Sugai Ken

Sugai Ken is a Japanese sound artist who grew up in Kanagawa Prefecture, just outside Tokyo. He builds electroacoustic pieces from his own recordings of birds, water and insects, set against fragments of synthesizer and percussion drawn from street festivals and court music. His work draws on Japanese folklore and regional performing arts, and he became known abroad with UkabazUmorezU (RVNG Intl., 2017). Sugai Ken started out sampling as the DJ of a rap project formed with school friends.