Ikue Mori
Ikue Mori
Ikue Mori, also known as Ikue Ile, is a drummer, composer, and graphic designer...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionMusician
CountryJapan
play rocks band
With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.
rocks long band
I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.