Drummer and composer Ikue Mori moved from Tokyo to New York in 1977 and shortly thereafter formed the seminal No Wave band DNA with Arto Lindsay and Tim Wright. When the group disbanded in 1982, she began performing improvisations and collaborating with artists such as Fred Frith, Kato Kideki, Marc Ribot, Tom Cora, and John Zorn. In 1990, she received an NEA grant to work with filmmaker Abigail Child, marking the beginning of several soundtrack projects for Mori. After winning the Prix Ars Electronics award in Digital Music in 1999, Mori began using laptop computers to create not only sounds but visual materials as well. This fascination with mixed media has more recently led Mori to incorporate animated cutouts from Japanese woodblock prints into her presentations. Mori has received grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and the NY Electronic Art Festival/NYSCA. In 2007, she was commissioned to create a live sound track for the silent films of Maya Deren, and she has also received commissions from Montalvo Arts Center and WSR German radio program. In 2009, Mori served as curator for Unlimited 23, a three-day music festival in Wels, Austria. Her current groups include The Kibyoshi Project with Mark Nauseef and Koichi Makigami, MEPHISTA with Sylvie Courvoisier and Susie Ibarra, projects with Kim Gordon, PHANTOM ORCHARD with Zeena Parkins, and various projects with John Zorn.