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Short Bio:
Kato Hideki (Kato:family name; Hideki: given) is a Japanese-born musician, composer & sound artist, who lives in Brooklyn, NYC. His work resides in the fields of music and the sound art. He is the co-founder of Death Ambient with Ikue Mori & Fred Frith. His other groups as a leader are: Green Zone with Otomo Yoshihide & Uemura Masahiro; OMNI wtih Nakamura Toshimaru & Akiyama Tetsuji. His compositions include: solo bass piece Turbulent Zone, Mystic Ship of Life, (commissioned by the Kitchen, NYC) and Tremolo of Joy for his quartet with Charles Burnham, Briggan Krauss & Calvin Weston. Most recent project is Plastic Spoon with Karen Mantler, Douglas Wieselman & Shahzad Ismaily. As a bassist, he has worked with Eyvind Kang, Karen Mantler, Zeena Parkins, Marc Ribot, Jim Pugliese, John Zorn among many others. Besides his own projects, Kato collaborates with Nicolas Collins, James Fei, Christian Marclay, Ursula Scherrer, Michael Schumacher & Esther Venrroy. He is also a member of analog synthesizer collective, Analogos. (http://www.katohideki.com/)
Long Bio:
Kato Hideki (Kato:family name; Hideki: given) is a musician, composer & sound artist.
Kato was born on March 5, 1962 in Nagoya, Japan. He received a bachelor's degree in writing from Waseda University in 1984. As a seminal member of the Tokyo new music scene in the early1990’s, he worked with Otomo Yoshihide, Yoshida Tatsuya of Ruins, Yamatsuka Eye of Boredoms and Koichi Makigami. In 1991 he was co-recipient of a grant from the Australia Council for the project "Peril" with the Necks drummer Tony Buck, which toured and recorded in Japan and Australia. A year after participating in John Zorn's production of Koichi Makigami’s Toshiba/EMI CD in 1991, Kato permanently relocated to New York in 1992.
After he moved to NYC, his dynamic live performance has garnered considerable attention in the US, Canada and Europe. He appeared at the Steim 25th Anniversary in Holland, Taktlos Festival in Switzerland, Freiwild Festival in Germany, Victoriaville Festival in Canada and the Mimi Festival in France. With Death Ambient, he toured Europe, the UK and appeared on BBC Radio 3, recorded at the Royal Festival Hall in London. He performed with Michael Schumacher for Interpretation music series at Merkin Hall in NYC. He also performed John King's Open Strings for the New York City Ballet at Lincoln Center.
Besides working with the other artists, his own body of work has received a wide acclaim. He was selected as Artist-in-Residence at Harvestworks in 1993, and released the Bass Army CD Karada wa Oto o Dasu Mono in 1994. He co-founded the trio Death Ambient with Ikue Mori and Fred Frith. He has produced the trio and released three titles: Death Ambient (1995), Synaesthesia (1999) and Drunken Forest (2007) on Tzadik Records. His acoustic CD Hope and Despair, that features Zeena Parkins & John Zorn was released on Extreme in 1996. In recent years, Kato formed his new trio, Green Zone with Otomo Yoshihide and Uemura Masahiro and performed and recorded in Tokyo in 2004. The self-titled CD Green Zone was released on DoubtMusic in 2005. Green Zone toured Japan and recorded a 50-min piece Bayt in 2006. The CD was released on Disc Callithump in 2008. He also formed OMNI with Nakamura Toshimaru and Akiyama Tetuzi in 2006. Their self-titled CD OMNI has been released on Presquile Records in 2009. His music is also released on Virgin UK records’ compilation CDs.
As a composer, his work resides in the fields of music and sound art:
His music is often based on specific themes, most typically topical issues: He co-founded a trio Death Ambient with Fred Frith and Ikue Mori in 1996 and released three CDs on Tzadik Records. Their third CD Drunken Forest was based on clmate change and environment collapes. He was commissioned a piece for a 10-piece big band by the Kitchen. The piece, Mystic Ship of Life was premiered at Kitchen House Blend Series in 2001. In 2005, he started composing a suite, Tremolo of Joy for his quartet with Charles Burnham, Briggan Krauss, Ed Tomney and Calvin Weston, which was based on Native American's myths. In 2009, he was commissioned by the Swiss Institute to composer music for Raphael Perret’s Sirens of NYC. Most recent project is a band, Plastic Spoon with Karen Mantler, Douglas Wieselman & Shahzad Ismaily. For this project, he writes songs that are economy related issues, such as poverty, the decline of capitalism, global aging, the banking and food industries, prison-industrial complex, etc. Kato also wrote music for theatre, TV and short films, including the Irondale Ensemble's production of August Strindberg's Ghost Sonata in 1995 and a La Mama production, After the Rain, directed by Watoku Ueno in 2008; film scores for Japanese director Sasaki Hideaki's films, In Heaven and Exit B9 in 1991 and Rashid Mamun’s Platform in 2008
In the field of sound art, he has developed Prime Number Tuning system, resulting in the solo bass piece Turbulent Zone and released a CD on his own label, Music for Expanded Ears in 1998. The piece was performed at the Bang on a Can Marathon in 1999 and toured the UK and Europe.The piece was critically-acclaimed and was noted in a book Avant Rock: Experimental Music from Beatles to Bjork by Bill Martin. Most recently, he is interested in combining linear and non-linear elements for his music and sound art, as a way of mixing subjective and objective aspect of music and sound.
Besides his own projects, Kato has been active in collaborating with the other sound/visual artists. With Nicolas Collins, he was commissioned by the Sound in Motion Festival in Belgium for a multimedia project in 1999, and appeared at the Mixology Festival 2003 and New Sound New York in 2004. With James Fei, he released a CD Sieves in 2003 and toured Japan in 2004. He is also a frequent performer in Michael Schumacher’s Room Piece and appeared at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Merkin Hall, Sounds Like Now Festival 2004. In April 2007, he collaborated with Briggan Krauss for a sound and visual installation piece ZURE ("gap" in Japanese) at Diapason Gallery. He has been a member of the analog synthesizer group, Analogos with Kabir Carter, James Fei, David Galbraith, Michael J Schumacher and Ed Tomney since 2005. With the visual artist Ursula Scherrer, he created an installation/public art piece Elevator 55 at Dumbo Arts Festival 2008 and a performance piece Dream Within a Dream at Experimental Intermedia in NYC in 2009 and an installation piece Slash at Diapason Gallery in 2010. He has appeared at “Feeding Back, Listening In” festival at the Columbia University and performed with James Fei and Nakamura Toshimaru, along with Otomo Yoshihide and Alvin Lucier; also appeared at the Whitney Museum of American Art for Christian Marclay Festival; and active installation with Esther Venrooy at Diapason Gallery and performaning Yolande Harris' SWAPM at the Issue Project Room and Marina Rosenfeld's "roygbiv&b" at the Museum of Modern Art in 2011.
As a bassist/composer, he has worked with/for Marc Anthony (A.K.A. Chocolate Geneus), Derek Bailey, Cyro Baptista, Samm Bennett, Dougie Bowne, Tony Buck, Danny Blume, Charlie Burnham, Hiram Bullock, Sim Cain, Michael Callen, Marco Cappelli, Chris Cochrane, Anthony Coleman, Huge Davies, Richard Dworkin, Michael Evans, Yamatuska Eye, Mark Feldman, David First, Marco Franco, Erik Friedlander, Andy Gonzalez, Keiji Haino, HIKASHU, Shelley Hirsch, David Hofstra, Eyvind Kang, Umezu Kazutoki, Nels Cline, Briggan Krause, Yuka Honda, John King, David Linton, Gary Lucas, Raz Mesinai, Eric Mingus, Koichi Makigami, Karen Mantler, Christian Marclay, Billy Martin, Ikue Mori, Shoko Nagai, New York City Ballet, Arturo O’Farrill, DJ Olive, Otomo Yoshihide's Ground Zero, Andrea Parkins, Sara Parkins, Zeena Parkins, Mike Patton, Ben Perowsky, Robert Poss, Jim Pugliese, Nuno Rebelo, Marc Ribot, E.J. Rodriguez, Marina Rosenfeld, Ned Rothenberg, Jane Scarpantoni, Elliot Sharp, David Shea, Bruce Springsteen, No Safery, Jim Staley, Susun Stenger, Steve Swallow, Satoshi Takeishi, Michiaki Tanaka, Yumiko Tanaka, Tenko, Alex Waterman, Calvin Weston, Tatusya Yoshida, Ed Vallance, Nana Vasconcellos, Carlos Zingaro and John Zorn.
As an engineer, he builds Analog recording/mixing equipments and his own recorind/mixing system (mostly designed by J.C. Morrison), He records, mixes and masters recordings at his studio in Brooklyn. Besides his own recordings, he recorded/mixed/mastered for Charlie Burnham, Audrey Chen, Big Apple Circus, DJ Sniff, J.D. Daugherty, Michael Evans, Fred Frith, Grey Gersten, Andy Gonzalez, Andy Haas, John Heneghan, Michael Hurley, Briggan Krauss, Karen Mantler, Sean Meehan, Ikue Mori, J.C. Morrison, Jenni Muldaur, Anders Nilsson, Arturo O’Farrill, Katie O’Looney, Marina Rosenfeld, Zeena Parkins, Papo Pepin, Jim Pugliese, Michael Schumacher, Jim Seeley, Michiaki Tanaka, THEM (a production for dance, poetry and music by Ishmael Houston-Jones, Dennis Copper & Chris Cochrane), Bryan Vargas' YA ESTA, Tenko, Otomo Yoshihide, David Watson, Calvin Weston, Nate Wooley and a Bruce Springsteen documentary production (PostWorks/NFL).
Kato also taught workshops on the sound, at Experimenta Festival in Buenos Aires, IAMAS, Chukyo University, Nagoya Universiy of Art and Science, Polytechnic University, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago & NYU/POLY.
He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.
http://www.katohideki.com/
Kato Hideki (Kato:family name; Hideki: given) is a Japanese-born musician, composer & sound artist, who lives in Brooklyn, NYC. His work resides in the fields of music and the sound art. He is the co-founder of Death Ambient with Ikue Mori & Fred Frith. His other groups as a leader are: Green Zone with Otomo Yoshihide & Uemura Masahiro; OMNI wtih Nakamura Toshimaru & Akiyama Tetsuji. His compositions include: solo bass piece Turbulent Zone, Mystic Ship of Life, (commissioned by the Kitchen, NYC) and Tremolo of Joy for his quartet with Charles Burnham, Briggan Krauss & Calvin Weston. Most recent project is Plastic Spoon with Karen Mantler, Douglas Wieselman & Shahzad Ismaily. As a bassist, he has worked with Eyvind Kang, Karen Mantler, Zeena Parkins, Marc Ribot, Jim Pugliese, John Zorn among many others. Besides his own projects, Kato collaborates with Nicolas Collins, James Fei, Christian Marclay, Ursula Scherrer, Michael Schumacher & Esther Venrroy. He is also a member of analog synthesizer collective, Analogos. (http://www.katohideki.com/)
Long Bio:
Kato Hideki (Kato:family name; Hideki: given) is a musician, composer & sound artist.
Kato was born on March 5, 1962 in Nagoya, Japan. He received a bachelor's degree in writing from Waseda University in 1984. As a seminal member of the Tokyo new music scene in the early1990’s, he worked with Otomo Yoshihide, Yoshida Tatsuya of Ruins, Yamatsuka Eye of Boredoms and Koichi Makigami. In 1991 he was co-recipient of a grant from the Australia Council for the project "Peril" with the Necks drummer Tony Buck, which toured and recorded in Japan and Australia. A year after participating in John Zorn's production of Koichi Makigami’s Toshiba/EMI CD in 1991, Kato permanently relocated to New York in 1992.
After he moved to NYC, his dynamic live performance has garnered considerable attention in the US, Canada and Europe. He appeared at the Steim 25th Anniversary in Holland, Taktlos Festival in Switzerland, Freiwild Festival in Germany, Victoriaville Festival in Canada and the Mimi Festival in France. With Death Ambient, he toured Europe, the UK and appeared on BBC Radio 3, recorded at the Royal Festival Hall in London. He performed with Michael Schumacher for Interpretation music series at Merkin Hall in NYC. He also performed John King's Open Strings for the New York City Ballet at Lincoln Center.
Besides working with the other artists, his own body of work has received a wide acclaim. He was selected as Artist-in-Residence at Harvestworks in 1993, and released the Bass Army CD Karada wa Oto o Dasu Mono in 1994. He co-founded the trio Death Ambient with Ikue Mori and Fred Frith. He has produced the trio and released three titles: Death Ambient (1995), Synaesthesia (1999) and Drunken Forest (2007) on Tzadik Records. His acoustic CD Hope and Despair, that features Zeena Parkins & John Zorn was released on Extreme in 1996. In recent years, Kato formed his new trio, Green Zone with Otomo Yoshihide and Uemura Masahiro and performed and recorded in Tokyo in 2004. The self-titled CD Green Zone was released on DoubtMusic in 2005. Green Zone toured Japan and recorded a 50-min piece Bayt in 2006. The CD was released on Disc Callithump in 2008. He also formed OMNI with Nakamura Toshimaru and Akiyama Tetuzi in 2006. Their self-titled CD OMNI has been released on Presquile Records in 2009. His music is also released on Virgin UK records’ compilation CDs.
As a composer, his work resides in the fields of music and sound art:
His music is often based on specific themes, most typically topical issues: He co-founded a trio Death Ambient with Fred Frith and Ikue Mori in 1996 and released three CDs on Tzadik Records. Their third CD Drunken Forest was based on clmate change and environment collapes. He was commissioned a piece for a 10-piece big band by the Kitchen. The piece, Mystic Ship of Life was premiered at Kitchen House Blend Series in 2001. In 2005, he started composing a suite, Tremolo of Joy for his quartet with Charles Burnham, Briggan Krauss, Ed Tomney and Calvin Weston, which was based on Native American's myths. In 2009, he was commissioned by the Swiss Institute to composer music for Raphael Perret’s Sirens of NYC. Most recent project is a band, Plastic Spoon with Karen Mantler, Douglas Wieselman & Shahzad Ismaily. For this project, he writes songs that are economy related issues, such as poverty, the decline of capitalism, global aging, the banking and food industries, prison-industrial complex, etc. Kato also wrote music for theatre, TV and short films, including the Irondale Ensemble's production of August Strindberg's Ghost Sonata in 1995 and a La Mama production, After the Rain, directed by Watoku Ueno in 2008; film scores for Japanese director Sasaki Hideaki's films, In Heaven and Exit B9 in 1991 and Rashid Mamun’s Platform in 2008
In the field of sound art, he has developed Prime Number Tuning system, resulting in the solo bass piece Turbulent Zone and released a CD on his own label, Music for Expanded Ears in 1998. The piece was performed at the Bang on a Can Marathon in 1999 and toured the UK and Europe.The piece was critically-acclaimed and was noted in a book Avant Rock: Experimental Music from Beatles to Bjork by Bill Martin. Most recently, he is interested in combining linear and non-linear elements for his music and sound art, as a way of mixing subjective and objective aspect of music and sound.
Besides his own projects, Kato has been active in collaborating with the other sound/visual artists. With Nicolas Collins, he was commissioned by the Sound in Motion Festival in Belgium for a multimedia project in 1999, and appeared at the Mixology Festival 2003 and New Sound New York in 2004. With James Fei, he released a CD Sieves in 2003 and toured Japan in 2004. He is also a frequent performer in Michael Schumacher’s Room Piece and appeared at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Merkin Hall, Sounds Like Now Festival 2004. In April 2007, he collaborated with Briggan Krauss for a sound and visual installation piece ZURE ("gap" in Japanese) at Diapason Gallery. He has been a member of the analog synthesizer group, Analogos with Kabir Carter, James Fei, David Galbraith, Michael J Schumacher and Ed Tomney since 2005. With the visual artist Ursula Scherrer, he created an installation/public art piece Elevator 55 at Dumbo Arts Festival 2008 and a performance piece Dream Within a Dream at Experimental Intermedia in NYC in 2009 and an installation piece Slash at Diapason Gallery in 2010. He has appeared at “Feeding Back, Listening In” festival at the Columbia University and performed with James Fei and Nakamura Toshimaru, along with Otomo Yoshihide and Alvin Lucier; also appeared at the Whitney Museum of American Art for Christian Marclay Festival; and active installation with Esther Venrooy at Diapason Gallery and performaning Yolande Harris' SWAPM at the Issue Project Room and Marina Rosenfeld's "roygbiv&b" at the Museum of Modern Art in 2011.
As a bassist/composer, he has worked with/for Marc Anthony (A.K.A. Chocolate Geneus), Derek Bailey, Cyro Baptista, Samm Bennett, Dougie Bowne, Tony Buck, Danny Blume, Charlie Burnham, Hiram Bullock, Sim Cain, Michael Callen, Marco Cappelli, Chris Cochrane, Anthony Coleman, Huge Davies, Richard Dworkin, Michael Evans, Yamatuska Eye, Mark Feldman, David First, Marco Franco, Erik Friedlander, Andy Gonzalez, Keiji Haino, HIKASHU, Shelley Hirsch, David Hofstra, Eyvind Kang, Umezu Kazutoki, Nels Cline, Briggan Krause, Yuka Honda, John King, David Linton, Gary Lucas, Raz Mesinai, Eric Mingus, Koichi Makigami, Karen Mantler, Christian Marclay, Billy Martin, Ikue Mori, Shoko Nagai, New York City Ballet, Arturo O’Farrill, DJ Olive, Otomo Yoshihide's Ground Zero, Andrea Parkins, Sara Parkins, Zeena Parkins, Mike Patton, Ben Perowsky, Robert Poss, Jim Pugliese, Nuno Rebelo, Marc Ribot, E.J. Rodriguez, Marina Rosenfeld, Ned Rothenberg, Jane Scarpantoni, Elliot Sharp, David Shea, Bruce Springsteen, No Safery, Jim Staley, Susun Stenger, Steve Swallow, Satoshi Takeishi, Michiaki Tanaka, Yumiko Tanaka, Tenko, Alex Waterman, Calvin Weston, Tatusya Yoshida, Ed Vallance, Nana Vasconcellos, Carlos Zingaro and John Zorn.
As an engineer, he builds Analog recording/mixing equipments and his own recorind/mixing system (mostly designed by J.C. Morrison), He records, mixes and masters recordings at his studio in Brooklyn. Besides his own recordings, he recorded/mixed/mastered for Charlie Burnham, Audrey Chen, Big Apple Circus, DJ Sniff, J.D. Daugherty, Michael Evans, Fred Frith, Grey Gersten, Andy Gonzalez, Andy Haas, John Heneghan, Michael Hurley, Briggan Krauss, Karen Mantler, Sean Meehan, Ikue Mori, J.C. Morrison, Jenni Muldaur, Anders Nilsson, Arturo O’Farrill, Katie O’Looney, Marina Rosenfeld, Zeena Parkins, Papo Pepin, Jim Pugliese, Michael Schumacher, Jim Seeley, Michiaki Tanaka, THEM (a production for dance, poetry and music by Ishmael Houston-Jones, Dennis Copper & Chris Cochrane), Bryan Vargas' YA ESTA, Tenko, Otomo Yoshihide, David Watson, Calvin Weston, Nate Wooley and a Bruce Springsteen documentary production (PostWorks/NFL).
Kato also taught workshops on the sound, at Experimenta Festival in Buenos Aires, IAMAS, Chukyo University, Nagoya Universiy of Art and Science, Polytechnic University, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago & NYU/POLY.
He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.
http://www.katohideki.com/
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