Takako Minekawa

Born in 1969. From around 1990, she became interested in music. She released eight albums in Japan and the US, including "Roomic Cube - a tiny room exhibition" (1996), "Cloudy Cloud Calculator" (1997), "Fun 9" (1998), and "Maxi On" (2000), in collaboration with musicians. In 2013, she released "Toropical Circle" with American Experimental musician Dustin Wong on Thrill Jockey. As a duo, they released three albums, "Savage Imagination" (2014) and "Are Euphoria" (2017), and after spending about two years in the experimental music and arts community in Los Angeles from 2018. After returning to Japan, in recent years they have been performing improvisations with legendary/emerging Japanese musicians such as Keiji Haino and Fumi Endo. Since 2023, she has also been active as a performance group 'Ato no Mae (Before a trace)' with Takahiro Kawaguchi, a musician who creates his own instruments. She presents sound images that are like fragments of stories as landscapes that are neither music/theater, explores soundscapes. This spring, they participated in the Archipel Festival (Geneva, Switzerland), Jauna Muzika (Vilnius, Lithuania), and the Oscillation Festival (Brussels, Belgium). The latest solo release is the LP "traces of the ceiling" (tone poem), issued in June 2025. This album features special artwork by the Japanese painter Ippei Matsui.