Born in Tokyo and trained at Tokyo University of the Arts, Midori Takada is a composer and multi-percussionist at the heart of the 1980s Japanese experimental avant-garde. Her hypnotic, minimalist music - rooted in the coherence between sound and the human body - stands as one of its era's most enduring achievements.

Born in Tokyo and trained at Tokyo University of the Arts, Midori Takada is a composer and multi-percussionist at the heart of the 1980s Japanese experimental avant-garde. Her hypnotic, minimalist music - rooted in the coherence between sound and the human body - stands as one of its era's most enduring achievements.