TAKATSUNA MUKAI

Takatsuna is a composer, musician and sound artist, working with a wide variety of musical forms and instruments.

He has been involved with Luna Nera from the beginning, and has performed live in Luna Nera projects, as well as designing the sound for Luna Nera video work and exhibitions.

Taksatsuna Mukai CV

----------------As Composer/Producer/Performer--------------------

-2007-
Dunja Zupancic / Miha Turšic / Dragan Živadinov 'Spojni Protokoli / LE::EL'
--KIBELA, Maribor, Slovenia (Electric Violin Soundscape)

'GAGARIN+' Theatre / Music Performance
with Oleg Yanishevskiy / Luciana Bocchino
--'Transart 2007' Lamparna, Labin, Istria

Dragan Živadinov / Metodij Zlatanov 'Metoda H - Obrnjeni E'
--'Dnevi Poezije in Vina', Medana, Goriška Brda, Slovenia (Electric Violin Soundscape)

Dragan Živadinov 'Obrnjeni E' (text: Metodij Zlatanov)
--'Inervacije' Galerija Waldinger, Barutana, Osijek Croatia (Electric Violin Soundscape)

-2006-
Dragan Živadinov / CIANT 'Syntapiens::Avatars::Umbot'
-Alte Lederfabrik, Köln, Germany (Prepared Guitar Improvisation)

Dragan Živadinov 'A:S:U::8'
--Lamparna, Labin, Istria (Prepared Guitar Improvisation)

Nataša Stanic / Erika Cuk 'Blizu Rudnika'
--Birthhouse of Giuseppina Martinuzzi, Labin, Istria (Composition / Found Objects)

Evi Vine Band (at Cambridge Secret Garden Festival)
--Guitar / Soundscape

Devotion
--Violin / Sounds

-2002-Present-
Gobsausage
--With London fashion label Charles of London. Recent performances include;
Glastonbury Festival (2004 & 2005)
Club 8 Amsterdam (Holland)
Théâtre Aghja, Ajaccio (Corsica)
Zoobar, Rome (Italy)
Tracks are currently licensed to Channel4 Television and Boosey & Hawkes Publishing, also available through iTunes Music Store and DaDaDisc Berlin.

-2003-2005-
Ten Minutes With My Dad (Rough Trade Records / Label Catastrophic)

-2004(pre-production)-
Noblesse Oblige (Horseglue Records)

-1998-2003-
Lisa Skarell / Roosterfish / ARMukai

-1997-
La-la - (Folie a Deux pt.3) (with The Tiger Lillies)

-1993-1996-
Machine Intelligence project
--With poet Tim Turnbull

As Sound Designer

-2001-
Dolly (by Maria Bergman) at Royal College of Surgeons
Edinburgh Fringe Festival

---------------------As Multimedia Artist / Performer--------------------

-1995-1997-
Malcolm Poynter / H.P.R.C.
(sound design / generation, video, stage performance)

-----------------------As Writer--------------------

-2007-
GAGARIN+
--Multimedia Thertre Script

-2005-(work in progress)-
The Cutthroats
--Multimedia Theatre Script

-2004-
Ten Minutes With My Dad ‘Trailer’ (dir.Guy Nisbett)
--Short film

-2003-
Gobsausage ‘Spray Girl Calling’ (dir.Benjamin Allen)
--Music Video

Graphics

-The Gobsausage Website
-SLASK art / music event publicity material

-------------------As Actor----------------------
-2007-
Night Train (dir. Brian King / Film Tiger / Rifkin Eberts LLC)

-2005-
Footballers Wives
The IT Crowd (Graham Linehan / Talkback Thames)
Blue Peter (Alex Leger / BBC)

-2004-2005-
Nathan Barley (Chris Morris / Talkback Thames)
The Basil Brush Show (Dez McCarthy / BBC)

-2003-
Mama San (Ben Gregor / Godman Films)

-2001-
Manchild (David Evans / BBC)

-2000-
The Monkey King (Peter Mcdonald / Hallmark Entertainment)
Murphy’s Law (John Strickland / BBC)

-1999-
The Criminal (Julian Simpson)