:: HACO :: bio

Major sound design for contemporary dance:
2005 composition and sound performance of “Opera’s Shadows” (Claudia Triozzi: choreography and voice): Festival Montpellier Danse, Montpellier, France
2006 composition and sound performance of “Setting” (Lucy Guerin: choreography) (for Australia-Japan Dance Exchange project): Melbourne International Arts Festival, Melbourne, Australia
2007 composition and sound performance of "Up To Date" (Claudia Triozzi: choreography and voice): Rencontres Choregraphiques International de Seine-Saint-Denis, Theatre de la Commune, Paris, France
2008 composition and performance of “Fais une halte chez Antonella” (Claudia Triozzi: choreography and voice): “Nomadic Nights - programmation Patti Smith,” Fondation Cartier, Paris, France; Nam June Paik Art Festival, Nam June Paik Art Centor, Seoul, Korea
2008 composition and sound design of “Corridor” (Lucy Guerin: choreography): Melbourne International Arts Festival, Melbourne, Australia
2009 composition and performance of “Mushingai” (Hoshi Mittsu - Hironori Miura & Masanori: choreography and dance): Beppu Contemporary Art Festival
“Mixed Bathing World”; Maizuru Red Brick Warehouses; Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, Japan; Patravadi Theatre, Bangkok, Thailand
2017 workshop & performance “Eurythmy” (Latifa Medjdoub+Haco): Museum of Performance and Design, San Francisco; Studio Grand, Oakland, US
2019 composition and performance of “Un CCN en terre et en paille” (Claudia Triozzi: choreography and voice): Festival d'Automne, Paris, France
2023 composition and performance of “MEGURU - Shirushika” (Akamarukyujyosyo - Michiyo Akamatsu & Yoko Maruyama: choreography and dance): ”Choreographers 2023”, Matsuyama (Ehime), Japan

Others:
Performances of “John Cage 100th Anniversary Countdown Event 2007-2012”
2007 The National Museum of Art, Osaka; 2008 Kyoto Art Theater (Shunjuza), Kyoto; 2011 The Museum of Modern Art,Toyama; 2009 & 2012 Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto (Japan)
Performances of “John Cage / David Tudor”
2022 Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto (Japan)

Awards:
1983 "An Accelerating Etude" (tape composition) - Winner of the Outstanding Performance Award for graduates of the Visual Arts College, Osaka, Japan
2005 "Stereo Bugscope 00" (CD, Improvised Music from Japan) - awarded Honorary Mention in digital music category at Prix Ars Electronica 2005, Austria

Documentary movie appearances:
1990 Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel, Step Across The Border - a documentary film on Fred Frith, Germany

Books mentioning Haco's work:
2004 David Toop, Haunted Weather: Music, Silence, And Memory, UK
2016 David Novak, Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation (Sign, Storage, Transmission), USA
2016 Jennie Gottschalk, Experimental Music Since 1970, USA
2019 David Toop, Flutter Echo: Living Within Sound, UK
2020 Tsunaki Kadowaki, New Age Music Disk Guide, Japan

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