Miki Yui joins us during her UK tour to promote 'Mills' her 6th studio record. Boundless solar oscillations in exquisite cycle; Miki Yui's sound is as playful as it is mesmerizing.
Cuspeditions warmly welcomes Japanese artist Miki Yui to the label with a work delicately crafted from field recordings, synthesizer, solar oscillator and sampler. Yui is known for the unique nature of her music (apparent also in past collaborations with Rolf Julius, Rie Nakajima and Klaus Dinger), and whilst Mills retains the subtlety and sensuousness of her earlier works, these new coherent and lucid compositions are charged with a narrative tension we’ve not heard before.
Born 1971 in Tokyo. Artist, composer, musician based in Düsseldorf since 1994. Multi-disciplinary artist, crossing the boundary of music, performance, drawing, and installation.
She investigates the grey zone of our perception, between the reality – imaginary.
Recently, the field of her work deals with environmental issues. Since 2019 though Flux Project, in collaboration with Nathalia Favaro, they create occasionally a space to reconnect with the environment as well as with ourselves.
Parallel to her own work, she worked with Klaus Dinger (NEU! La Düsseldorf) from 2000. Since 2008, she takes care of Klaus Dinger Archive. Collaboration with Rolf Julius since 2004, with Carl Stone as Realistic Monk since 2015 and with Asmus Tietchens in 2021.
Lee Patterson uses sound making and recording to devise performances with a selection of amplified objects, devices and processes, from rock chalk to springs, from burning nuts to vibrating metal.
Based in Prestwich, Manchester, UK., he works internationally and has featured on UK TV, BBC Radios 3, 4 and 6, Resonance FM and on radio stations worldwide.