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Percussionist, born in 1992 in Hokkaido. Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts after studying percussion at the high school attached to the Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts. Upon graduation, he received the Acanthus Music Award and the Doseikai Award. As a leader project, he leads Answer to Remember, SMTK, and Songbook Trio, and has participated in numerous live performances and productions by Quruli, Ringo Sheena, KID FRESINO, Ozora Kimishima, CRCK/LCKS, and many others.

SF (Soulful) writer/tension critic/professional playboy.
His independent magazine “T.M.I.” released in '22 and '23 was a small historical hit.
He is a narrator in an R&B band called Young Love, and is also active in a neo picture-story unit, Pegasus Dan.

Born in 1997, born and lives in California, USA. Currently a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley. While continuing to work as an agent to connect artists in Japan and abroad, and to connect music and society, he also writes as a writer. Her first book, “Sekai to Watashi no A to Z,” a compilation of serial articles from the literary magazine “Gunzo,” will be followed by “#Z-Generation Values” (both from Kodansha) in the fall of 2023.

Editor, border culture researcher, dramaturg, and representative of TISSUE Inc.
He is active mainly in the fields of publishing, art, and public projects, with the aim of “thinking about expression and society from the perspective of movement and boundaries. He writes an irregular column “Border Crabs” on Torch web.
IG / X @adtkfm

ライター・編集者。海外映画を専門に、評論やコラム、インタビューなどを書籍・雑誌・映画パンフレット・ウェブメディアなど多数の媒体で執筆。国内舞台作品のリサーチ・コンサルティングも務める。

Editor and writer. Born in Tokyo.

MUSICA Editorial Department

Graduated in 2018 from Tama Art University, Department of Painting, Oil Painting Major, and received the prize for excellence in graduation work. Based on his interest in social issues, he conducts research and creates sound and two-dimensional works and installations combining words, etc. In April 2006, as part of his research, he began working with words across domains, including advertising, magazines, books, and television. He plans and writes mainly for cultural media such as the web version of Bijutsu Techo, ARTnewsJAPAN, tattva, and BRUTUS. Major exhibitions include “Tranquil Light, Form of Swimming” (Sta.) in 2020.

Planning and coordinating performances by Korean artists in Japan and Korea. Also writes, curates, and appears in media related to Korean music.
Organizer of the DJ event “Meh Meh Night,” which travels between Seoul and Tokyo, and “umm edition,” which connects Japanese and Korean electronic music. His favorite spot in Korea is Kimbap Heaven. His favorite drink is 삼다수.

1995 / photographer / graphic designer
IG / X @kailua_konatsu

Representative of good and son. born in 1981 in Sendai, Japan. After graduating from Rikkyo University, he worked at the traveling bookstore “BOOK246” from 2004, and was a member of the book selection group BACH from 2006 to 2016. In 2023, he launched the publishing label “wordsworth” and planned and published Yuta Orisaka's (song) lyrics collection “Have you ever talked to me?

Writer and music selector with a theme of region and climate. Presides over B.O.N., an editorial production on travel and festivals. His major publications include "Nanyo no Songline" (Kiltibooks), "Bon Odori no Sengo Shishi" (The Postwar History of Bon Odori) (Chikuma Shobo), "Oku Tokyo-jin ni Aini ni Iku" (Going to Meet Oku Tokyo People) (Shobunsha), "Nippon no Matsurism" (Artes Press), and "Nippon Daiondo Jidai" (The Nippon Great Ondo Era) (Kawade Shobo Shinsha).