Ikue Mori Quotes

• With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.

  Ikue Mori

• The most important thing is that it’s much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That’s the main thing I think, that you can do it.

  Ikue Mori

• The most important thing is that it’s much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That’s the main thing I think, that you can do it.

  Ikue Mori

• Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.

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• So now I don’t have time to practice drums. It’s been five years since I’ve touched the drums.

  Ikue Mori

• Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they’re all great.

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• Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum.

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• I’ve done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.

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• I’m interested in stories and the dark side of peoples’ minds.

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• I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn’t last long.

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• I still think that I’m playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It’s interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.

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• I really didn’t intend to be a musician when I left Japan.

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• I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.

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• I always wanted to get out of Tokyo and in 1977, New York seemed like the most interesting place to visit. I didn’t intend to live here- I just wanted to get out and see what was happening. I just happened to stay here then.

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• Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical.

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• Blood and death. That moves me.

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• Because it’s dance music, you can’t really have a lot of changing in there. It’s really not for me because there’s too much repetition. I like more diversity.

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• Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around ’84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and drums and guitar- we didn’t make any records but we played a lot of different clubs in New York.

  Ikue Mori

Ikue Mori (18)

Birth:	17th December, 1953
Nationality:	Japanese
Profession:	Composer, Drummer, Graphic Designer

About

Ikue Mori, also known as Ikue Ile was born in Tokyo, Japan. She is a Japanese drummer, composer, and graphic designer. In 1977, she went to New York City, initially for a visit, but she fell into the music scene, and has remained in New York since. Her first musical experience was as the drummer for seminal no wave band DNA, which also featured East Village hero Arto Lindsay. After DNA disbanded, she became active in the New York experimental music scene. In 1995, she began collaborating with Japanese bass guitarist Kato Hideki, and together with experimental guitarist Fred Frith, they formed Death Ambient. The trio released three albums, Death Ambient, Synaesthesia and Drunken Forest. Her albums list shown below: Hex Kitchen, One Hundred Aspects of the Moon, Phantom Orchard(with Zeena Parkins), and Alien Huddle(with Sylvie Courvoisier, Lotte Anker). She often records on Tzadik, as well as designing the covers for many of their albums. She has drawn inspiration from visual arts. She received a 2005-2006 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award.

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