DJ Anakonda (Yumi Hara Cawkwell) studied medicine in Japan after which she moved to the UK and graduated in music from the City University in London with a first-class honours degree. Since 2001, she has been playing as a drum’n’bass DJ at Femi-9 (Public Life, Net Bar), Tokyo Mania (333) and Phat Bitch (The Dungeons), also as an experimental/abstract/chill DJ at Japanese Invasion (291), Media Lounge (Turnmills) and The Sound Source (Cargo). As a composer/performer, She has received a number of awards including a prize in the Continuum Ensemble Improvisation Competition, Sculpted Sound competition and the British Medical Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology Fanfare Competition to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA. Her music has been performed by, among others, Piano Circus, Ensemble Bash, the Paragon Ensemble, CHROMA, Trio Japan and OKEANOS in concerts and festivals in the UK and Japan. She has led voice improvisation workshops for the Yokohama Boys and Girls Chorus at the ISCM World Music Days in 2001, taught music production to young offenders at the Islington Youth Offending Centre and recently gave a paper on The Oral Traditions of Japanese Blind Mediums at the University of Sorbonne in Paris. She appeared in David Toop’s CD “Pink Noir” (Virgin, AMBT18) as lead vocal. She regularly gives improvised performances as a solo vocalist (with electronics), and since 1996, has been a member of the performance-art girlband Frank Chickens. Recently she has completed her PhD in composition at City University under Rhian Samuel. Her track Soran has been released in “Shenanigans” compilation from a French label La Mue. She is Lecturer in Music at the University of East London.
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