kiku hibino

kikù hibino is a sound artist. living and working in chicago.
he produces electronic music under pseudonym oto,
and also plays and releases uke music under the stage name Miri Maru.
he is a member of Volvox Théatron, art performance collective.

born and raised in japan,
he studied electronic music composition and media art with
toru iwatake, masaki fujihata, atau tanaka and christopher penrose at
keio university at shonan fujisawa from 1997-2001.

he received master's degree in media arts and technology at
university of california at santa barbara in 2003,
where he studied microsound electronic music composition with
curtis roads and karen tanaka.

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The Wire (U.K.) May 2007
Time Capsule Sunday by Oto
Having produced music for Sony, Mercedes-Benz and Heinz, Chicago based sound designer
Kiku Hibino has recently worked on the Stop-Rokkasho campaign, curated by Ryuichi Sakamoto,
to raise public awareness of nuclear reprocessing plants. This, his first collection, concerns itself with
themes of capturing and preserving fleeting moments: opener "Daidai" shakes and trembles like
a half-remembered Japanese folk tune. Elsewhere the composer uses the noises made by skipping CDs
as his source material, building them up into randomly shimmering tunes that rapidly come and go,
often disappearing beneath processed recordings of busy streets and crowded playgrounds,
as if he were trying to cram in as many memories as possible before it all disappears.
reviewed by Ken Hollings

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