Kohei Matsunaga

Osaka-born electronic musician and illustrator. He has been making music since the early 1990s, working across noise, microsound, ambient, glitch, and abstract hip-hop. His international debut Upside Down appeared on Mille Plateaux in 1998, and subsequent releases came out on Raster-Noton, Skam, Wordsound, and Important Records. He operates under several aliases, most notably NHK and Koyxen. In 2006 he formed the duo NHK with Toshio Munehiro, and his collaborators include Merzbow, Asmus Tietchens, Rashad Becker, and Autechre's Sean Booth.