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Akio Mokuno is an electronic music composer, a sound engineer and a noise performer. After exploring psychedelic rock in Japan, he moved to New York in 1994 and joined the Post No Wave/Noise band, Electoputas as a bass and voice performer. In the late 90’s, he performed as a sampler improviser and jam with various free jazz/experimental musicians and visual artists, such as Damo Suzuki, Sabir Marteen, Tatsuya Yoshida, 99Hooker, and Benton C Bainbridge. He also worked with Nou dancer/ film director, Toshi Hamada by mixing sound collage of traditional Japanese and Balinese sounds. Gerard Malanga once called him 'a remarkable and multidimensional talent – a true avant-gardiste of the first order. |