ANIMA SGN | Yukitomo Hamasaki & Anh Phi

The summer is just getting started… and ANIMA SGN returns with a new episode featuring two boundary-pushing artists whose practices move fluidly across sound, image, and space: Yukitomo Hamasaki and Anh Phi.

Yukitomo Hamasaki began his music career at 18, drawing from the language of DJing and an intuitive fascination with light, clouds, complex patterns, and the collisions that emerge in micro-spaces. Since 2009, his work has expanded across multiple formats—spanning sound compositions, installations, and graphic design. In 2008, he founded mAtter, a Tokyo-based label and publishing platform exploring the intersections between sound, visual art, architecture, and design. mAtter brings together a fluid collective of musicians, architects, video artists, photographers, and writers. In 2023, Hamasaki also opened LOWW, a Tokyo gallery presenting contemporary art from both local and international artists.

Anh Phi is an artist working across film and music to explore identity, migration, and interconnectedness. His debut EP Buông (2024) is a percussive, bass-driven work echoing themes of resilience, impermanence, and the complex layers of forced and privileged migration. With morphing textures and tribal undertones, the release moves like a narrative filled with tension and release. A co-founder of the Vietnam-based label and collective Nhạc Gãy, he was a key figure in shaping a new wave of experimental electronic music in the region. His latest short film Thế Giới captures the vibrant maximalism of Saigon’s queer nightlife through a lens that moves between rawness and dream. Born to Vietnamese refugees, Anh Phi grew up in the suburbs of Paris, lived in Saigon and Shanghai, and is currently based in Berlin.

Tune in for an episode that weaves together ambient introspection and rhythmic storytelling—resonating from Tokyo to Saigon, from memory to motion.