Shinkoyo
Full results for Shinkoyo >>Shinkoyo is a collectively run label based in Brooklyn, Baltimore, Oakland, and other points around the United States. Almost without exception, the members of the collective met while undergraduates at the Oberlin Conservatory, and the members have since branched out to run performance spaces on both coasts, dabbled in the concept of "free" on the internet, and have continued to push themselves and each other into new forms of musical composition.
Musically, Shinkoyo is a label that outlines development, both as a social group working together to make new music, but also as individual composers. It offers a rare snapshot of the growth of young experimental composers. There are connections in the music of Shinkoyo to a wildly diverse set of influences, from icons such as Robert Ashley, Gordon Mumma, and David Tudor, to "outsider" influences such as Al Margolis and Annea Lockwood, to genre work from left field locations such as new age and hard noise electronics.
Shinkoyo represents a young generation of American composer working in the electronic genre. The members of the collective are pushing the boundaries of electronic, acoustic, pop, and experimental musics. They are voices of a way of doing things in new music that is just now starting to gain recognition, and it is with great pride that we add their music to DRAM.
