Niko’s practice pursues a musical, humanistic, and integrative approach to sound and technology. Niko performs and improvises with acoustic, digital, analog, electro-mechanical, and hybrid instruments.
Niko’s work has been presented with the Composers Conference (AFMI), the Yarn/Wire International Institute, the Etchings Festival (VCCA France), the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Moody Center for the Arts, the James Turrell Skyspace (“Twilight Epiphany”, 2012), the HYDRA Loudspeaker Orchestra, Guerilla Opera, Musiqa, and Electric LaTex—and selected for performance at the FSU Biennial Festival for New Music and Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS).
Niko’s experience includes working with experimental electro-acoustic studios—BEAMS (Brandeis University), HUSEAC (Harvard University), REMLabs (Rice University), and the Experimental Music Studios (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign). Yamamoto attained degrees in composition-theory from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and composition from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University; Niko is a doctoral candidate (ABD) at Brandeis University. Before teaching at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Niko was on the teaching staff of Harvard University (HUSEAC), Brandeis University (BEAMS), and the Shepherd School of Music’s Preparatory Program (Young Children’s Division).
Niko lives and works independently in Cambridge, MA.