Sachiko M started her musical career in 1994. She became interested in the sound edition of jazzcore/experimental group Ground Zero managed by Yoshihide Ôtomo, in which she started her intensive use of sampling. Her sound sources are mostly drawn from Chinese operas and public archives, which raises the underlying problem of plagiarism.
The following years, with Ground Zero and other internal musicians, she participated in a number of festivals and events, in Japan as well as in Europe and Canada. Then in 1996, she recorded her first solo demo.
When the group Ground Zero disbanded in 1997, Sachiko M carried out a revolution in her approach to music and started her interest in simple resonance drawn from internal sampler sounds. Sachiko recorded her first solo album, Music for Headphone, solely comprised of simple sinusoidal signals, then returned to collaborate with Yoshihide Ôtomo on two electronic projects, Filament and I.S.O., which were performed on many international stages in the following years to come. At the same time she participated in recording albums with the experimental pop group Hoahio, alongside the singer Haco, and also played in concert with the artist Toshimaru Nakamura, whose approach to music she found very close to her own.
In 1998 Sachiko M founded the project Cosmos with the singer Ami Yoshida. Starting in 2000 and continuing over the next few years, she recorded a few albums with the Ôtomo Yoshihide New Jazz Orchestra, all while continuing to release her own solo albums.
In 2003 she recorded 1:2 for the French label a bruit secret. The latest stage in the development of Sachiko’s work is the combination of acoustics of a sampler without the three oscillators, which allows her to broaden the scope of her sound.
After several years without any releases, the album Salon de Sachiko dropped in 2007 and was her first release without using a sampler. Instead the sound is only generated by two oscillators.
Despite the different projects she participates in, the musical direction of Sachiko M has always stayed radically minimalist, and has not failed to invoke discussion and criticism among listeners not familiar with onkyo kei. Sachiko M is a truly remarkable and interesting artist, engaged deeply in this art of sound that she has brought to the attention of so many people.
