ACC grantee Aki Onda, an artist and composer based in New York, is currently in Manila on his ACC Fellowship. Aki Onda is particularly known for what he describes as “Cassette Memories” — works compiled from a “sound diary” of field-recordings collected by using a Walkman over a span of a quarter-century. His work takes on the forms of composition, performance, and the visual and has been presented in a variety of spaces and programs including MoMA, The Kitchen, documenta 14, Pompidou Center, The Louve, Palais de Tokyo, Bozar, and many others. Onda has frequently collaborated with filmmakers, visual artists, and choreographers, including Ken Jacobs, Michael Snow, Raha Raissnia, Akio Suzuki, and Takao Kawaguchi.