Lain Iwakura is a sound & performance artist, DJ, sound engineer, writer and activist based in Graz. She studied musicology/sociology/philosophy at Goethe University Frankfurt, is currently doing her master’s degree in computer music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and is a scholarship student at The New Centre of Research and Practice. Together with Achim Szepanski, she runs the two music labels ‘Force Inc.’ & ‘mille plateaux’. In Graz she co-founded the collective ‘O’, is part of the ‘institute for sonic welfare’ and in the music team of the Forum Stadtpark, as well as co-founder of the awareness group ‘awaGraz’, and member of the collective ‘CMKK’.