Eucademix (Yuka Honda)

Saturday, April 19th at 8pm, ISSUE Project Room and AvanTokyo proudly present the world premiere of Respira, a groundbreaking collaboration between pioneering electronic musician Eucademix (a.k.a. Yuka Honda) and Butoh dancer azumi O E. The performance will take place at ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Pl. theater in Brooklyn. 

The evening begins with a solo set by Eucademix, showcasing Honda’s signature approach to sound—navigating unpredictable musical landscapes with fluidity. “I draw on an extensive library of sound palettes from countless genres, improvising transitions that feel natural yet surprising,” Honda explains. This methodology traces back to her experience performing John Zorn’s Cobra in the mid-’90s, where musicians responded to cues like “EYES” or “cartoon trades,” producing sounds in rapid, unexpected succession—like flipping TV channels. This concept also shaped her genre-blurring compositions for Cibo Matto’s Viva! La Woman. 

Experience this evocative premiere—where sound, movement, and elemental forces converge.

Yuka Honda is an electronics instrumentalist, composer, and producer (though she enjoys calling herself a “decomposer”). She often performs solo electronic music as EUCADEMIX. She calls her music “Sensory Music.” Yuka is primarily known for founding the band Cibo Matto in the 1990s. They released two LPs and one EP on Warner Brothers Records. As a producer, she has produced albums by Sean Lennon and Martha Wainwright, among others. Recently, Yuka created a multi-media opera titled “No Revenge Necessary,” which tells the story of a post-apocalypse world in which humans survive and coexist with A.I. entities. It was performed at National Sawdust (Brooklyn, NY) in 2019, where Yuka was an Artist In Residence. She has won multiple awards including the London International Animation Festival’s Best Sound Awards for the music she composed for the animation film “Anxious Body” by Yoriko Mizushiri, which premiered at Cannes 2021 Director’s Fortnight. Other current projects include a duo with her husband Nels Cline (Wilco) called CUP, and also a duo with YoshimiO (Boredoms, OOIOO) called Mycorrhiza.