Designed by UK-based Joe Gilmore and curated by Kikù Hibino for Signal Noise, Sedonis is a new four-part work by Masami Akita, produced using computer, modular electronics, and handmade instruments. The title refers to an image inspired by Barunga, the balloon monster from Ultra Q — a floating, cloud-like form with tendrils. The album offers a dynamic and atmospheric listening experience that reflects Merzbow’s distinctive approach to noise in 2025.
Packaged in a thick, double-sleeved jacket with die-cut windows. The outer shell is printed in silver and letter-pressed in black on a vintage Heidelberg cylinder press. Each copy is printed and hand-assembled in Chicago by Rohner Press and limited to 300 copies.
Dimensions: 12.5 x 12"
Materials: Outer Jacket: A thick, ultrawhite eggshell card, printed in silver and letter‑pressed in black on a vintage Heidelberg cylinder press. Inner Jacket: A high-gloss sleeve that houses a solid 140g 12‑inch record and elegantly frames its center label.
Signal Noise (SN)
(Southside / Hyde Park)
Signal Noise (SN) is an experimental artist platform for avant-garde electronic music, noise, and video art. Founded in 2021 by Kikù Hibino and the late Gregory Bae in Chicago, SN supports sonic and visual works that challenge genre conventions and foreground voices shaped by displacement and layered identity, exploring new modes of aesthetic resistance and resonance.
Kikù Hibino
(Hyde Park)
Chicago-based and Japanese-born sound artist KIKÙ HIBINO produces cross-genre electronic music.
From chamber music for media productions to digital micro sound for art installations, he has collaborated internationally with a wide variety of artists and scholars, including Kawaguchi Takao (Dumb Type), Curtis Roads, Theaster Gates , Mike Weis (Zelienople), Mitsu Salmon and Yuge Zhou.