Live @ LOW END | KIKÙ HIBINO

724 South 12th Street,Omaha NE 68102

14 July, 2022

Description

FREE admission. The performance will also stream live at twitch.tv/bemiscenter and facebook.com/bemiscenter. Twitch account not required. Chicago-based and Japanese-born sound artist KIKÙ HIBINO produces cross-genre electronic music. From chamber music for media productions to digital micro sound for art installations, he has collaborated internationally with a wide variety of artists and scholars, including Yuge Zhou, Mitsu Salmon, Kawaguchi Takao (Dumb Type), Curtis Roads, Theaster Gates, Mike Weis (Zelienople), and Norma Field. His recent work attempts to deconstruct Chicago House Music through the noise music production approach. The project was funded by DCASE and presented at various locations in Chicago. HIBINO is a 2017 Individual Artist Grant recipient from Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. He’s an 2021 Outer Ear Artist in Residency at Experimental Sound Studio (ESS.org). HIBINO studied electronic music composition at Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus with Toru Iwatake, Atau Tanaka, and Christopher Penrose, and at University of California at Santa Barbara with Curtis Roads and Karen Tanaka, and holds M.A. in media art and technology. In 2021, HIBINO and his creative partner Gregory Bae launched S/N, an electronic music concert series that focuses on the work by Chicago’s underrepresented BIPOC, female, or gender minorities sound artists. Image: KIKÙ HIBINO; Courtesy of the University of Chicago. LOW END performances and Bemis Center's Sound Art + Experimental Music Program are made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. LOW END performances are also supported, in part, by Trudy and Larry Lundquist. Additional support provided by New Music USA’s New Music Organizational Development Fund.