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Artist
Haruna Ito
11+ albums
ambientabstractsoundscapeminimalismmicrosound
about
Haruna Ito is a sonic and verbal poet who utilizes noise, both aural and literary, in the creation of evocative and unsettling landscapes. Born in industrial Kawasaki, Japan, Haruna moved to the United States at the age of three and lived there until age thirteen, where she absorbed the popular culture of the time, showing a particular interest in music from a very young age. With her experiences of living as a child of foreigners in America with its various prejudices, and again upon returning to Japan, as a social aberration who neither spoke nor read her native language, themes of dislocation and exile resonated in her early on, and still remain an integral motivation for her work. During her teenage years in Japan her fury found outlet in a number of bands (for which she wrote, sang, and occasionally damaged the bass guitar), fuelled by the typified anguish of the post-punk, new wave climate of the time. However, upon finishing school and "entering society" as it is called in Japan, haruna soon discovered that culture shock is not a momentary impact that passes, as the term would imply, but is in fact a prolonged situation, a chronic ailment of displacement recurring time after time, whether she was in America, Japan, or elsewhere. Dissatisfied and bored with guitar band music now, she quit playing in order to find something with more personal relevance. A need to get a grasp of the mechanisms and workings of language upon identity and memory (as well as frustration at
