Hiro Kone Artist Bio

Hiro Kone is Nicky Mao, a New York City based musician and producer: she uses a combination of hardware, synths, and modular to cultivate her sound.

In 2014, she released two EPs back to back. “The Unmoved Mover” (Group Tightener), seen as an extension of her previous Self-Titled EP (Bitterroots, 2012) it envisioned the factions and movements in the human psyche and soul from an indivisible prime source. While, “Fallen Angels”(Geographic North) in a nod to Wong Kar Wai, sourced Mao’s earliest memories of childhood in Hong Kong, repurposing vibrant fragments of the past through a disorienting array of sonic imagery.

Hiro Kone has participated in several collaborations, including a live score for Cinema 16 at The International House of Philadelphia (2012), “A Raga for Moog and Violin” with Arp (released 2016 on Geographic North), for David Van Tieghem x 10 Fits and Starts (RVNG Intl, 2013) and a live re-imagining of Little Annie Anxiety’s 1984 album “Soul Possession” (Pioneer Works, 2017).

Her full-length LP “Pure Expenditure” for Dais Records was premiered at Berlin Atonal 2018, following the release of “The Ghost of Georges Bataille”, a collaborative album with Drew McDowall (Compound Eye, Coil) on BANK Records NYC in Spring of 2018.

“A Fossil Begins To Bray” was released on Dais Records, Nov 8, 2019. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.