Yoshio Machida is a Japanese experimental musician, steelpanist, and composer who was born in Saitama, Japan, in 1967. He achieved early professional recognition in 1999 when his debut studio recording Hypernatural was featured in David Toop's article about generative music and is famous for playing improvised music using the steelpan with the computer program Max/MSP and for founding the record label Amorfon. Machida studied minimal art, music, and film at Tama Art University under Kuniharu Akiyama and Sakumi Hagiwara. In 2004, he established the label Amorfon to release experimental music and composed soundtracks for Van Cleef & Arpels exhibitions in 2009. His discography includes the studio recordings Infinite Flowers (2004) and Naada (2006). In 2017, he released the collaborative recording Music from the SYNTHI 100 with Constantin Papageorgiadis. Machida also works as a visual artist, utilizing a photogram technique he calls Photobatik.
