Acousmo: SUGAI KEN // Flora Yin-Wong

SUGAI KEN
A producer who gimmickily electrifies various domestic folklore around a unique style reminiscent of the Japanese night. He also specializes in reproducing insect and bird sounds using only electronic sounds.
His 2017 work “UkabazUmorezU” received international acclaim (Pitchfork, etc.).
His work on one of Japan’s best labels, EM Records, “Garden in the Night (An Electronic Re-creation),” has brought him recognition from core listeners around the world, and a track from the album was featured on Fabriclive (UK).
His music is played frequently on web radio around the world, including Disclosure’s Boiler Room DJ set in 2020, and he also provided a curious DJ mix for the Solid Steel (Ninjatune) series that wowed Rob BOOTH.
In the 2018 EU tour, he performed at Cafe OTO (UK), which was sold out, showing the high level of attention he received, and he performed 13 shows (in 6 countries), demonstrating his uniqueness without compromise. The following year, he toured the EU, starting in Berghain, and performed 9 shows in 7 countries, including a 2-man show with Tim HECKER.
He currently has several releases in the pipeline due to numerous domestic and international requests.
In addition to his personal activities, he is also involved in several local performing arts archive projects in Japan, and is also involved in sound design for Soka Health Center (a typical Japanese sauna) and POLA (a major Japanese cosmetics manufacturer) and so on.
His striking artist photograph is those in which he has aged himself following the “Yatsushi” aesthetic, which he considers an essential element of Japanese deep culture.
His work was exhibited at the Expo2025 Osaka.
He is currently working on a collaboration with Jan Jelinek, a meister of electronic music from Berlin…

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https://linktr.ee/SUGAIKEN

Flora Yin-Wong

Flora Yin-Wong is a sound artist from London who uses rudimentary field recordings, granular synthesis, and traditional instruments, underpinned by influences from club culture. Through these disparate elements, her work channels her interest in philosophical and psychological themes such as faith, obsession, and ritual. Her first two albums ‘Holy Palm’ and ‘Cold Reading’ were released on Modern Love, and she has appeared on labels PAN, Tectonic, Paralaxe Editions, Nyege Nyege, and Shelter Press / GRM Paris. She has been commissioned by and presented live at international galleries like Palais de Tokyo, MACRO Roma, Fondation Beyeler Basel, Triennale Milano, Somerset House, The V&A Museum and Cafe OTO London, ISSUE Project Room New York, Volksbuhne Theatre Berlin, and Spielhaus and SHEDHAlle Zurich. Her debut book ‘Liturgy’ – an experimental novel interweaving fiction, non-fiction and everything in between – was released in 2020 by Primary Information NYC. She has since published writing with Ignota Books and Zweikommasieben’s V/A series, and was previously digital editor at DAZED Media. In 2023 she launched a label and publishing house, Doyenne, releasing works from the likes of Alex Zhang Hungtai, Claire Rousay, YL Hooi, Teresa Winter, writers Heather McCalden, Mira Mattar, and Lisa Lerkenfeldt and more.