kiku hibino

kiku hibino is a sound artist. living and working in chicago hydepark.

he is a bibliographic assistant at the university of chicago library.

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

to pursue further study in electronic music composition, he came to u.s. in 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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here is the review of his first cd (non-guitar work), time capsule sunday

The Wire (U.K.) May 2007
time capsule sunday
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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