Koichi Shimizu

Koichi Shimizu is a Japanese sound artist born in Yamanashi in 1972 and based in Bangkok, working in experimental, electroacoustic and IDM territory with traces of dub, noise and techno. He moved to Bangkok in 1993 after studying sound engineering in New York, released the 12-inch "Hacked" as Hanumand in 2000, and has since scored and sound-designed films for Pen-ek Ratanaruang, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Aditya Assarat. He also runs the SO::ON Dry FLOWER label and opened the SOL art space in 2008, so a show of his tends to sit inside the local underground scene he helped build.