eucademix (Yuka Honda) with Nels Cline (solo)

eucademix (Yuka Honda) with Nels Cline (solo)
Bearsville Theater Lounge

Yuka Honda (eucademix) is a composer, producer, and sonic innovator whose work defies genre and convention. Co-founder of the trailblazing duo Cibo Matto, she has since forged a solo path that blends electronic experimentation, improvisational depth, infectious rhythm, and abstract storytelling. She describes her music as quantum, continuum, and sensory — a fluid exploration of sound as both narrative and experience. Like a book or a film, her compositions invite the listener into a story: shifting through contrasting emotions, spaces, and textures to create an unfolding journey.

Honda began her musical path with classical piano lessons. Although she wasn’t drawn to much of the repertoire, she found lasting value in the ear training that remains one of her greatest assets today. After moving to New York City in the late 1980s, she was working as a food writer when she discovered the emerging world of digital instruments. Like many electronic musicians of her generation, she began composing in her bedroom, exploring not only chords and melodies but also the vast expressive possibilities of sonic manipulation. Her work was shaped by the sound of hip hop—where sampling, layering, and cross-genre collage redefined music—as well as by experimental production, microtonal detail, and the interplay between digital and live instrumentation.

In 1993 she met Miho Hatori, whose pop vocal sensibility fused with Honda’s experimental approach to form the duo Cibo Matto, releasing two acclaimed albums on Warner Brothers Records. Though the band was short-lived, Honda continued to expand her vision, and today performs her work as a solo artist under the name eucademix.

Collaborations include:
- Yoko Ono
- Sean Lennon
- Nels Cline
- Photay
- Jason Lindner (Black Star)
- Dave Harrington (Darkside)
- L’Rain
- Martha Wainwright

Her recent projects span multimedia opera, museum performance, and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Current highlights include Respira, a duo with Butoh dancer Azumi O E premiering at ISSUE Project Room, and her score for Karon Davis’s "Resurrection of Osiris" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Living in upstate New York, Honda draws inspiration from radical farming movements and her deep engagement with community, merging art, ecology, and philosophy into a singular sonic vision. She is a board member of the Catskills Agrarian Alliance. Her recent works, Farm Psychedelia I and Farm Psychedelia II, honor the radical farmers of upstate New York who are innovating solutions to food insecurity.

All Ages, Under 18 accompanied

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