Ikue Mori
Ikue Mori
Ikue Mori, also known as Ikue Ile, is a drummer, composer, and graphic designer...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionMusician
CountryJapan
done film enjoy
I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing 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.
drum machines pull sound texture three trying
That was the most I could pull out from these three drum machines with sound and texture and orchestrations- that's what I'm trying to do.
asked drum gave liked program somebody using
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.
changing
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.
Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.