Born in Tokyo, ANDO is a composer / musician, studied the composition at " La Schola Cantorum " and " Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris ", presently keeps acting in Japan and in France.

FNR Releases: Ochiba 2011

Brandon Clark is an experimental artist creates sounds which ranges from anything to Field Recordings, Ambient, Binary, and Glitch. Binary for Fukushima had been started as one of his projects by having artist from around the world using methods of Binary sounds.

FNR Releases: Binary for Fukushima

FNR Releases: sweetness follows.

Carolyn Fok is an award-winning visual and recording artist whose electronic music has received international acclaim. She is very talented and her performances have been sold out at Guggenheim Museum. She was asked by Toshikatsu to contribute "voice" for his noise machine.

FNR Releases: DEEPVOICE

Dr.Kaolimba is Handmade KAOLIMBA maker located in Shizuoka Pref, Japan. They have been producing original Kalimba (thumb piano) with Japanese musical scale. Also it is patented that Kaolimba can control external aromatic oil. Kaolimba's "Kaoli" means "fragrance" in Japanese expression.

FNR Releases: KAOLIMBA INFINITY.

John has been conducting forms of sound research for over 15 years that include field recording, kinetic sculptures, electro-acoustic composition, performance, group workshops and exercises in listening. currently lives in Estonia working as a coordinator for MoKS, a non-profit artist-run center.

FNR Releases: Ochiba 2011

Luke Munn is a Berlin based artist with a sound and socially focused practice. His work centres around re-activating, and re-presenting sound as itself: site-specific performances and projects that often use the architecture of a space, objects from the audience, field recordings of the area, or historically or socially derived audio. His work has featured in the Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Q-O2 Brussels, Laborsonor Berlin, and others - with performances in Paris, Dublin, Chicago, Berlin, Auckland, and New York.

FNR Releases: Ochiba 2011

Marcus Beuter was born in 1968 in Wuppertal, Germany. Grown up in a small town nearby, he went to Hamburg after finishing school. Civil Service, vocational, social profession followed.After a few years he retreated into nature. Place of living and work is nowadays a wooden hut in a forest.Working hereby on an own archive of field recordings. Since 2001 intensified interest in soundart. In 2003 co-founder of the record label /fragmentrecordings/ with following cd releases. Since 2005 more and more sound installations, sometimes in cooperation with sculptors and visual artists. Since 2008 live-performance of improvised electronic music based on his field recordings.Member of Cooperativa Neue Musik, Trio TATUNTAT and Ensemble Chronomania. Works with Filmmakers and directors.

FNR Releases: Ochiba 2011

Valladolid (Spain). Degree in Economics (University of Valladolid). Master's Degree in Graphic Design (CEI, Madrid). Master in Cultural Management (Carlos III University, Madrid). Workshops in art, illustration and new technologies with Daniel Canogar, Robert Cahen, Jaime del Val, Saverio Evangelista and Jutta Bauer. Currently working on a series of digital painting, in sound generation from images and the production of an interactive sound installation. Recent works exhibited at: Off Limits (Madrid), Espacio Menosuno (Madrid), Instituto Cervantes (Madrid), Fonoteca Nacional de Mexico (Mexico's National Sound Archive, Mexico DF), Centro Cultural de Espana en Mexico (Mexico DF).

FNR Releases: Ochiba 2011

Noise Lake creates ecosystems of sound. Field recordist and composer Daniel Feuerriegel puts together sounds snatched from life into noise landscapes that resound off of one's experience to create aural stories unique to the listener's perception.

FNR Releases: Ochiba 2011

*Pablo Sanz Almoguera *(ES/NL) is an interdisciplinary explorer fascinated by listening and the phenomenon of sound. He has made forays into photography, djing, sound creation, live video and has collaborated in a number of editorial and curatorial initiatives, being also a co-editor of the aural cultures blog Mediateletipos.net. Lately his interests focus on the relationships between sound, space and perception, the notion of soundscape and the practice of phonography. Since 2007 he lives in the Netherlands, where he has been following studies at the ArtScience Interfaculty and the Institute of Sonology at the Royal Academy of Art and the Royal Conservatory in The Hague.

FNR Releases: Ochiba 2011

He lives and works in London (UK) and compose electronic music. His compositions often involve dense atmospheres and hidden, distant or floating melodies. He also likes to incorporate field recordings either in their raw form or processed beyond recognition.

FNR Releases: The Endless Seasons

Ru: Ri: Ro is not an artist but a name of project creating experimental ambient pieces based on or for the experience of ritual. Anyone can be a Ru: Ri: Ro, creating experimental ambient for ritual, so we are supporting this project. For more information visit official page.

FNR Releases: SCD02, Out of Inside, The Emperor.

Experimental artistic/performance group SALA from Lithuania exists for more than 15 years. We have released a number of albums, made a number of live performances - always on the edge of experiments with ourselves and sounds around us; musically varying from deep listening to unnerving noise or even acoustic stuff. In many cases we use fieldrecordings - "as they are" or cut-up'd, sampled, processed.

FNR Releases: Ochiba 2011

Sean ONeill works with textural elements of field recordings, environmental/urban impressions and found sounds. He is interested in the acoustic perceptions of structural spaces and natural ambience.

FNR Releases: Ochiba 2011

He has been developing a method of "Ototama" by using electronic devices. Ototama is a style of ancient Japanese animism which was meditation by listening to the sonic. He believes sound is not religious at all, but it must be a sort of ritual. He is also known as Sansei Toshikatsu traditional lacquer craftsman releasing Gandhara noise machines.

FNR Releases: Ochiba 2011, DISCERN, DISCERN 2, some Ru:Ri:Ro's albums, Gandhara mini

Stan Pete - Music - since 1999 Live Techno - since 2006 improvised music - since 2008 Vodoo Toys (modified electronic toys) - since 2009 member of the Ensemble freie Musik (improvised music) (Bielefeld). Steel - since 1996 - exhibitions in Germany, England, Latvia. Video - since 2001 - founder of Metropolis-TV Start 06.09.02 Stan Pete Exhibitions - since 2009 project-oriented exhibitions

FNR Releases: Ochiba 2011

The tt-vox project started in 2006. The picture, poetry, and the sound are chiefly produced and it opens it to the public on the Internet.

FNR Releases: Ochiba 2011

With field recordings as the principal element, vernier 1418 aims to capture the moment and tell stories with everyday sounds, sometimes with a pure musical landscape, other times with a more experimental approach. Incorporating glitch rhythms to source material, a contemporary and artistic soundtrack of the real world is created.

FNR Releases: Ochiba 2011

Wilhelm Matthies, based in Kenosha, Wisconsin, focuses on developing home made instruments blending ideas from various world instruments. The purpose is to open performance possibilities that tap into such histories yet reveal the newness of the instrument and the new performance situation. He is, at the same time, developing compositional strategies that both accommodate the non-standard tuning, sonic qualities and playing characteristics of these instruments but also allow other players to participate with the musical intent using relatively standard instruments. The composed improvisations feature cyclical variations. This compositional strategy thus allows the music to be written, performed, edited and listened to on many metaphoric levels, but always dealing with aspects of the theme of eternal return or impermanence.

FNR Releases: RiverFoot-RealityRubs