Artists

Osaka producer 7FO builds small sonic worlds from processed guitar, synthesisers, a sampler and found equipment. His home recordings turn sustained tones and electronic textures into dreamlike scenes. Moment gathers work from 2012–2017, while Music For Himitsu grew from music composed for an exhibition by the Osaka art collective Himitsu.

Audrey Carmes brings poetry and visual art into a music of quiet detail. Drawing on ambient, krautrock and experimental electronics, she layers synthesisers with delicate vocals, spoken word, flute and vibraphone. Her debut, Quelque chose s’est dissipé, approaches composition as a contemplative space for care and renewal.

Photograph: Julia Henderson

Dasom Baek is a composer, improviser and performer working with traditional Korean wind instruments, including daegeum and sogeum. Her music brings their distinctive timbres into contact with electronics, looping and the human voice. Mirror City explores the tensions between solitude and community within the rhythms of urban life.

Early Fern makes densely layered music shaped by memory, place and the natural world. On Perpetual Care, digital piano, bass guitar and clarinet meet field recordings from a rural farm. The album turns recollections of a former home into an expressive study of change, attachment and the healing power of nature.

Composer and multi-instrumentalist Ess Whiteley works across recordings, installations, performances and scores. Mycorrhizal Music draws on ambient, minimalism, experimental electronics and IDM, imagining sound through fungal networks and hidden connections. Its shifting textures invite movement and attentive listening within the rhythms of everyday life.

Florian T M Zeisig makes conceptual electronic music shaped by personal experience, sound and physical sensation. Music For Parents explores low frequencies, slowly moving bass structures and sparse harmonies, inviting listening that is felt as much as heard. He also works with Yo van Lenz as OCA, whose album Aging explores memory and the passing of time.

Georgia is the collaboration of Justin Tripp and Brian Close. Their electronic music combines complex layers, shifting textures and restless arrangements with an organic sense of movement. On Side Tracks, exchanged samples, field recordings and sculpted synthetic sounds form two expansive pieces that unfold into a dense, cinematic sound world.

Gonubie approaches electronic music through a background in fine art, landscape architecture and urban design. A classically trained flautist, she brings an interest in space and place to expansive chords, synthesis and percussion. Signals at Both Ears reflects on home through music that balances rhythmic detail with a sense of openness.

Percussionist and producer Grant Chapman constructs music from intricately layered found sounds. Made with a laptop, headphones and a MIDI sampler, Indentations draws on sources ranging from ASMR to unaccompanied choral singing. These fragments form an intimate, wide-ranging exploration of memory, loss and the search for emotional balance.

Photograph: Lucas Myers

Multi-instrumentalist and producer Katya Yonder makes music that connects intimate songwriting with exploratory electronic production. Her work draws across pop, rap, baroque music and cinematic sound. Following Multiply Intentions, Cure turns towards questions of love, self-understanding and growth, revealing a deeply personal and emotionally layered approach to composition.

Photograph: Sarah

Li Yilei explores memory, time and place through sound and performance. Their compositions bring analogue synthesisers, voice and field recordings into conversation with acoustic, found and handmade instruments. Across 之 / OF and NONAGE, intimate fragments become studies of childhood, displacement and the emotional traces of everyday experience.

Photograph: Cookie

Lucy Sissy Miller is a French/British singer-songwriter, performer and artist. Rooted in folk and Americana, her music combines intimate vocals with collected sounds and layers of Auto-Tune. Pre Country draws from journals, poetry and voice memos, blurring fiction and personal memory in a cinematic exploration of girlhood and desire.

Meitei creates electronic music shaped by the fading memories and atmospheres of Japan. Field recordings, flowing water, textured noise and fragments of melody become small sonic scenes. On Komachi, dedicated to his grandmother, he explores the meeting of past and present, drawing from Japanese art, cinema and everyday life.

OCA is the collaboration between producers Yo van Lenz and Florian T M Zeisig, who met while studying in Berlin. Their music approaches everyday experience with playful sonic introspection. Aging uses the palette of an Alesis QS6 synthesiser to explore memory, emotional touchstones and the passage of time.

Salamanda is the South Korean duo of Uman Therma and Yetsuby. Their playful electronic music brings delicate percussion, interlocking rhythms and misty synthesisers into miniature imaginary worlds. On Sphere, bubbles, floating shapes and distant planets become starting points for a warm, gently shifting collection of tracks.

Takashi Kokubo is a Japanese composer and sound designer known for environmental and ambient music. His practice combines atmospheric synthesisers with immersive field recordings, including sounds captured using a binaural microphone he built himself. Gaiaphilia brings this world into conversation with Yumiko Morioka’s piano, exploring the connections between nature and melody.

Pictured with Yumiko Morioka.

Tetsu Umehara explores the relationship between music, space and everyday surroundings. Drawing on a childhood spent in Düsseldorf and a background in architecture, his work combines guitar, keyboards, percussion and field recordings. Across Handwritten and Ephemeral, quietly unfolding pieces reflect an attentive, personal approach to place and memory.

Photograph: Comuramai

Japanese pianist and composer Yumiko Morioka creates spacious music shaped by improvisation, quiet attention and the resonance between notes. Her 1987 album Resonance found a new audience through Métron’s reissue. On Gaiaphilia, her graceful piano compositions meet Takashi Kokubo’s field recordings and atmospheric synthesisers in a shared exploration of the natural world.