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Kazuhisa Uchihashi
electric guitar/daxophone／composer

was born in Osaka, Japan in 1959. Plays guitar since his twelfth years, mainly "Pop'n Roll" thoroughout his teens. Later he became involved in jazz. Since 1983 he has devoted himself intensively to free improvised music. He experimented thouroughly with many different kinds of machines and sound-devices to expand the expression possibilities of the electric guitar.
He also composed music for films, theatre plays, dance. Among them, he has been working with Japanese Thertre group "ISHINHA" for more than 25 years.
He made a name for himself in Japan in concerts with such improvising musicians as Hans Reichel, Fred Frith,Tom Cora, Ned Rothenberg, Barre Phillips, Kan Tae Fwan, Peter Brotzman, Derek Bailey , Samm Bennett , Steve Beresford , Zeena Parkins, Elliott Sharp ,Eugene Chadbourne,Henry Kaiser,Chris Cutler , Charles Hayward ,Han Bennink, Shelley Hirsch, Franz Hautzinger, Mani Neumeier ,Chiristian Marclay,Mark Feldman, Joel Leandre and many others.
He has been conducting his rock-oriented powerful improvised band "Altered States" for 21 years and continues to create his own new guitar music in soloas well as in "Altered States". He was also member of Otomo Yoshihide's GROUND ZERO for years.
Since 1995 he has been starting to direct "Improvisation Workshop" for young Improviser in KOBE every month, and now he is going to continue it in Tokyo,London,Oslo,Wroclaw,Warsaw and other cities.
Since 1996 he has also been organizing the Interntional New Music festival "BEYOND INNOCENCE" in Osaka until 2007.
He is known by one of daxophone player .Daxophone is unique instrument invented by Hans Reichel.
Recently he started new project with his own multi phonic surround system.
Recently he moved to Vienna from Tokyo.