Takatsuna Mukai is a Japanese violinist and multi-instrumentalist, composer, renowned for his genre-crossing works in the avant-garde art scenes. Mukai has collaborated with artists ranging all across the worlds of composed and improvised music, theatre, art, and cinema.
His approach to the violin, which derives from the combination of his post-punk roots and his love for Balkan / Oriental music, expressed through various unconventional, extended techniques— pushes the instrument far beyond its traditional boundaries.