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Live: ◆Nostalgic Comedy Koichi Makigami × Hair Stylistics ◆Dystopia Mia Zabelka × Hiroshi Mehata ◆Post Freedom Party Killers! (Jin Harada + Suppa Micro Pamchopp + Shogo Haraguchi) Alive Painting: Akiko Nakayama Dj: Dj healthy Artist information: Koichi Makigami  Koichi Makigami is leader, vocalist, thereminist, cornet and shakuhachi player for rock band Hikashu. He is known for his virtuosic vocal range and expression as well as his unique incorporation of elements of theatre, performance, and entertainment, all of which make this Japanese band so widely acclaimed both critically and popularly. Makigami is also active as voice improvisation artist and solo performer and has worked and collaborated with a great many artists and musicians in a wide variety of areas and styles, including Yuji Takahashi, John Zorn, Meredith Monk, David Moss, Ikue Mori, Phil Minton, Lauren Newton, Jaap Blonk, Carl Stone, Jon Rose, Guy Klucevsek, Derek Bailey, John Talor, Jim O’Rouke, Thomas Stronen and more. Makigami formed Japan Tuva Khoomei Association in 1998 and has invited many Tuvan singers to Japan. Ongoing projects include his aforementioned avant-pop unit, performances using interactive computer technology, voice improvisation, and various work as organizer and producer. Recent works include: HIKASHU album “Silence be alive" (2015 makigami record). Voice performance piece Chakurupa 1,2 3,4 and Chakurupattam (2003-2014). Vocal conduction piece Chakurupa navi (2006). Solo theremin album "Moon Eather" (2006 doubtmusic). Solo voice album "Koedarake" (2005 Tzadik). Since 2008, he also serves as main producer for Jazz Art Sengawa. [Koichi Makigami official site](http://www.makigami.com) Hair Stylistics  Hair Stylistics also known by his stage names Violent Onsen Geisha, is a Japanese musician, writer and actor. He was described by Allmusic as "one of those musical entities that defy categorization. He co-starred in Shinji Aoyama's 2005 film My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me with Tadanobu Asano. (Photo by Hideto Maezawa) Mia Zabelka  Mia Zabelka is a noise artist, composer as well as an amazing experimental violinist and vocalist from Vienna, with czech, jewish and french familiar background. After completing her training with a strong classical emphasis, she continued to construct and explore the limits of sound and music in a language entirely her own, based on the de- and reconstruction of the violin’s sonic possibilities, expanding the range of the instrument using live electronic devices, preparing it through the insertion of alien objects between or on the strings and innovative performance techniques. Mia Zabelka describes this process as AUTOMATIC PLAYING, continuously exploring sound and music as physical phenomena, always pushing back the boundaries in experimental performances and compositions that question established notions, improving the available techniques and given structures. The violin and her own voice and body are transformed in the process into sound bodies which are at once organic and primal, screaming, lyrical, composed and explosive. She has collaborated with a string of exciting artists from around the world, such as Robin Rimbaud, Pauline Oliveros, Electric Indigo, Dälek, Lydia Lunch, Saffronkeira, Phill Niblock, John Zorn, John Russell, Maggie Nicols and Audrey Chen. She has given concerts and performances at many Festivals throughout Europe, America and Asia. Numerous CD, vinyl and video releases. Recipient of highly regarded prizes (3-time winner oft the Prix Ars Electronica) and awards, she was a guest of the DAAD's (German Academic Exchange Service's) international artists' programme in Berlin and the Fulbright Commission in New York. Mia Zabelka is currently the artistic director of Phonofemme Festival Vienna and Klanghaus Untergreith in the region of South Styria. [Mia Zabelka official site](http://www.miazabelka.com) Hiroshi Mehata  Mehata's music explores the subconscious boundaries between light and shadow, vision and hearing, death and rebirth. In a radical fusion of old Japanese ritual music and futuristic psychedelic noise, Mehata's ethereal soundscapes express the transitory states of mind experienced in the fleeting moments when leaving reality and entering a dream, opening the doors to a new era of music from Japan. In his album Noum Zeccyou, the super-future is thus united with the super-past. [Hiroshi Mehata official site](http://www.mehatasentimentallegend.com/) 
Party Killers! (Jin Harada + Suppa Micro Pamchopp + Shogo Haraguchi) Jin Harada  Since the mid-1990s, Jin started activities with BAZOOKA JOE with SO SHUJI, and KICKS with Yuji Katsui. Experience in numerous sessions and overseas tours. He has been a guitarist for many years on the Koenji Hyakkei led by Tatsuya Yoshida. Formed ROVO in the late 1990s. The band has taken three world tours and eight albums, several pieces of live album and DVD released so far. He also has started the US tour as a solo didjeridu player since 2004, then from 2013 he developed solo activities centered on voice in the name of Hearts & Minds. Released his solo album from doubtmusic in 2014. [Jin Harada official site](http://jindestroy.web.fc2.com/schedule.html) Suppa Micro Pamchopp  Since 1998, he has released seven electronics music albums from Label Childisc of Nobukazu Takemura. From 2013, he is a representative of Record Mizukoshi. DJ, composer, song, drum, producer, design, illustration, nude model etc... [Suppa Micro Pamchopp](http://suppasuppa.web.fc2.com) [レコード水越](http://suppasupp2.wixsite.com/record-mizukoshi) Shogo Haraguchi  A noise bassist. Live and recording activities based in Germany from the middle of 2000s. After that, moved to base in Tokyo and formed the experimental　improvisation unit Gaiamamoo with Hiroshi Mehata in 2012. Tour the countries abroad such as Spain and US. In 2017, the band appeared in Noise / Experimental Liberation Festival Ende Tymes 7 in NY. He is also a host and curator of sounds battle session event “Buzz On Kai” in Tokyo. [Gaiamamoo official site](https://gaiamamoo.wixsite.com/official) [Buzz音会](https://www.facebook.com/BuzzOnKai/) Akiko Nakayama  Visual artist Akiko Nakayama creates installations, live performance and photographic works dealing with energy cycles, movement and colors. Employing a wide range of techniques, her unique approach to live painting results in melting landscapes, kaleidoscopic patterns and surreal and saturated vistas. Working in collaboration with some of Japan’s most distinctive improvising artists, including Keiji Haino, Akira Sakata and Hiromichi Sakamoto, she pursues what she titles ‘alive painting’, in which she aims to find the ‘existence of life’ in the act of creating out of nothingness. [Akiko Nakayama official site](http://akiko.co.jp/akikoweb/top.html) Dj healthy