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As a vocalist, Ueno specializes in extended techniques (overtones, throat-singing, multiphonics, extreme registers, circular singing), and has collaborated in improvisations with Joey Baron, Joan Jeanrenaud, Pascal Contet, and many others. His ongoing performance projects include collaborations with Tim Feeney, Matt Ingalls, Du Yun, and Lou Bunk. In recent years, Ueno has collaborated with visual artists, architects, and video artists to create unique cross-disciplinary art works. With artist Angela Bulloch, he has created several audio installations (driven with custom software), which provide audio input that affect the way her mechanical drawing machine sculptures draw. Working with the landscape architect Jose Parral, Ueno has collaborated on videos, interactive video installations, and a multi-room intervention at the art space Rialto, in Rome, Italy. Ken is currently an Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Winner of the 2006-2007 Rome Prize and the 2010-2011 Berlin Prize, Ken Ueno is a composer, vocalist, improviser, and cross-disciplinary artist. His music coalesces diverse influences into a democratic sonic landscape. In addition to Heavy Metal sub-tone singing and Tuvan throat singing, he is also informed by European avant-garde instrumental techniques, American experimentalism, and sawari or beautiful noise, an aesthetic in traditional Japanese music. Ueno’s artistic mission is to champion sounds that have been overlooked or denied so that audiences reevaluate their musical potential. In an effort to feature inherent qualities of sound such as beatings, overtones, and artifacts of production noise, his music is often amplified. Ueno’s music has been performed at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MusikTriennale Köln Festival, the Muziekgebouw, the Hopkins Center, Spoleto USA, and Steim. Ensembles and performers who have played his music include Kim Kashkashian and Robyn Schulkowsky, Frances-Marie Uitti, Alarm Will Sound, and the Bang on a Can All-Stars.