Yasuhiro Morinaga
| Yasuhiro Morinaga | |
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| Background information | |
| Native name | 森永 泰弘 |
| Born | August 1, 1980 |
| Occupation(s) | Sound designer, composer of Musique concrète |
| Years active | 2007-present |
| Website | Official website |
Yasuhiro Morinaga (森永 泰弘 Morinaga Yasuhiro, born August 1, 1980 in Tokyo) is a sound designer, music director and the sound archivist.
Overview
Yasuhiro Morinaga conducts field-recording documenting rituals, religious chants and the sonic environment around the world. Through the use of recording materials, he creates music for dance, film and the installation. Currently he is engaged in field-recording around the rural places of Southeast Asia.
Morinaga has been served as an artistic director for the ethnographic media production and publishing company, CONCRETE.
Interdisciplinary Performance
- Invisible Cities (2011):-Tempo Reale Italy
- Anabiosis Passage (2014):-Gedung Kesenian Jakarta Music Festival 2014
- A Widow in Batavia (2015):-JazzTreffen 2015, Goethe Institut Tokyo
- Message from a Medicine Man (2016):- Esplanade - Theater on the Bay, Singapore
Selected installation
- A Ripe Volcano (2010, with Taiki Sakpisit/Thailand)
- Heaven Hell (2010, with Chris Chong Chan Fui/Malaysia) 35th Toronto International Film Festival
- Sony contemplating Monolithic Design (2010/Japan) Milano Salone (Salone Internazionale del Mobile) Italy
- Cloud of Unknowing (2011, with Ho Tzu Nyen/Singapore) 54th Venice Biennale (Singapore Pavilion)
- INTERFERENZE 2015 (2015, MAXXI Rome, Italy)
- Aomori EARTH2015 (2015, Aomori Museum of Art Aomori, Japan)
- Invisible Ensemble (2016, SPIRAL Tokyo)
- Trading Garden (2016, Sound&City, Ark Hills Roppongi)
- Aomori EARTH2016 (collaboration with Dot Architects) (2016, Aomori Museum of Art Aomori, Japan)
Selected filmography
- A Bao A Qu(2007, Dir: Naoki Kato) Pusan International Film Festival (New Currents Section)
- Block B (2008, Dir: Chris Chong Chan Fui) Rotterdam International Film Festival (Tiger Award Competitions for Short program)
- Karaoke (2009, Dir: Chris Chong Chan Fui) Cannes International Film Festival (Directors' Fortnight)
- Earth (2009, Dir: Ho Tzu Nyen) Venice International Film Festival (Corto Cortissimo Section)
- A Lonely Planet (2010, Dir: Takefumi Tsutsui)
- A Boy inside the Boy (2011, Dir: Saburo Teshigawara)
- Guilty of Romance (2011, Dir: Sion Sono) Cannes International Film Festival (Directors Fortnight)
- The One (2013, Dir: Ichiro Yamamoto)
- 9/5 (2014, Omnibus Films with Japan, Thailand, Singapore and China) Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards
- Uzu (2015, Dir: Gaspard Kuentz)
- Discovery of the Film - Documentary film about Japanese experimental film-maker, Toshio matsumoto (2015, Dir: Takefumi Tsutsui)
Selected performing Arts
- To belong -dialogue- (2012, with Akiko Kitamura/Japan&Indonesia)
- Male and has a straight antenna (2013, with Mandeep Reikhy/India)
- To belong -cyclonicdream- (2013, with Akiko Kitamura/Japan&Indonesia)
- UTÉRUS (2014, Foofwa D'Imobilité/Swiss)
- 10000 Tigers (2014, with Ho Tzu Nyen/Singapore) Wiener Festwochen
- Decimal Points 0 (2014, with Andy Lim/Singapore)
- SHELL (2014, with Kana Ote/Japan)
- To belong -Suwung- (2014, with Akiko Kitamura/Japan&Indonesia)
- Route1 (2015, with Akiko Kitamura/Japan)
- Queen-Size (2016, with Mandeep Raikhy/India)
Discography(Archival albums)
- Archival Sound Series - Ludwig Karl Koch (2010)
- Archival Sound Series - José Maceda (2015)
Discography(Field Recording Series)
- Field Recording Series - Endah Laras [Surakarta, Indonesia] (2013)
- Field Recording Series - Slamet Gundono [Surakarta, Indonesia] (2014)
- Field Recording Series - He Xiu Dong(Dongba Shaman) [Yunnan, China] (2015)
Discography(Others)
- Abstracks Cassette (2011, Edit by Rainier Lericolais)
- Japanese Girls at the Harbor (2012, with Roberto Paci Dalò)
- 'Sceneries from the Castellated Wall (2012)
- To Belong-Soundtrack for the Contemporary Dance (2015)
Workshops/Events/Lectures
- Workshop/Symposium: Tokyo University of the Arts, 2009 Tokyo Japan
- Workshop: Aoyama Gakuin University, 2010 Tokyo Japan
- Workshop: Shinshu University, 2012 Nagano Japan
- Workshop: Suona Bane, 2012 Benevento Italy
- Workshop: Naples Academy of Fine Arts, 2013 Naples Italy
- Workshop: University of Naples "L'Orientale, 2013 Naples Italy
- Workshop: Chino Cultural Complex, 2013 Naples Italy
- Workshop: Gati Dance Forum, 2013 New Delhi India
- Workshop: The Chinese University of HK, 2014 Hong Kong China
- Lecture: Tokyo Polytechnic University, 2015 Tokyo Japan
- Workshop: Aomori Museum of Art 2015
- Event: Miyakojima Collective 2015 - Ensembles Asia Orchestra [Japan Foundation Asia Center]
- Event: Sound&City - Roppongi Ark Hills
- Workshop: Hanoi Collective Orchestra 2016 - Ensembles Asia Orchestra [Japan Foundation Asia Center]
- Event: The Last Speakers - with Keiji Haino and Keichi Tahara [GINZA Music Bar]
References
External links
- Official website
- Bits Lounge (Toronto Web Informational magazine), Interview
- A Lonely Planet (Special interview for A Lonely Planet)
- Sonic Haiku And Invisible Cities. Yasuhiro Morinaga’s Sound Design
- THE FIELD REPORTER
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