Ikue Mori
Ikue Mori
Ikue Mori, also known as Ikue Ile, is a drummer, composer, and graphic designer...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionMusician
CountryJapan
artists chamber grant next work
I just got a grant from the artists space, Roulette. It's for chamber music, electronics and percussion. That's going to be my work for next year.
art thinking sound-and-music
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.
influence late listened music rock
I started listened to music in the late '60s- it was all rock music. Jimi Hendrix, the Doors. They didn't really influence me, I just listened to it.
beat dna fast metal music rock songs
DNA wasn't as beat orientated as other bands. It's more like thrash metal music than rock music- it was very fast and the songs were very short.
drumming influence primitive
It's a very primitive way of drumming like the way you play with big sticks: this is called taiko. That was a big influence on me.
done film enjoy
I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
girl new-york sunset
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.
moving blood
Blood and death. That moves me.
tired different manipulation
I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.
japan musician left
I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
play rocks band
With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.
fun thinking play
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.
new-york interesting tokyo
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.
thinking play alive
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.