Kikù Hibino is a Chicago-based sound artist and producer working across installations, multichannel environments, and noise-based electronic works. Through voice, text, and noise, his work creates tension between music and non-music while exploring non-linear temporality within time-based media. He also directs Signal Noise, an independent platform for avant-garde sound and video art. Recent releases include Fell to Fern (Superpang, 2022), created for the Lincoln Park Conservatory, and Sky Trajectories (Superpang, 2024).
His collaborative album with Merzbow, Rococo ∞ Echomatter (Superpang, 2026), develops an approach where dense noise fields collide with spoken voice and acoustic instruments. Rather than smoothing contrasts, the work treats noise as an ornamental structure—sound proliferating across the surface in endlessly mutating forms.
His work has been shown in the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Wrightwood 659, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago Cultural Center, Three Walls, Compound Yellow, Elastic Arts, Hairpin Arts Center, Hyde Park Art Center, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, among others. He is a 2017 Individual Artist Grant recipient from the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and a 2021 Outer Ear Artist in Residency at Experimental Sound Studio.
photo: Ivana Micic, Isak Han, Liina Raud
illustration: Kongkee