"I don't really think I have any musicianship. I can't play any instruments. I have no technique. I really can't do anything. I have no professional skill at all. I'm also a crap DJ. I'm really not very deft! Really I'm crap . . . and I've been doing it for 10 years!" says Yamataka Eye, leader of the electronically infused drum circle Vooredoms, speaking to The Japan Times recently in New York.
Few would agree with Eye's self-deprecation, but his humility is still one of the reasons why his fans like him. Since his start with the noise band Hanatrash (a shortened version of the Japanese for "snot nosed"), Eye has explored rock music's further reaches. The foundations for such experimentation were set with the first recordings he made at home in Kobe while doing sound tests with a short-wave radio.
The squelching sound of the short wave has often featured in Eye's many musical incarnations.