Outer Ear Residency
Outer Ear Residency
The Outer Ear Residency (OER) is a flexible residency at Experimental Sound Studio (ESS) in which all of the Studio’s resources and platforms are made available to the artists. The goal of the residency is to facilitate experimentation and the creation of new work at any phase of the creative process. The residency is purposefully open and flexible, allowing artists to work with ESS staff on an approach that best serves their present artistic goals.
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OE Artists-in-Residence October 2021
kIKÙ HIBINO IN UTAH, HOSTED BY MILAD MOZARI & MITSU SALMON aND UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
This fall, ESS took a twist on the usual Outer Ear format which normally opens ESS’s Chicago studios to an artist for 2-4 weeks. For the month of October, ESS sent sound artist Kikù Hibino to Utah for a month-long residency. Hosted in Salt Lake City by former Chicago artists Milad Mozari and Mitsu Salmon, Hibino found inspiration, sounds and connection between the two cities for new work.
During his residency, Kikù Hibino participated in a series of lectures at the University of Utah both in the College of Architecture and Planning and the School of Music. In addition, he engaged with students through studio reviews and critiques and performed a show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Utah. These events coincided with the development of his own work in response to the landscape and terrain of Utah.
RESIDENCY REFLECTIONS
Outer Ear Residency Update from Utah, October 9, 2021
Outer Ear Residency Update from Utah, October 30, 2021
aBOUT kIKÙ HIBINO
Chicago-based and Japanese-born sound artist KIKÙ HIBINO produces cross-genre electronic music.
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), Curtis Roads, Theaster Gates , Mike Weis (Zelienople) and Norma Field.
The publication, The Wire once described his music as "trying to cram in as many memories as possible before it all disappears" and that the music "concerns itself with themes of capturing and preserving fleeting moments" (2007, issue 279).
His recent work attempts to deconstruct Chicago House Music through the noise music production approach. The project was funded by DCASE and presented at various locations in Chicago.
He studied electronic music composition at Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus with Toru Iwatake, Atau Tanaka, and Christopher Penrose, and at University of California at Santa Barbara with Curtis Roads and Karen Tanaka, and holds M.A. in media art and technology.
