Sony, Mercedes-Benz and Heinz, Chicago based sound designer Kiku Hibino has recently worked on the Stop-Rokkasho campaign, curated by Ryuichi Sakamoto, to raise public awareness of nuclear reprocessing plants. This, his first collection, concerns itself with themes of capturing and preserving fleeting moments: opener "Daidai" shakes and trembles like a half-remembered Japanese folk tune. Elsewhere the composer uses the noises made by skipping CDs as his source material, building them up into randomly shimmering tunes that rapidly come and go, often disappearing beneath processed recordings of busy streets and crowded playgrounds, as if he were trying to cram in as many memories as possible before it all disappears.

Reviewed by Ken Hollings

Time Capsule Sunday

Momo (from album Time Capsule Sunday)

Inspired by the intricate beauty of human languages, natural patterns, optical illusions, and moiré effects, sound artist Kikù Hibino creates electronic compositions that challenge traditional rhythmic structures and melodies, inviting listeners into a world where linear and non-linear elements converge harmoniously.

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