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OLIVIER ALARY/ENSEMBLE BJÖRK KIM CASCONE CHRISTOPHE CHARLES MAX EASTLEY YOSHIHIRO HANNO A.K.A. MULTIPHONIC ENSEMBLE KEN IKEDA AKIRA RABELAIS RYUICHI SAKAMOTO PAUL SCHÜTZE DAVID TOOP YURIHITO WATANABE Music is integral to the culture of fashion, and many designers collaborate with musicians or use sound on the catwalk. The sound in this exhibition has been specially commissioned and selected by composer and curator, David Toop. The composers contributing to Radical Fashion are at the forefront of digital music and sound art. In their different ways, they are exploring new forms in technology, song writing or composition; all exemplify the geographical and stylistic fluidity of contemporary music. OLIVIER ALARY/ENSEMBLE Olivier Alary was born in Toulouse, France, in 1975. He first studied architecture then sonic art, and created Ensemble in 1998, making music which has been described as explorative pop. He has released several experimental albums. 
BJÖRK Björk Gudmundsdottir was born in Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1965. She has worked with artists at the cutting edge of different disciplines, including Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan, and photographer Nick Knight. In 2000 she both starred in and composed the soundtrack for Lars von Trier's film Dancer in the Dark. Her latest solo album is Vespertine.
KIM CASCONE Kim Cascone has created electronic music for many years, including work for David Lynch's Twin Peaks and Wild at Heart. He founded the US's leading electronic music label, Silent Records. He later worked as a sound designer of new sound algorithms for video games. Since 1980 he has released more than 15 albums of electronic music.
CHRISTOPHE CHARLES Christophe Charles has lived in Tokyo since 1989 where he is Associate Professor at Musashino Art University. He works with found-sounds and makes compositions using computer programs, insisting on the autonomy of each sound and the absence of hierarchical structure. He has collaborated with leading musicians, visual artists and performers.
MAX EASTLEY Max Eastley began to investigate the relationshipof chance to music and visual art in the late 1960s. He creates automata which use the environmental forces of wind, streams and sea to move kinetic sound devices. His work has been included in many major international exhibitions.
YOSHIHIRO HANNO A.K.A. MULTIPHONIC ENSEMBLE Hanno began to perform in the late 1980s, mixing poetry reading and hip-hop elements in his Avant-Garde Jazz unit. He is currently working with Ryuichi Sakamoto on a collaborative project. He has released several albums and composed soundtracks for the new wave of Chinese cinema.
KEN IKEDA Ken Ikeda was born in Tokyo in 1964. He attended Berklee College of Music in Boston and has since participated regularly in exhibitions. He has composed music for Mariko Mori and David Lynch shows, and was included in Sonic Boom at the Hayward Gallery in 2000. He has recently been invited to appear in a solo exhibition at the ICA in London.
AKIRA RABELAIS Akira Rabelais was born in South Texas in 1966. He gained his Masters from the California Institute of the Arts. He is the author of various Macintosh software programmes, and has had two major releases on CD. He describes himself as 'a composer writing software, not an engineer making music.'
RYUICHI SAKAMOTO Award-winning composer and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto has made a career crossing musical and technological boundaries. He has excelled in popular, orchestral and film music throughout his long career. In 1987 his score for Bertolucci's The Last Emperor won an Oscar. He premiered his first opera Life in 1999.
PAUL SCHÜTZE Born in Australia, Paul Schütze has scored numerous films and released over twenty albums of original work. He has collaborated with many artists, and is currently working on installation pieces which explore connections between sound and image and between memory and the built environment.
DAVID TOOP David Toop is a musician, composer, writer, musicologist and sound curator. He has published widely and released numerous albums. He curated Sonic Boom at the Hayward Gallery in 2000 and is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Sound Department of the London Institute. YURIHITO WATANABE Yurihito Watanabe was born in Tokyo. Since the beginning of the 1980s he has worked as a voice improvisor and cellist, and has performed widely, working with voice, breath, words, physical materials and computer systems.
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