NoriNori (she/her) is a musician/creator who started learning Japanese koto as a child, later transgressed into a punk rocker, studied classical music and world music only to return to Japanse music specializing in taiko and shamisen. 

NoriNori (Noriko K. Kobayashi) acknowledges that the land on which she gathers and thrives upon is the unceded and traditional territories of the Coast Salish Peoples including the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh), Kwantlen, Katzie, SEMYOME (Semiahmoo) peoples or Nations