Meet Katsura Mouri

We recently connected with Katsura Mouri and have shared our conversation below.

Katsura, thanks so much for taking the time to share your insights and lessons with us today. We’re particularly interested in hearing about how you became such a resilient person. Where do you get your resilience from?
I get my resilience from the music. Both the music I listen to and the music I make. Also when the audience understands my music and gives me energy I return the energy 100 times back.

Appreciate the insights and wisdom. Before we dig deeper and ask you about the skills that matter and more, maybe you can tell our readers about yourself?
I’m a musician who uses a turntable as my instrument. I manipulate the humming sound from the toy turntable from physical manipulation, effects pedals and amplification. I also use circuit bending techniques. I’m so excited when the humming noise I make, which is a low frequency sound, shakes the building. But humming sound and circuit bending are not stable, so it sometimes gives me a headache. It is fun to try and reach the sound goal that I imagine. Most people think of the turntable as a device to play recorded music but I would like to change their perception and create new techniques and new sounds that no one has tried before.

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?
When I was 19, I visited Parallax records for first time with my friend. Then about a couple of months later, I started working there. I learned about many types of music and met many different types of people. I formed the turntable unit BusRatch with 3 other members in 1998. In 2009, we broke up the unit. Since then I have been a solo performer and have encountered so many creative problems. I could solve some of them, but some of them I could not. I’m not the person to give advice to the others, actually I’m looking for advice from others. The only thing I can say to the people on their journey, is keep doing the thing you love.

What do you do when you feel overwhelmed? Any advice or strategies?
When I feel overwhelmed, I sleep and forget what bothers me. When I have slept enough – maybe more than enough, I read books, listen to music, and talk to the people who understand me. After that, I will regain my energy..

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