Kirsten Carey is a composer, guitarist, shamisen player, and sound editor. She has toured across the USA, Canada, Japan, Europe, and Thailand. Her unique voice has been showcased at the International Society for Improvised Music conference (2014), Edgefest (2018), the Co-Incidence Festival (2018), and Strange Beautiful Music (2023). Her wide-reaching work gained recognition from the Asian Cultural Council (2019) and Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2023), who awarded Carey grants for music research and outreach in Japan. Carey wrote additional music for the hit Netflix Japan drama House of Ninjas, which also features her shamisen playing throughout Jonathan Snipes' main score. She has been commissioned to write compositions for acclaimed musicians such as Chris Sies of Latitude 49 and Boston’s Hinge Ensemble. She scored the award-winning independent film ‘Taken For Granted’ (dir. Manasi Patel) and wrote the current slate of music for The One Piece Podcast, which is ranked among the top five anime podcasts in the world.…Kirsten Carey is a composer, guitarist, shamisen player, and sound editor. She has toured across the USA, Canada, Japan, Europe, and Thailand. Her unique voice has been showcased at the International Society for Improvised Music conference (2014), Edgefest (2018), the Co-Incidence Festival (2018), and Strange Beautiful Music (2023). Her wide-reaching work gained recognition from the Asian Cultural Council (2019) and Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2023), who awarded Carey grants for music research and outreach in Japan. Carey wrote additional music for the hit Netflix Japan drama House of Ninjas, which also features her shamisen playing throughout Jonathan Snipes' main score. She has been commissioned to write compositions for acclaimed musicians such as Chris Sies of Latitude 49 and Boston’s Hinge Ensemble. She scored the award-winning independent film ‘Taken For Granted’ (dir. Manasi Patel) and wrote the current slate of music for The One Piece Podcast, which is ranked among the top five anime podcasts in the world.WWWW…