Yoshio Machida

Born in Japan in 1967 and currently based in Tokyo, Yoshio Machida describes himself as a trans-boundary sound and visual artist. He studied music and minimalist and cinematic arts at the Tama Art University, where his mentors were Kuniharu Akiyama, Sakumi Hagiwara, Kishio Suga, and Yoshiaki Touno. Beginning in 1988 he spent 16 years traveling extensively throughout the world making field recordings, many of which would subsequently appear in his electro-acoustic recordings. During the '90s he expanded his visual collage techniques into what he called photobatik while engaging...