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Using both acoustic and electronic/MIDI violin, Mari Kimura pushes the boundaries of the violin, playing both her own works and those that numerous composers, such as Toshi Ichiyanagi and Robert Rowe, have written especially for her. Her recent appearances include those at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the festival of Electro-Acoustic Music in Sweden, the Asian Contemporary Music Festival in Seoul, the International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISAE) in Helsinki, and at the International Bartok Festival in Hungary. An accomplished improviser, she has toured with such leading American improvisers as Henry Kaiser and Elliot Sharp. An album entitled "Acoustics," that includes her improvisations with Henry Kaiser, John Oswald and Jim O'Rourke, has just been released on the Victo label.