Music
Yuko Nexus6 likes risk and is not fazed by tackling a priori abstruse musical concepts, such as real time composition or interactive music. The computer is her main medium, although she rejects the idea of performing alone on stage with her machine, preferring to enjoy herself and integrate a host of other elements, such as plastic cassette recorders or microphones, and small grains of sand that she knows are capable of upsetting the electronics and adding suspense, action and love.
Yuko Nexus6 lives in Hikone, near Osaka and teaches at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the University of Nagoya. She started creating her “music” almost by accident around fifteen years ago, when she installed a few bits of free software onto her office PC. Nowadays, Nexus6 is an international artiste and, in 2003, her third album, Journal from Tokyo received an Honorable Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica. In 2007, she was awarded an honor by the Foundation for Contemporary Art of New York. |
