Yukitomo Hamasaki is sound artist and he has founder of Japanese sound/art publishing organization "mAtter" besed in Tokyo.his music career at the age of 18, taking his cues from DJing. His interested are light, a cloud, complex pattern and the collision that has happened by micro space. And his theme is to compose them as a musical composition. Moreover, his another work : the installation work and the graphic design.
about mAtter : mAtter is a sound & design label, with works centering around Yukitomo Hamasaki. The label take an approach to various types of media, such as sound design, architecture, and product design. It interprets/restructures these concepts in a lot of different ways, based on mAtter's own perspective, with the goal of constructing dense space. The members of the project aren't specified, and they switch depending on the various projects. The members mainly consist of musicians, architects, video artists, and writers.
shotahirama is a Sound Artist/novelist from New York, US and currently live in Tokyo, Japan. Inspired by Modern Art, Dada, Bauhaus and Postmodern literature. Also known for the founding of the SIGNAL DADA, Edition NIkO (NIkO Label), ENG (electronoise group) and JANDEATH. His musical focus is characterized by digital synth and field recording with computer software processing and improvisation, which generates a large palette of possible sounds including; grainy textures, complex patterns of smooth drones, and microscopic clicks and cuts.
Shota, as a solo artist or in other project, has released music on the following record labels: Improvised Music From Japan (Japan. BOOK/CD compilation, 2009), Re-Records (Hongkong. CDR album, 2010), mAtter (Japan. BOOK/CDR, BOOK/DVD, coming 2010), Symbolic Interaction (Japan. CD compilation, coming 2010), and more.