I’m Benjamin, a Japanese born, UK based writer, composer and musical director. I’ve written and produced music for movies including The Shallows with Blake Lively and TV shows such as The View. I’ve created and choreographed pieces for Germany’s Next Top Model with Heidi Klum and created original compositions for brands such as Victoria’s Secret, and Avon with Yasmin Le Bon. Elsewhere my compositions and productions have been featured on a number of TV shows such as Love Island USA and movies including Rough Night with Scarlett Johansson. 

As a producer and remixer I’ve worked with and for artists such as Max Richter, Ellie Goulding, LeAnn Rimes and Kylie Minogue. In a previous life I was a DJ and music journalist, spending five years as the Managing Editor of Yahoo! Music UK, creating original content with artists including Calvin Harris and Lily Allen.

As a Musical Director I’ve recently completed a forthcoming movie called Corazon City, set in the city of San Antonio, Texas, working with a diverse range of musicians and creators from the electronic, Latino and urban community.

Outside of music I’m a former fellow of the Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg where I built prototypes and concepts for exhibitions and installations. I’ve also worked in the third sector on a range of issues including social mobility, the gender gap and BAME representation. I studied at The University of Westminster in London, completing a Masters Degree in Music Business Management.

I love the push and pull of collaboration and seeing a creative work take shape. My approach is based around listening to my co-creators and giving them space so the work can develop spontaneously. I love the unexpected, unplanned turns a work can take, nurturing it as it gains a momentum and energy of its own. In the words of the playwright Alan Bennett: 

“You don’t put yourself into what you write, you find yourself there.”

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“Extending reflections to something futuristic, almost post-human”, Ladonna Rama produces campy techno and perverted pop. Her self-titled electronic debut from 2014 "embodies the avant pop of a pint-sized singing budgie on the edge of acceptability". Described as “music to wiggle the ding dongs”, Ladonna’s second album “Unzip the Chick” appeared in 2016 with remixes by UK producer Hectic and Sydney DJ Matt Vaughan for house track “I’m on a Mission”, and dom anthem fan fave “I’ll Require Your Full Attention". Early 2020 sees Ladonna on the verge of her third album release inspired by Tokyo. Sci-fi house number "Zentai Suit" spearheads the release with a video shot on a wet and lonely night in the back streets of a west Tokyo suburb.

​Teetering between the performance art and queer club scenes, she’s supported Peaches, Christeene, the Blessed Madonna and Chicks on Speed. She’s collaborated with Glitta Militia, The Hoopaholics, Motel Sisters, Gang of She, the Naked Barber, Ben Drayton, Yiorgos Zafiriou, Aaron Manhattan and Bunny Hoop Star.

​Major festivals/parties both in her native Australia and overseas include The Mardi Gras Party, Sleaze Ball, Vivid Sydney, Secret Garden, The Broken Heel Festival, cLUB bENT, Heaps Gay, Monsta Gras, Loose Ends, Club Kooky, the House of Mince, Bad Dog, Velvet Hammer, Lovecult 2000, Dept H Tokyo and Doodz Brooklyn. She appears at other venues such as Sydney Opera House, Tokyo Sing Song, Oxford Art Factory, The Oxford Hotel, The Imperial Hotel, Home Nightclub, Carriageworks, The Red Rattler, MCA Art Bar, Artspace, AGNSW and Art Sydney.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong. - Warren Buffett,

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