Kato Hideki
(Kato:family
name; Hideki: given) is a Japanese-born musician, composer & sound
artist,
who lives in Brooklyn, NYC. His work resides in the fields of music
and the sound art. He is the co-founder of Death Ambient with Ikue Mori
&
Fred Frith. His other groups as a leader are: Green Zone with Otomo
Yoshihide
& Uemura Masahiro; OMNI wtih Nakamura Toshimaru & Akiyama
Tetsuji. His
compositions include: solo bass piece Turbulent Zone, Mystic Ship
of Life, (commissioned by the Kitchen, NYC) and Tremolo of Joy
for
his quartet with Charles Burnham, Briggan Krauss & Calvin Weston.
Most recent project is Plastic Spoon with Karen Mantler, Douglas
Wieselman & Shahzad Ismaily. As a bassist, he has worked with Eyvind
Kang, Karen Mantler, Zeena Parkins, Marc Ribot, Jim Pugliese, John Zorn
among many others. Besides
his own projects, Kato collaborates with Nicolas Collins, James Fei,
Christian Marclay, Ursula Scherrer, Michael Schumacher & Esther
Venrroy. He is
also a member of analog synthesizer collective, Analogos.
(http://www.katohideki.com/)