Laonikos (he/him) is a composer and shakuhachi player based in London, fascinated by the space between controlled and uncontrolled sound, human and more-than-human.

His album ‘loess’ was released in October 2022 by the Netherlands-based Slow Tone Collages, a collection of long, slow improvisations on shakuhachi and live electronics on the banks of River Lea. Laonikos is a trained wilderness guide and in his music he explores the relationship between ourselves and the more-than-human: how do we rediscover our place in the larger scheme of things in a way that blends in, that relates creatively and playfully to the world around us? He is a Making Tracks 2020 Fellow and was awarded a DYCP Grant by Arts Council in 2022. He has performed at the Barbican Centre, Kings Place, Sarawak Parliament (Malaysia) and Helsinki City Centre (Finland), and has appeared on BBC3 ‘Hear and now’ and on Resonance FM. He runs a small workshop repairing shakuhachi and works as an accredited professional coach.