Yuko NEXUS6 is living in Hikone, between Osaka and Nagoya. Part time lecturer at a couple of Art and Science universities around Nagoya, she spends most of her time writing articles for the Internet and creating music for her unique style of performance.

15 years ago, almost by accident, a sudden change happened in her career when she started making “music”, using a Macintosh placed at her disposal at her job. She amused herself by installing a simple music software program in order to personalize her computer - until the day she got fired when her employer found out about her non-productive manipulations!

Yuko NEXUS6 is a “banpaku-kid”, a child of the Universal Exposition generation of Osaka 1970. This futurist display exhibited in Osaka remains inscribed in her memory as a witness to a future both technological and happy. Psychedelic fashion, exuberant architecture and electronic music offered a vision of the future that was both optimistic and comfortable. Today, these young people, now adults, question this technology that has penetrated the most intimate aspects of their life: where is the happiness, or the radiant joy emanating from the technological promise made 30 years ago?

Fortunate disjunctures always permit her to lightly approach such a-priori dense musical concepts as time-based composition and interactive music. During her concerts, she always keeps in mind the idea of the performance. Conscious of the unspectacular dryness of an artist in front of her computer, she is constantly inventing and adding little elements like grains of sand that derail her music towards something alive and astute.

Nowadays, she is a prolific and internationally recognized sound artist. Yuko NEXUS6 has been the subject of numerous interviews and citations, most recently in David Toop’s historical survey of electronic music, “Haunted Weather”. In 2003 she received the Digital Music Honorary Mention in Europe’s prestigious PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA competition with “Journal de Tokyo” her third solo album on Sonore.

In August 2005, Sonore releases her fifth solo and new album “Nexus6 Song Book”. Singing jazz, folk and traditional standards in Japanese, English and German, Yuko NEXUS6 processes her voice using the most high-tech devices as well as the cheapest recording gadgets. Sound-art oriented, Yuko NEXUS6's work is minimalist but full of wit. Special mention goes to the great booklet containing original lyrics and notes by Christopher STEPHENS, and superb photo artwork by IKEDA Akiko (+ guest musician: CHINO Shuichi).

Yuko NEXUS6 is also an activist, participating in the Women's Performance Art Osaka Festival (http://www.womens-performance-art-osaka.jp).

> YUKO NEXUS6: Press Reviews (2003-2005)

> OFFICIAL WEB SITE: http://www02.so-net.ne.jp/~nexus6/