Hideaki Shimada was born 1962, in Kanazawa, Japan. He has been involved in violin improvisation since 1980. In 1985 he started solo project, Agencement, in which he creates multi-layered violin improvisations and records them on magnetic tape.
ALBUMS
Hideaki Shimada With Evan Parker And Roger Turner
Kanazawa Duos
2019, CD, Album, Pico
Toshiji Mikawa, Hideaki Shimada, Nobuo Yamada, Katsuyoshi Kou
Quasispecies Four
2014, LP, Ltd, Art Into Life
Tetuzi Akiyama, Junji Hirose, Hideo Ikegami*, Ko Ishikawa, Kazushige Kinoshita, Toshihiro Koike, Madoka Kouno, Maresuke*, Kenichi Matsumoto, Hideaki Shimada, Manabu Suzuki, Daysuke Takaoka*
Septet//2013
2014, 2xCD, Pico
Kiyoshi Mizutani / Hideaki Shimada / Kiyoharu Kuwayama*
Gambetta
2008, CD, Album, Ltd, Monochrome Vision
Agencement
Boxe Consonantique
2001, CD, Album, Pico
APPEARANCES +
Hideaki Shimada
October Variations
2022, File, FLAC, Album, scatterArchive
Merzbow + Agencement
Rilievo
2025, CD, Album, Dig, Pico
Agencement
Binomial Cascades
2024, LP, Album, Pico
Agencement
Maceration
2021, File, FLAC, Not On Label (Agencement Self-released)
Sabu John Duo
Empty Spontaneity
2017, CD, Album, Chap Chap Records, 
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, Free Improvisation
Agencement
Early Works 1983-1986
2010, CD, Comp, Ltd, Edition Omega Point
Various
Lethe.Voice Festival Vol 2 00/10/4-9
2001, CDr, CD-ROM, Comp, Promo, Pale-Disc
Various
Etcetera Vol.3 Part 1: A Point Of Intersection Of Spontaneous Style
1998, VHS, Comp, NTSC, Etcetera (2)
Various
Land Of The Rising Noise (Music From Japan)
1993, CD, Comp, Charnel Music
Agencement
Viosphere
1991
Various
Map Of The Perimeter
2016, Cass, Album, Comp, Vitrine, 
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, Abstract/Experimental/Field Recording/Free Improvisation/Sound Collage
Various
MV X: Monochrome Visions 2004 - 2014
2014, 3xCD, Comp, Ltd, Monochrome Vision, 
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, Abstract/Ambient/Drone/Experimental/Industrial/Minimal/Musique Concrète/Noise
Various
Intransitive Twenty-Three
2004, ,
, Abstract
