ASTRO is Hiroshi Hasegawa's solo project. 
He was in the band named C.C.C.C. which was one of the biggest Japanese noise group. 
Born in 1963, Hasegawa has begun his improvisation with his voice and drums. And in 1989, he made the group C.C.C.C. which's concept was impovisative mass-noise with very loud sound. The group became legend with the members Mayuko Hino, Ryuichi Nagakubo, Fumio Kosakai. Also he has begun his solo unit ASTRO with analog synthesizers in 1993 as well as playing in C.C.C.C. and then he formed Cosmic Coincidence as new C.C.C.C. in 2010 with the members Manuel Knapp and Rohco. Now he is actively playing and issuing and doing many collaboration with other artists. And there are released works beyond 50 titles. 
His playing style is like drifting between the meditation and awakening state with electronics and still he is pursuing it. 

www2.odn.ne.jp/astro 

07 ASTRO

Notes on broadcasting: 
A light catcher 

"It's a nocturnal soundscape in term of light. I'll play sounds of light, which is captured with solar cell pickup. I'll mix pre recorded sounds of urban night time lights with live sounds by modulated light both electrically (pulse width modulated) and physically (with a fan spining in changing speed, lenses and mirrors, different bulbs and fluencent lights)" 

Jiyeon Kim started her career as media art project producer, then she moved to the soundmaker/musician field. She mainly uses field recordings with sounds made with handmade analogue sound devices and acoustic objects as her source. Currently she experiments on resonating different materials in various methods with diy microphones, pickups, amplifiers, analogue oscillators, which leads her to develop unconventional ways of field recording. 

teum11.com 
soundcloud.com/teum11

08 Ji - Yeon Kim

An experimental project that sounds with the essence of Costa Rican noise. Our music evokes the rainforest and it is inspired by the fauna of our region. It is a fusion of rock noise and free jazz. Recently we've been working on a new show called Frutilla Tropica,l which means wild tropical fruit. The band is formed by Rolando López (drums), Daniel Ortuño (guitar) Travis Johns (electronics). Fernando Arce (synthesizer) and Jose Duarte (bass). 

The concert has been prepared exclusively for Stazione di Topolò and produced by Extremos Sonoros. This project organizes concerts in the Central Valley circuit and it was funded in 2010. It will be a two hour event with the participation of several other artists who are joining the cause of the TB day. The event takes place in Amón Solar, el Sótano in San José.

09 Tepescuintle

Moki Mcfly is a music producer from Manila, Philippines. He is known for his atmospheric instrumental production which incorporates sound elements from nature and extensive use of dug-up recordings and tagalog samples. His fondness for acoustic sounds pushes his music to come over as unusually nocturnal and warm. Space and texture remain not just formidable, but remarkably relevant aking inspiration from jazz, folk, and experimental as well as the whole canon of electronic music. He has been regarded as ambient, trip hop, some combination of the two, and experimental. Moki Mcfly prefers to exercise an ideological distance from the genres he usually falls into, while maintaining an organic appreciation for all music forms and styles. His sound is a cross-pollination of the arcane and the futuristic, where he guides you through his train of thought, displacement and discourse. A swank noise of clever phrases, poetic flashcards and split references, even if they're essentially about nothing in particular where narration is unspoken. 

Thanks to Mahorka 

soundcloud.com/ikalopa

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