Ikuo mori biography sample

Born in 1953 in Tokyo, Japan. Addresses: Office--Tzadik, 200 East 10th St., PMB 126, New York, NY 10003.

Electronic musician Ikue Mori started out as a drummer performing, most notably, with the seminal New York "no wave" outfit DNA in the late 1970s.

After DNA disbanded in the mid-1980s, Mori began experimenting with drum machines and samplers. Today, she works exclusively as an electronic musician, and has collaborated with a wide range of avant-garde musicians, including guitarists Fred Frith and Marc Ribot, harpist Zeena Parkins, percussionist Susie Ibarra, bassist Kato Hideki, vocalists Tenko and Catherine Janiaux, and reed player John Zorn, whose Tzadik and Avant record labels have released most of Mori's oeuvre. Outside the New York and Japanese avant-garde scenes, Mori has worked with Kim Gordon of indie rock band Sonic Youth, Jim O'Rourke of atmospheric rock band Tortoise, and turntablist DJ Olive, and composed and performed film scores, including several for f