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Gimė 1959m. sausio 13 d., Japonijos mieste Kyoto.
1983m. kovą baigė Kyoto Menų Universitetą. Kurso tema: “Produkto industrinis dizainas”.
Dar besimokydamas labai domėjosi “industrial”, “noise”, avangardine muzika, ypač 70-ųjų vokiečių elektronine eksperimentine bei 80-ųjų industrine muzika. Domėjimasis paskatino eksperimentuoti su garsais. Jis tai darė naudodamas sintezartorių, efektus ir kompiuterį.
1990m. pirmą kartą įgarsino parodą. Grojo galerijose naudodamas draugų sukurtą meninę vandens instaliaciją kaip pradinį garso šaltinį.
1991-ųjų birželį savo projektui davė pavadinimą - “AUBE”. Tuo metu buvo galutinai suformuluota viena iš projekto koncepcinių linijų, - naudoti atskirą medžiagą kaip garso pradinį šaltinį, - apibrėžtas grojimo stilius ir būdas. Akifumi grojo “ambient noise” ir “harsh noise” iš atskirų medžiagų išgaunamus garsus apdorojęs analoginiais, skaitmeniniais muzikos efektais, kilpindamas juos tam tikra seka. Tuo pat metu “Aube” pradėjo dažniau koncertuoti ir bendradarbiauti su kitais “noise” muzikos atlikėjais tiek Japonijoje, tiek užsienyje.
1992-ųjų gegužę įkūrė nepriklausomą leidyklą “G.R.O.S.S.” savo ir kitų vertų dėmesio įrašų leidybai. Akifumi pats leisdavo ir apipavidalindavo kasetes. Iki 2000-ųjų “G.R.O.S.S.” leidykloje buvo sukurti 59 leidiniai, o nuo 2000-ųjų “G.R.O.S.S.” pradėjo leisti CDR-us. “G.R.O.S.S.” leidiniai buvo ir yra platinami visame pasaulyje.
Nuo 1992-ųjų Akifumi kūrė muziką Kyoto šokių grupei “OP.EKLEKT”. Su šia šokių grupe Akifumi kelis kartus koncertavo. Tuo metu kompozitorius taip pat grojo su kitais “noise” atlikėjais bendruose muzikiniuose projektuose "CLUB SKULL", "KINKAKUJI", "GINKAKUJI", "GOKURAKUJI", "SIAN", "LOOP CIRCUIT", "HYPER VENTILATION", "MEIJI JINGU", "ISE JINGU", "HEIAN JINGU", "ATSUTA JINGU", miksavo ir remiksavo kitų atlikėjų kūrinius bei kūrė jų leidiniams dizainą.
1993m. rugpjūtį japonų leidybinė kompanija “VANILLA RECORDS” išleido pirmą “AUBE” kompaktinę CD plokštelę “Flood-Gate”, o 1994m. pasirodė pirmas leidinys užsienyje. JAV leidybinė bendrovė “STOMACH ACHE RECORDS” išleido 7 colių vinilinę plokštelę “AQUATREMBLE”. Vėliau “AUBE” leido daugybė užsienio leidybinių bendrovių, tačiau daugelio įpakavimo dizainą kūrė pats Akifumi Nakajima.

- January 1959, Born in Kyoto Japan.
- March 1983, Graduated from the Kyoto University of Art (Post-graduate course : Product [Industrial] Design).
- Be interested in electronics, Avant-garde, Industrial, Noise and Computer music since in school. Especially, '70s German experimental music and '80s Industrial Music, start to make sounds by synthesizers and other electronics with computer which self-studied.
- 1990, Start to make the sound since the soundtrack for the exhibition by friends. Start to play live performance at some exhibitions in the galleries to use their installations as source material.
- June 1991, Named own noise sound project's name as "AUBE" and start to expand the activities more. "To use limited material as sound source" as concept, play solo live performances in several place, and simultaneously, contact to several noise artists in several countries. Expand the sounds style from hard noise to ambient noise, use several real sounds as source material and treat them by sampling manipulations and analog/digital effects.
- May 1992, Start to own independent cassette label "G.R.O.S.S.". Produce, design and release several cassettes include own projects and several noise artists in several countries. 59 titles/ of the cassette release and since 2000, it turns to CD-R releases. All are distributing in USA, Germany, Hollland, France and other countries.
- 1992, Start to the soundtrack for the performance dance group "OP.EKLEKT" from Kyoto. And also play live performance shows with them in several places. Simultaneously, start to collaboration with other noise artists. Release as other projects "CLUB SKULL", "KINKAKUJI", "GINKAKUJI", "GOKURAKUJI", "SIAN", "LOOP CIRCUIT", "HYPER VENTILATION", "MEIJI JINGU", "ISE JINGU", "HEIAN JINGU", "ATSUTA JINGU" and others. And also do mix/re-mix the sounds and design the covers of other artists.
- August 1993, The first CD "FLOOD-GATE" released on VANILLA RECORDS in Kyoto Japan. March 1994, The first 7" EP record "AQUATREMBLE" released on STOMACH ACHE RECORDS in USA. Contribute to several compilations. Almost other solo noise works as Aube released on other labels in foreign countries. Design the cover/package of almost releases by myself.

- June 1997, Invited the festival in France (Nevers "Musiques Ultimates", after then, do first European Tour(France, Austria, Germany And Holland).

- June-July 1998, Invited the festival in Sweden (Stockholm "Nursery Injection", after then, do second European Tour(France, Holland, Germany And England).

- March-April 2000, Invited the festival in Canada (London, Ontario "No Music Festival 2000"), after then, play in Montreal Canada.

- June 2000, Invited the festival in Holland (Amsterdam, Japanese Freaquencies in "Holland Feastival").

- October 2000, Invited the festival in Belgium (Brussels, Music And Archtecture in "Brussels 2000").

- June 2001, Invited the project in Canada (Montreal, "Silophone"), after then play in Detroit first time in USA.

- December 2001, Invited the festival in Spain (Valencia, "Observatori 2001")

- December 1996, group exhibition "Art Calendar 1997" at Art Space Niji, Kyoto Japan.

- December 1996, solo exhibition "Akifumi Nakajima - Aube/G.R.O.S.S. - Sound & Package Design Exhibition" at Art Space Niji, Kyoto Japan.

- April 1997, group exhibition "Oto To Asobu" at Yuurinkan, Gunma Japan.

- June 1997, Yoko Higuchi "Up Up Water" at Kyoto Art Festival (sound source contribution).

- 1997, group exhibition "Ear As Eyes" at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, USA (sound source & artwork contribution).

- 1997, group exhibition "Sight Of Sound" at Anomalous Records, USA (sound source & artwork contribution).

- 1998, group exhibition "Book" at Voice Gallery, Kyoto Japan (sound source contribution).

- December 2000, group exhibition "Art Calendar 2001" at Art Space Niji, Kyoto Japan.

- December 2001, group exhibition "Alchemy Records Art Exhibition" at Fukugan Gallery, Osaka Japan.

The music that Akifumi Nakajima has been creating under the name of Aube can be expressed as "electronically generated organic music". Aube was designed as a sonic generative unit under a creed; only sounds arising from one limited material are used for constructing one musical piece. Each material is seen in our daily life or even inside ourselves: water, fire, air, earth, stone, ice, can, metal, wire, glass, fluorescence, glow-lamp vibration, clock, bloody pulse, heartbeat, brain wave, respiration. These just reflect topics in his past sonic adventures, and would never prohibit the use of different materials in future. Through his fraternization with the nature of these materials, he seemed to learn the way to "dance" with their imagination in his brain through meditation about them. In such a process, his music turns to absolutely relaxed and enjoyable sonic stimulus with "neurobeat" in spite its experimental nature. The novel entertainment from Aube has been accepted in numbers of countries in the world through releases and distributions of his sound products and actual live performances.

Here, a brief description of Akifumi's history is presented for further appreciation of the beauty of Aube music. Akifumi was born in Kyoto, on January 1959. Throughout his life in the past, he has spent his life at the city where the beauty of Japanese tradition has been maintained. He was interested in the creation of objects, especially in the alteration of aspects of original materials through modification techniques. He had so skillful technique to construct plastic models in the precise way as he got the premier prize in a contest for people to build plastic models of tanks. Simultaneously, he loved the alienation to create novel figures through combining parts from different sets of models. It is not difficult that his sense of alienation in plastic models casts its shadows before sonic manipulation in Aube.

He has finished the division of product design in the post-graduate course of the Kyoto University of the Art in 1983. During the period in the university, his has interested in some specific types pf music, so called avant-garde, industrial, noise, computer-operated music. Especially, German electronic music in the 1970’s and industrial music in the 1980's attracted him. Although the combination of music attracting him was rather "typical" as Japanese listeners of underground music, he responded to such stimuli with his own way. He was self-educated to use synthesizers and personal computers for the construction of favorite music for himself.

He moved his action from the individual to the public level. As a phenomenon, he has been involved in "Artistic Scene" in the beginning of such a transfer. In 1990, he was requested to create music in conjunction with an installation using water as materials. The contemporary artist who gave the stimulus to Akifumi was his friend. Then, he used sounds of water as parts for constructing his electronic music in return to the friend's demand. The occasion was the initiation of collaborative performance with contemporary artists in various exhibitions, and his first audio cassette "Water 1990" was sold out in the first exhibition.

In 1991, he set a solo-noise project Aube under the creed described above. Apart from the collaborative art exhibitions, he himself as a sonic designer began to play live music at clubs. This change in his attitude resulted in robust interchanges with various noise artists in Japan and all over the world. His works, in which sounds arising from each limited source were manipulated through sampling and analog/digital processing, ranged from the ambient to the harsh area in the noise field at the time.

In 1992, he founded own cassette-only producing label G.R.O.S.S. to publish works by himself and others from various countries. G.R.O.S.S. cassettes were accepted well in the world due to the musical quality and excellent packaging by Akifumi as an industrial designer. During 6 years, the period that G.R.O.S.S. was active as a cassette label, 59 cassette albums were published. Now G.R.O.S.S. returned as a label for publishing CD-Rs. The CD-Rs by Aube were released from the year of 2000, and distributed in U.S.A., Germany, Netherlands, France, U.K. and other countries.

In the history of Aube, the collaboration with Op.Eklekt, a theatrical and dance-oriented contemporary performance duo, should be noticed. In 1992, Akifumi began collaborate with them, and a video clip from their collaboration has been recorded in an issue of "Oh! Moro" compilation from "Maru ka Batsu" in Osaka, which featured a bunch of Japanese noise.

Aube has never hesitated to be hybridized with other musicians as a unit. You should notice his collaborative sonic units; Club Skull, Kinkaku-Temple, Ginkaku-Temple, Gokuraku-Temple, SIAN, Loop Circuit, Hyper Ventilation, Meiji-Shrine, Ise-Shrine, Heian-Shrine, Atsuta-Shrine. Akifumi has been appreciated through contributions to works by other artists through mixing and/or remixing of sounds and designing their packages.

Aube has released numerous discs since the CD "Flood Gate" created through constructions of water-originated sounds on Vanilla Records, Kyoto, Japan in 1993. Seven inch single disc "Aquatremble" arose from water sounds again and released from Stomach Ache Records in Mexico/U.S.A., next year. Perspectives of Aube works, including its prolific participation to compilations in world-wide level, would be recognized in the separate discography. Akifumi contributes to package designing of almost all releases. Furthermore, note that Aube has been invited to various festivals and events in the Europe and the North America. The activity of Aube is absolute expression of hybridization of Japanse traditional sense of beauty, the perspective to the fraternization between material and mental world and the electronic culture.