person

1959 –

Japan

Born in Tokyo, lives and works in Tokyo and in Germany. Associate Professor in the Department of Fine Arts: Inter-Media at the Tokyo National University for Fine Art and Music. He studied composition under Yoshirou Irino in Japan, under Isang Yunat the Academy of Arts in Berlin and under György Ligeti at the Academy of Music and Theatre in Hamburg. He has conducted research in institutions including the Computer Music Center of Stanford University where he was guest composer (1991) and the Institute for Art and Media Technology in Karlsruhe (ZKM). He founded the Music Media Lab in Hamburg (1992). Deploying the chaos theory and interactive technology his pieces far surpass the classical applications of music electronics. In acoustic music media, his pieces unleash the positive, creative abilities working together to make art in collaboration with each other. His latest composition is 'like pidgin' (2007). (source: http://www.crosssound.com/CSarchives/COMPOSERS/composersall.html) (2011)