eucademix at the 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 groundbreaking 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, bringing her singular sound world to stages worldwide.