Agencement

Agencement is the solo project of the Japanese violinist Hideaki Shimada, born in 1962 and based in Kanazawa. Shimada started playing improvised violin in 1980 and launched Agencement in 1985, building pieces from his own violin improvisations layered on magnetic tape. In live sets he plays amplified, electronically treated violin. Shimada's best known albums as Agencement are Viosphere (1991) and Boxe Consonantique (2001), both well received in Japan and abroad. His catalogue also includes Orchestral Works 1, Binomial Cascades and Rilievo, a collaboration with Merzbow.