Sep
14
8:30 PM20:30
Aug
4
5:00 PM17:00
Merzbow, Kikù Hibino /// SN label showcase
Signal Noise Label Showcase: Merzbow, Kiku Hibino in Tokyo on August 4, 2024
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Chicago, July 20, 2024 —To celebrate Merzbow's joining of Signal Noise, we will hold a label showcase event on August 4, 2024 (Sunday) at Koiwa BUSHBASH in Tokyo. This event is co-hosted with the Tokyo-based creative firm SETENV.
Signal Noise (SN), an independent platform from Chicago, is dedicated to avant-garde electronic music, noise, and video art. Founded in 2021 by Gregory Bae and Kikù Hibino, SN has released live works by artists such as Ana Paula Santana, Kikù Hibino, Marcus Fischer, Peter Speer, and Sam Prekop, pushing the boundaries of sound and art. After Gregory Bae's passing, Joe Gilmore took over visual direction, whose designs symbolize SN's unique identity.
Event Details:
- Date: August 4, 2024 (Sunday) at 5 PM
-Venue: Koiwa BUSHBASH (7-28-11-101 Minamikoiwa, Edogawa-ku, Tokyo )
Lineup:
- Merzbow
- Kikù Hibino
- Akio Jeimus (Support)
Jun
15
to Jun 16
HYPERACUSTICA x SUPERPANG
HYPERACUSTICA x SUPERPANG
Franz Rosati
Francesco Corvi & Hugo Lioret
Kikù Hibino
Evol
Telesm
May
22
7:30 PM19:30
Making Multichannel Music / Workshop
Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago, May 21, 2024.
We are delighted to present sound artist Kikù Hibino exploring his approaches of multi-channel works through the world of his album Sky Trajectories (2024, from Superpang). The piece is an experimental sonic work that uses Anne Carson’s text as its theme, exploring how minimal musical units, characterized by off-grid rhythm patterns and voice (by Whitney Johnson), approach human perception. In this workshop, Hibino will explain how he approaches multi-channel works, using several pieces from this album as examples. Additionally, he will discuss the 4-channel sound installation, Fell to Fern, which was exhibited at the Lincoln Park Conservatory from June to October 2022.
The workshops are FREE and space is plentiful. Following this round of four workshops we will start planning future CLEAT workshop series in Fall 2024, Spring 2025, and Fall 2025. We also invite all participants to come out next week 5/29 for a special CLEAT / tea ceremony experience with Haotian Wang!
This program is supported by the Richard H. Dreihaus Foundation
May
2
6:30 PM18:30
Live at Smart Museum of Art
Experience a sonic journey through Meiji Modern during a live, in-gallery performance by Chicago-based experimental artist and composer Kikù Hibino.
Utilizing analog modular synthesizers and modern digital audio technology, Kikù will bring to sonic life a diverse range of influences in the exhibition, from the precise craftsmanship of Meiji cloisonné, to the colorful layering of woodblock prints, to the repeating patterns and tesselating shapes found within ceramic vases in the exhibition.
FREE, open to all. Space may be limited, please register in advance.
Apr
24
8:00 PM20:00
ELASTRO SERIES: LAURA ORTMAN, KIM NUCCI / RUBY QUE, KIKÚ HIBINO
https://elasticarts.org/events/elastro-series-laura-ortman-kim-nucci-ruby-que-kik-hibino
At April’s Elastro Series we’re pleased to welcome NYC-based artist Laura Ortman, a duo from Chicago residents Kim Nucci and Ruby Que, and solo set from the inimitable Kikú Hibino.
Ortman is in town for a couple site specific performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art, so we’re so pleased they’re able to present work with us here at Elastic Arts.
Her practice has a strong connection to visual art. Prior to moving to New York, Ortman states: “I used to try to create painting and installation work about being isolated, of being singular," she says. "Then I started making my own music for the installations, to fill them up. Then, at last, I decided that the sound was what was really moving me." She describes her music as "sculpting sound." Tonight she will perform work utilizing amplified violin, windchimes, bells, whistle, guitar picks, tree branches.
Ruby Que and Kim Nucci will be conjuring portals to another plane, channeled through the lights and sounds of a variety of medias and instruments. Nucci is an Oakland/Chicago-based multimedia artist, composer / improviser, and technologist. They perform on saxophones, electronics, voice, and live projection. Ruby Que is a queer, itinerant, multidisciplinary artist. In their work they open portals and create hauntings. Many projects grapple with absence: the missing person, the deserted homeland, the obsolete medium, the traumatic memory.
Kikú will present Sky Trajectories (2024, from Superpang), an experimental work that uses Anne Carson's text as its theme, exploring how minimal musical units, characterized by off-grid rhythm patterns and voice (by Whitney Johnson), approach human perception. In this live performance, the artist will showcase tracks from this album along with some new works.
$15 / $10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available at the Door
Apr
6
10:00 AM10:00
FREEDOM FROM & FREEDOM TO
FFFT returns for its first iteration of sound and movement collaborations for 2024! Freedom From and Freedom To is an exploration and celebration of artistic circumstance. Movement and sound improvisors from all around Chicago gather in front of a live audience, where they are grouped by chance. Each group performs an improvised set. We fuse diverse artistic backgrounds and practices to create unique and fleeting worlds. There will be a headlining set from Kiku Hibino + Keisha Janae.
Artists for April 6, 2024
Headliner:
Musician Kiku Hibino & Dancer Keisha Janae
Dancers:
Musicians:
$15 / $10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available below or at the Door
Mar
20
7:00 PM19:00
Tennger (with Kikù Hibino)
Co-Prosperity in collaboration with 062 is thrilled to present TENGGER. TENGGER is a traveling musical family, made up of Pan-Asian couple ITTA (from South Korea) and MARQIDO (from Japan), who create their brand of psychedelic New-Age drone magic through the use of voice, Indian harmonium, and toy instruments (played by ITTA), and synths and electronics (played by MARQIDO). The duo originally started out with the moniker “10,” but since the birth of their son RAAI (who joins them on tour and playing voice, synth, toy instruments, and dance performance on stage) in 2012, have called themselves TENGGER (meaning ‘unlimited expanse of sky’ in Mongolian) to mark the expansion of the family. It also means ‘huge sea’ in Hungarian. Travel, as a spiritual experience in real environments, and the sound between the space and the audience have been central themes of their works. The family’s yearly pilgrimages inform every aspect of their art.
Kikù Hibino will be opening the night and this concert is FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Please join us on March 20, 2024. Doors open at 7:00 PM.
Oct
12
8:00 PM20:00
Ana Paula Santana + Kikù Hibino with Kim Alpert
In celebrating the release of the collaborative work "Aquas de León Azul" on the SN label
alongside Kiku Hibino, we are excited to welcome Mexican sound artist Ana Paula Santana to Constellation. The event will feature solo performances by both artists, culminating in a harmonious duo performance. Kim Alpert will be contributing her visual artistry to the sets.
Sep
23
7:00 PM19:00
Aug
15
1:00 PM13:00
KIKÙ HIBINO + PEDRO LOPES: SOLOS + DUOS
We’re pleased to welcome back Kikù Hibino to Elastic Arts alongside Portuguese musician Pedro Lopes. Hibino will be utilizing Eurorack and Buchla synthesizers to create thick electronic environments, often leaning into rhythmic ambient territory. Lopes uses turntables as their main innstrument, creating their own needles and records via acryclic lathe cutting. He scrapes, bows, plucks, scratches, and manipulates the sounds with electronics to compose. Each artist will be presenting a solo set followed by a duo to close the night. Join us for this special Sunday evening of electronics!
Jul
6
1:00 PM13:00
A guest DJ mix for Karen Vogt's radio how
Kikù’s DJ mix for Karen Vogt’s radio show called “Lost, Found, and Lost Again”. will be on air tomorrow (Thursday) at 1pm UK/2pm CEST France on @camp_fr in the 2nd hour & a sneak listen of a future release.
I made an hour-long djmix for Karen Vogt's radio show "lost, found, and lost again". It will be on-air tomorrow at 2 pm in Paris.
The mix is very personal. It features works by musicians I admire and artists I am currently working with.
Mixing the beautiful ambient of Ana Paula and Clara de Asis with the minimal electronic sounds of Joe Gilmore was a fun experience. It was like we were all in a Parisian radio studio having a fantastic time. This mix is a map of the constellations for me, as they all exist in different parts of the world and shine in their way.
Karen Vogtのラジオ番組、"lost, found, and lost again" のために１時間ほどのDJmixをつくりました。明日の午後２時にオンエア予定です。
ミックスは、ぼくの敬愛する音楽家や今一緒に仕事をしているアーティストたちの作品で構成されています。
Ana Paula や Clara de Asisの美しいアンビエントにJoe Gilmoreのミニマルな電子音を混ぜることは楽しい経験でした。そうすることでまるで皆でパリのラジオスタジオでクールなひとときをすごすような気になります。みんな世界中にバラバラに存在しながらそれぞれが輝いているわけだけど、そういう意味ではこのミックスは僕にとっての星座の地図かな。
Jun
23
4:00 PM16:00
Wrightwood 659
On June 23rd, Wrightwood 659 and the Chinese American Museum of Chicago join Dragon Boat Festival celebrations worldwide in memory of the ancient Chinese poet, politician, and musician Qu Yuan. In Warring States Cyberpunk, Kongkee reimagines the story of Qu Yuan, transplanting his ancient and poetic soul into an android, merging the past with a rapidly approaching future. Honoring Kongkee’s retelling, Wrightwood 659 will present two live performances moving from the augmented, imagined future to practices rooted in millennia-old tradition.
The program will commence at 4 PM with the electronic compositions of acclaimed Japanese-born sound artist Kikù Hibino. The music will accompany the silhouettes of Kongkee’s vinyl window installation, as the sun projects them across the floors and walls of the Tadao Ando-designed fourth-floor corridor in a convergence of sound, light, and space. Hibino’s layered orchestration, inspired by nature’s rhythms and optical illusions, resonates with the dancing shadows of Kongkee’s bionic figures.
At 6 PM, the program will conclude with a ceremonial lion dance, a form that can be traced back to the end of the Warring States Period roughly 2,200 years ago. Performed by the Chicago Chinese Cultural Center’s dance troupe, the lion dancers weave their way through the exhibition to the beat of drums and cymbals, embodying a living link between timelessness and temporal.
May
9
2:30 PM14:30
Apr
1
2:30 PM14:30
Freedom from and Freedom to
FFFT returns for its first iteration of sound and movement collaborations for 2023!
Performer names for FFFT for April 1st, 2023
Opening act Slowdanger
Dancers:
Musicians
From and Freedom To is an exploration and celebration of artistic circumstance. Movement and sound improvisors from all around Chicago gather in front of a live audience, where they are grouped by chance. Each group performs an improvised set. We fuse diverse artistic backgrounds and practices to create unique and fleeting worlds.
Our events are improvisational performance environments which interrogate movement and sound. We use an ensemble of movers and sound-makers that are remarkably diverse in their crafts and backgrounds. Freedom From and Freedom To integrates relationality by engaging audience participation. The audience is invited to randomly draw a combination of artists who will perform together. Some of the participants have never engaged with each other before, which creates a challenging and often rewarding opportunity for world-making.
$15 - Tickets Available at the Door
Dec
15
12:00 PM12:00
AGU conference Fall 2022 / ART+SCIENCE PLENARY PANEL with Dr. Mika Toska
For this trans-disciplinary panel, we highlight five Midwest-based artists who create work in ecological and environmental spaces. Our panelists represent a broad range of artistic mediums and practices and will speak to how their art (and art in general) can inspire action on large questions such as climate change and science communication.
This panel and related art and science exhibitions (both virtual and in-person) are efforts organized by the Art and Science track in AGU’s Science and Society section to increase awareness of the value of art and science intersections to scientific discovery, communication, and to leading the future.
Panelists
Sara Black (sculpture)
Kiku Hibino (sound) + Dr. Baudouin Saint-Yves (light)
Dr. Kim Blaser (poetry)
Terry Evans (photography)
Dec
13
7:30 PM19:30
Kikù Hibino with Steven Hess and Haruhi at Empty Bottle
Live at Empty Bottle
Kikù Hibino + Steven Hess + Haruhi
Norman W. Long + John Daniel
Veronica Anne Salinas
Regina Martinez
Dec
1
8:30 PM20:30
Superpang x Kikù Hibino album release event at Constellation with Bill MacKay, Lia Kohl and Alex Inglizian
Superpang x Kikù Hibino
Fell to Fern release event
https://constellation-chicago.com/
Fell to Fern, a sound art piece by Kikù Hibino that was exhibited at the Lincoln Park Conservatory in Chicago was released November 4 on the Italian record label Superpang. The album includes two tracks–the soundtrack used in the installation, and a live performance collaboration with Alex Inglizian recorded at the closing reception in October. To celebrate the release of this album, the artist will be performing live at Chicago's Constellation on December 1 at 8:30 pm. The first 100 people to purchase tickets will receive a free download card. Please join us.
Featuring:
Bill MacKay
Lia Kohl
Alex Inglizian
Visual by Galina Shevchenko + Liina Raud
Nov
22
8:00 PM20:00
Nov
11
7:00 PM19:00
"The New Earth" Closing Reception live performance with Allen Moore and Kikù Hibino
Announcing the closing reception for "The New Earth". We're sad to see this show go. Do not miss this pivotal exhibition.
Earth-toned live sets by the wonderful Allen Moore (@allen_moore_127) & Kikù Hibino (@kiku.hibino)
🌎 The New Earth 🌎
Closing Reception
Friday, November 11, 7-11 pm
🎨 Artists 🎨
Jeremy Bolen
Michael Cuadrado
John Gelardi
Susan Goethel Campbell
Kat Jarvinen
Mich Miller
Allen Moore
Parsons & Charlesworth
Sam Rolfes
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@kiku.hibino @jb0len @pichael_ @coneycoffee @michmillerprint @allen_moore_127 @parsonscharlesworth @sam.rolfes @suegoethel
Oct
16
1:00 PM13:00
"Fell to Fern" closing live
It has been four months since the opening of “Fell to Fern” sound installation at the Lincoln Park Conservatory, and I am delighted that so many people have experienced it. Fell to Fern will close on October 16th, and I will be doing a closing live performance with Alex Inglizian of ESS on that day. Please join us.
Event Link: https://ess.org/esscalendar/10-16-kiku-alex
リンカーンパーク植物園でのサウンドインスタレーションですが、６月のオープニングから早いものでもう４か月立とうとしています。たくさんの方に経験していただい僕としては本当にうれしい限りです。Fell to Fern は１０月１６日でクローズしますが、その日はESSのアレックスとクロージングのライブパフォーマンスをする予定です。是非ご参加ください。
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Oct
15
1:00 PM13:00
Oct 15: Sound Performance by Kikù Hibino and Chien-An Yuan
According to @hyperallergic , our tomorrow’s show at Chinese American Museum of Chicago with @yugezhou and @chienanyuan is one of the must-see “very Chicago art events this season.”
October 15th: 1PM
Chinese American Museum of Chicago
https://ccamuseum.org/oct-15-sound-performance-by-kiku-hibino-and-chien-an-yuan/
I and @chienanyuan will perform electronic music that responds to her video art “Moon Drawings”.
Thanks to @lardamang and @ccamuseum for making this happen.
Please join us.
Sep
22
7:00 PM19:00
SN SERIES PRESENTS ZANDER RAYMOND, AL KOLOT, ANA PAULA SANTANA + KIKÙ HIBINO, MARCUS FISCHER
In collaboration with ESS, we will be hosting a two-day TQC online concert. Tickets are free, and we invite you to join us via ESS Youtube channel. For more information, please visit Experimental Sound Studio website at ESS.org.
9/15
Sam Prekop
Peter Speer
Mehve (Haruhi + Kikù Hibino)
Milad Mozari
9/22
Marcus Fischer
Ana Paula Santana + Kikù Hibino
Zander Raymond
Al Kolot
https://www.youtube.com/c/ExperimentalSoundStudioChicago/featured
一年ぶりにSN series が帰ってきます。
今回はESSとの共同企画で、二日に渡るTQCオンラインコンサートを開催します。The Sea and Cake のサム・プレコップ、マーカス・フィッシャー、ハルヒなど豪華ラインアップでお届けするオンラインコンサート、是非ご参加ください。詳しくはESSのウェブサイトまで。ESS.org
#SN #SNseries #ESS #TQC #TheQurantineConcert
#SamPrekop #haruhi #kikuhibino #mehve #MiladMozari #PeterSpeer
#MarcusFischer #AnaPaulaSantana #ZanderRaymond #AlKolot
@anafauna @haruhi_ @1sampre @prekopcomma @kiku.hibino @peter.speer @zanderraymond @5th.sound @mozari @esschicago
Sep
15
7:00 PM19:00
The Quarantine Concert / SN series
In collaboration with ESS, we will be hosting a two-day TQC online concert. Tickets are free, and we invite you to join us via ESS Youtube channel. For more information, please visit Experimental Sound Studio website at ESS.org.
9/15
Sam Prekop
Peter Speer
Mehve (Haruhi + Kikù Hibino)
Milad Mozari
9/22
Marcus Fischer
Ana Paula Santana + Kikù Hibino
Zander Raymond
Al Kolot
https://www.youtube.com/c/ExperimentalSoundStudioChicago/featured
一年ぶりにSN series が帰ってきます。
今回はESSとの共同企画で、二日に渡るTQCオンラインコンサートを開催します。The Sea and Cake のサム・プレコップ、マーカス・フィッシャー、ハルヒなど豪華ラインアップでお届けするオンラインコンサート、是非ご参加ください。詳しくはESSのウェブサイトまで。ESS.org
#SN #SNseries #ESS #TQC #TheQurantineConcert
#SamPrekop #haruhi #kikuhibino #mehve #MiladMozari #PeterSpeer
#MarcusFischer #AnaPaulaSantana #ZanderRaymond #AlKolot
@anafauna @haruhi_ @1sampre @prekopcomma @kiku.hibino @peter.speer @zanderraymond @5th.sound @mozari @esschicago
Sep
2
7:00 PM19:00
Public Works Gallery / Opening Reception / The New Earth
SN artist Regina Martinez and Kikù Hibino @kiku.hibino will provide a sound scape for the opening of The New Earth at Public Works @publicworksgallery this Friday.
RSVP:
https://publicworksgallery.com/blogs/exhibitions/the-new-earth
#reginamartinez
#selectivelistening
#kikuhibino
Jul
14
7:00 PM19:00
Bemis art center / Low End series
Kiku Hibino at Low End series
https://www.bemiscenter.org/
Jul
9
12:00 PM12:00
MCA Chicago
Sound art live performance based on Gregory Bae’s Ex Radio.
Steven Hess (Drum and Electronics)
Haruhi (Bass, Voice and Electronics)
Kiku Hibino (Electronics)
and we have Mitsu Salmon as guest !
Jun
19
12:00 PM12:00
Florasonic presents: Kikù Hibino "fell to fern"
Florasonic presents
Kikù Hibino:
fell to fern
Florasonic returns! Since 2001 ESS has commissioned artists every year to create new multichannel sound installations for the Lincoln Park Conservatory Fern Room. After a brief interruption during the pandemic, Florasonic is back with new work by Chicago artist and musician Kikù Hibino.
Opening: Sunday, June 19 from 12-3pm
Lincoln Park Conservatory
2391 N Stockton Dr, Chicago
The installation will be open to the public during Lincoln Park Conservatory open hours through September 25, 2022. The installation plays at the top of every hour.
Jun
17
4:30 PM16:30
COCOJOEY & KIKÙ HIBINO AT SIDE YARD SOUNDS
Saturday June 18th at 7pm at #244 Lake Street, Oak Park, IL. This performance will be held outside, space is limited so please come early to reserve your seat! $15 at the door, cash, Venmo and PayPal accepted, proceeds go to the artists!
Cocojoey is a composer, performer, producer, sound designer, and educator whose genre-evading music has been described as "often elegiac, waiting until its passengers are lulled, then swerving into oncoming traffic ... an antidote to placidity" (A Closer Listen), and "hard to compare to anything else out there at the moment" (Third Coast Review). Recent premieres include “FAUVE, for chamber orchestra and rock band”, for which he won a BMI Student Composer Award, and "COMPRESS ME", an electroacoustic composition written for an ambisonic sound dome.
Kikù Hibino is a Japanese-born sound artist, who produces electronic music that focuses on unusual rhythmic structure and melodies that are inspired by optical illusion and moiré patterns. 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), Theaster Gates, Mike Weis (Zelienople) and Norma Field.
Posted in Side Yard Sounds
May
13
6:00 PM18:00
Mitsu Salmon’s Somatic Tracing
Join us as we celebrate the opening reception for three new exhibitions—GLAM 2022 Gala Art Auction Exhibition in the Street Gallery; Mitsu Salmon’s Somatic Tracing in the AIR Space; and Video Works by Christy Chan in the Codec Gallery—Friday, May 13, 2022, from 6–9pm. There will be a special performance featuring performers Mitsu Salmon, Hannah Huang, Jonathan Kim, Joshua Mora, and Kellie St. Pierre, with sound by Kikù Hibino and Mitsu Salmon.