Tujiko Noriko is a France-based musician, singer, songwriter and filmmaker. In 2000 Peter Rehberg and Christian Fennesz discover her first demo track tapes and she debuts with album Shojo-Toshi on Mego. Critically acclaimed in the avant-garde electronica circuit, she is invited in festivals like Sonar, Benicassim, Mutek etc, and performs worldwide. She has to date released 20 highly regarded albums released through Editions Mego, FatCat, Room 40 and PAN. Her 2002 album Hard Ni Sasete receives an Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica.
Tujiko writes music for films, dance performances, animations and art installations, and collaborates with renowned musicians Peter Rehberg, Nobukazu Takemura and Lawrence English. In 2005 Tujiko also made her first two films, Sand and Mini Hawaii and Sun, have been shown internationally in venues such as the Foundation Cartier in Paris and Uplink in Tokyo. In 2017, she co-writes and co-directs with Joji Koyama the feature length film Kuro which premiered in Slamdance 2017 and was shown on Mubi. In 2020–21 her music piece was in the exhibition Audiosphere at Museo Reina Sofia – the first exhibition in a major contemporary art museum with no images and no objects at all.
She made a score for a feature film Surge which was shown in Sundance and Berlin international film festival in 2020, also for Mission Report, a film by Mira Sanders and Cedric Noel premiered at la Botanique in 2022. She is currently writing a new film with Joji Koyama.
Her latest album is Crepuscule I&II from Editions Mego.
This summer, for the first time in years, I had a few days at home to myself to just relax. It was a bit lonely, but at the same time, it felt like such a luxury. I spent the days lounging around and doing as I pleased. During that time, I recorded this music.
I’ve always admired rap, but I can't do it myself, so I looked for an AI rapper who would rap what I wrote, unfortunately or fortunately, I couldn’t find one yet, so instead, it ended up like AI monologue. Creating a longer piece of music was really fun. Somehow, it felt more like capturing a moment in life compared to writing a four-minute music. I had to finish the track but it felt like this piece had already been going on before and would keep going after. Here are the lyrics. Thank you for listening, and thank you, Andrew, for inviting me!