Composer, vocalist and musician, best known for her improv-folk ensemble Ché-SHIZU (PSF). Mukai has been an active improviser since 1975, when she joined the East Bionic Symphonia group under Takehisa Kosugi in Tokyo. She has since collaborated with Keiji Haino, John Duncan, Agata Morio and many others. Her primary instrument is the bowed Chinese er-hu, but she also plays piano and percussion. ... more