California-based artist, culture enthusiast, and music industry specialist. Founder of KUU WRLD, a production house working between Japan and the West across music, fieldwork, and editorial. Also founder of Tsunami Sounds, a music production collective. Over the last decade, I've directed 500+ project rollouts, built partnerships across the US, EU, and Japan, and run cultural programs across music and language. Current work includes The Beat League, a monthly program for music producers with 60+ installments since 2018, and Place and Person, a continuing multimedia project on how the patterns of a place shape the people who live there. N3-proficient in Japanese, with a growing interest in psychogeography. Reach me at damon@kuucompany.com.