I’m Humanity
I’m Humanity
© Etsuko Yakushimaru
Etsuko Yakushimaru
Etsuko Yakushimaru is a Japanese singer, producer, composer, lyricist, arranger and visual artist. She is broadly active both in the pop industry, as well as, in the experimental music field, as solo artist or with her band, Sōtaisei Riron.
Her approach is characterized by interdisciplinarity, she created projects that involves satellite, biological data and biotechnology, song-generating robot powered by artificial intelligence. She has worked on numerous collaborative projects with renowned artist such as Ryuichi Sakamoto, Jeff Mills, Matthew Herbert, my bloody valentine, Christian Fennesz, Thurston Moore, Cornelius, and Arto Lindsay.
Her work has been presented in prestigious art events worldwide. Among them, the Mori Art Museum, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, Ars Electronica Festival, Bozar Electronic Arts Festival, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo.