Mami Chan

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Mami Chan (Mami Sato) was a Japanese electronic ambient musician, pianist, songwriter and sound artist from Japan. She studied piano at the Kunitachi College of Music in Tachikawa, Tokyo, and later moved to Caen, France in 1993 after briefly staying in the United Kingdom. In France, Mami Chan spread, composed, and participated in the construction of what she called «l’underground joyeux», or 'the happy underground'. She defined her synchronization of musical geographies and genres as "collaborative, inspiring, inventive' and 'attentive to old and young souls, often at the same time'. The creative direction of her work involves the usage of toy pianos, cryptographic sound, and a rhythmic mixture of children's music and mature themes, often superimposing the two to create aesthetic distance and twee electronic peculiarity. In Mami Chan's youth she studied piano from her childhood to the conservatory. She experienced mostly frustration during her initial forays into music - she later recounted that she still however, adored her Schumann, Satie, and Chopin, even more than Bowie or his favorite Japanese singer when she was little, Doji Morita. She later told the magazine France Culture in 2002 that Satie had inspired her to "play Chopin etudes in the forest"; it was her dream in Japan to "have total fun with her instrument", which she thought was impossible in the oppressive environment of the conservatory. Music was taught to be too rigid, too severe, and altogether too orthodo