KK NULL   (real name : KAZUYUKI KISHINO) was born in Tokyo, Japan. Composer, guitarist, singer, mastermind of ZENI GEVA. One of the top names in Japanese noise music and in a larger context, one of the great cult artists in experimental music since the early 80′s.   In 1981 KK NULL studied at Butoh dancer, Min Tanaka’s “Mai-Juku” workshop and started his career by performing guitar improvisations in the clubs in Tokyo. He continued by collaborating with MERZBOW for two years, and joining the band YBO2 (with Masashi Kitamura, the chief editer of “Fool’s Mate” magazine and Tatsuya Yoshida, the drummer of RUINS) and starting the improvised noise/rock trio ABSOLUT NULL PUNKT (with Seijiro Murayama, the original drummer of Keiji Haino’s FUSHITSUSHA), and also GEVA2 (GEVA GEVA) with Tatsuya Yoshida (RUINS) and Eye Yamatsuka (BOREDOMS)   In 1985 he established his own label NUX ORGANIZATION to produce & release his own works and subsequently the bands such as MELT-BANANA and SPACE STREAKINGS. He also produced the series of “Dead Tech” (compilation albums by Japanese bands) which heralded Japanese alternative music boom internationally from the early 90′s to date.   In the early 90′s he gained world-wide recognition as the mastermind, guitarist and singer of the progressive hardcore band ZENI GEVA, releasing five albums produced by STEVE ALBINI (two on Jello Biafra’s Alternative Tentacles label) and a few more on other labels such as NEUROSIS’s Neurot Recordings. Also ZENI GEVA recorded twice for JOHN PEEL SESSION on BBC, and immensely toured throughout Europe, USA, Australia, New Zealand and Japan, playing hundreds of concerts.   All the while, KK NULL has worked on his solo career and collaborated with other musical innovators such as Z’EV, CHRIS WATSON, KEIJI HAINO, JON ROSE, MATMOS, FRED FRITH to name a few, and has been invited to perform at international festivals such as “Presences Électronique” in Paris (France), “Sonar” in Barcelona (Spain), “All Tomorrow’s Parties UK“, “Radar” in Mexico City (Mexico), “International Sound Art Festival” in Mexico City (Mexico), “Sergey Kuryokhin International Festival (SKIF-6 & 8)” in St.Petersburg & Moscow (Russia), “Elevate” in Graz (Austria), “X-peripheria” in Budapest (Hungary), “Liquid Architecture” in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane (Australia), “Totally Huge New Music Festival” in Perth (Australia), “Avanto Helsinki Media Art Festival” in Helsinki (Finland), “Roadburn” in Tilburg (Holland), “International Festival Musique Actuelle” in Victoriaville (Canada), “Electron” in Geneve (Switzerland), and more.   After playing the guitar as his main instrument for nearly thirty years, KK NULL has gradually moved towards a more electronic approach. Since the late 90′s he has concentrated his efforts on his solo & collaborative recordings, exploring the outer territories of electronica, creating intense clashing wave of noise, structured electro-acoustic ambience, broken down rhythmics, scattered pitch sculptures, droning isolationist material which could be described “cosmic noise maximal/minimalism”.   URIEL BARTHéLéMI   Uriel Barthélémi is a drummer, and an electro-acoustic musician.   He studied drums & electro-acoustic in French National Conservatories and at Ircam. As a composer, he creates since 2002 musics for puppet companies, theater companies, dance/multimedias groups, and for visual arts or exhibitions (Veronica Vallecillo dance company, Pseudonymo, Nicolas Clauss, Elise Boual, … ).   Intimately combining drums and electronics, a flexible composing style and improvisation, he is an associated composer to the Soundtrack company (Directed by Patricia Dallio), and is regularly working with the Puce Muse Studios as a musician and/or a multimedia creator.   He shared the stage and worked with numerous artists such as Hélène Breschand, Tarek Atoui, Kazuyuki Kishino (KK NULL), Robert A.A. Lowe, Antoine Schmitt, Susie Ibarra, Ikue Mori, Eric Pailhé, among other. He has played and performed in music and performances festivals such as Exodos (Lubjana), Jazzmandu (Katmandu), Scènes ouvertes à l’insolite (Paris), Villette numérique (Paris), The Jerusalem show (East Jerusalem), Irtijal (Beirut), Les Détours de Babel (Grenoble), Performa (N.Y.), Nuit blanche 2012 (Paris),  Memory Marathon (Serpentine Gallery, London), Sharjah Art Biennial 2013 (U.A.E.), Ruhr triennale 2013 .   « Uriel Barthélémi (…) creates compelling physical and psychological dramas through the intense production of sound. Combining drums and electronics, composition and improvisation, his work captures the very essence of live performance ». Valerie Grove (for the Al Mamal Art foundation).