Rully Shabara

Born in 1982 in Palu, Indonesia, Shabara is interested in exploring the human voice as a medium of creation and language as a subject to experiment with. Shabara is also one half experimental Indonesian duo Senyawa as well as a member of the conceptual punk band Zoo. Shabara has initiated numerous concept-based projects around voice as well as delivered workshops around the globe that focus on using the human voice as a resource to explore primal expression and improvisation. He has also collaborated with many notable international musicians and artists including Keiji Haino, Stephen O`Malley, Otomo Yoshihide, Rabih Beaini, Damo Suzuki, Bob Ostertag, Yoshida Tatsuya, Trevor Dunn, Arrington DeDionyso, Justin Vernon, Jon Sass, DJ Sniff, Daisuke Fuwa and Greg Fox among others. www.rullyshabara.id

Tsutsui is a director, playwright and leader of dracom. He received the Kyoto Art Center Award of Performing Arts in 2007 and was a senior fellow at The Saison Foundation from 2014 to 2016. His work Sokonaizu-Bottomless was selected as one example of innovative Japanese contemporary theatre for the Segal Center Japanese Playwrights Project in 2018. His works outside dracom include Silent Seeing Toyooka (2016, Kinosaki International Arts Center), Seeping Life (2017, Dance Box) and direction for Sons of Destruction (2018, Kyoto University of Art and Design (currently Kyoto University of the Arts). Tsutsui has also participated in works by Zan Yamashita, Marebito-no-Kai, KIKIKIKIKIKI, Ishinha, Toenkai, Yoshiro Hatori, akakilike, Akuma no Shirushi, Ho Tzu Nyen and Araki Masamitsu. He engages in various projects regardless of genre.

Tenniscoats is a band with two members, Saya & Takashi Ueno, founded in 1996. With voices that sound like instruments and acoustic guitars that sound like voices, the band have travelled around the world. Recently they have been involved in Spirit Fest, a Japanese-German-English band, Zayaendo Music, A Compilation of Japanese Indie Music and Nishinari Children’s Orchestra Workshop. They have released many collaborative albums, riding on their collaborators musical base while sublimating into their music. They launched “minnakikeru.com” in 2020.