Ryoko Akama is a sound artist/composer/performer who approaches listening situations that magnify silence, time and space. Her work aims to offer quiet temporal/spatial experiences, and is connected to literature, fine art and mixed media (technology). She employ small and fragile objects such as paper balloons and glass bottles in order to create tiny aural and visual occurrences that embody ‘almost nothing’ aesthetics. She compose text scores and perform a diversity of alternative scores in collaboration with international artists.

She runs melange edition, co-curate ame and co-edit an independent publisher mumei publishing.