When I first saw her DJing I was very impressed by her alienated appearance and her incredible sounds. She was mixing bass and vocal driven tracks I had never heard before with bits of abstract contemporary music and piano classical clusters. In the weeks after, I had the chance to see various other performances by Mieko Suzuki. I tried to listen from a neutral position but she always managed to make me feel a drastic boost of quality and intensity compared to any other act playing before or after her: with her special combination of sounds and music she was just blowing peoples' minds.
Later we found out that the interest in each others' work was bi-directional and we became friendly co-workers and decided to take some common artistic steps. In various further observations & discussions I learned that she is taking the DJ work very seriously, she is preparing her sets precisely and seems to be extremely sensitive for audience reactions constantly aware of that 'feedback loop' which turned DJs into early pioneers of interactive art . Both of us are not taking care too much about the classical 'art' term not looking for the latest trends in the 'official art world' but searching for the 'hot shit' which is clever and moving our minds, souls and bodies. Mieko Suzuki tends to describe her DJ performance as sound installations or sound scapes. This is not always easy to understand and of course not always matches the expectations of a disco crowd... How could they know, seen that most DJs around are just entertainers ... Her strong vision of her own work and the special way she selects and respects music urges me to find a new term for this kind activity: I propose ARTC = Audio Real Time Curator. or RTAC = Real Time Audio Curator. Which one do you like best?

In MNM we feature Mieko Suzuki's unpretentious but enchanting gestures, we visit her in her unique virtual mind-sound-laboratory and provide a platform for a headstrong musical performance.The NMN turn-table interface offers basic scratching functions and more. That double effect = a DJ at work being spinned by the audience of course has a special charm & deepness and is an exaggeration ...not leaving out some irony.