Makoto Kawabata

Makoto Kawabata (Kawabata Makoto, 河端 一) is a Japanese musician and founding member of the band and "soul collective" Acid Mothers Temple, guitarist, performer on numerous traditional instruments, composer, improviser, mixing engineer, producer, speed guru. "Music, for me, is neither something that I create, nor a form of self-expression. All kinds of sounds exist everywhere around us, and my performances solely consist of picking up these sounds, like a radio tuner, and playing them so that people can hear them.