Shouichi IWAMOTO mr.
Drummer, percussionist, gamelan player Born in Kobe City in 1981.
Since a high school student,he started performing on the Kansai music scene.
From 2005 to 2008 he got a shcolarship from government of Indonesia to lean gamelan(Indonesian traditional music) at the Yogyakarta Art Institute (ISI) in Indonesia.
In 2008,he began gamelan class in Okayama City Japan. And he has carrying out music workshop in many places also. Since 2014 he has joined Art Link Project in Takamatsu City(a project to create art works in collaboration with welfare work facilities). He has been perfoming with various artists in various places up to now. His performing style is based improvisation,and he plays anything regardless of instruments or non-musical instruments.