Kyoka

Kyoka is the first solo female artist on the 『raster-noton』 roster – one of the most influential music label which covering the overlapping border areas of pop, art and science, founder of the label are Carsten Nicolai (a.k.a Alva Noto), Byeton and Frank Bretschneider. This label released music of Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ryoji Ikeda, Mika Vainio, Taylor Deupree, Atom TM, Alva Noto, Byetone, Frank Bretschneider etc– and works as a musician/composer in Berlin and Tokyo. She is known for her
chaotic and direct musical approach and a heavy-rough sound, resulting in a broken pop-beat with experimental yet danceable rhythms. In 1999 she started to explore the potential of synthesizers/computers and　began a trip as a backpacker with her small synthesizer at will. USA, Spain, France, UK etc. There, she experienced to improvise music with some local underground artists and learned difference in expression by personality, regionality and the musicality. Now she is globally one of the representative electric music, experimental techno composer and sound-artist.