Yasuhiro Morinaga

Yasuhiro Morinaga
Yasuhiro Morinaga in August 2012
Background information
Native name	森永 泰弘
Born	(1980-08-01) August 1, 1980 Tokyo
Genres	Field recording, experimental music, ethnographic film
Occupation(s)	Sound designer, composer of musique concrète, ethnographic filmmaker
Years active	2007-present
Labels	Concrete
Website	Concrete

Yasuhiro Morinaga (森永 泰弘, Morinaga Yasuhiro, born August 1, 1980) is a sound designer, music director, independent filmmaker and director of ethnographic media production label, concrete"". Morinaga specializes in recording and documenting the obscure music of different parts of the world and has published number of recordings on internet. By using the recording material and understanding its cultural contexts, Morinaga creates and produces installations, audiovisual works and the performances.

Morinaga works as sound designer and the music director for the feature films, documentaries, performing arts, cooperate installations, collaborating with artists and the companies around the world. Morinaga often gives workshop and series of lecture for sound at different institutions, universities and the public spaces.

Media Performances

• Invisible Cities Italy (2011)
• Irpinia Soundscape Italy (2011)
• Anabiosis Passage (2014)
• A Widow in Batavia (2015)
• Message from a Medicine Man (2016)
• Marginal gongs (2016)

Installations

• A Ripe Volcano (2010, with Taiki Sakpisit/Thailand)
• Heaven Hell (2010, with Chris Chong Chan Fui/Malaysia)
• Sony contemplating Monolithic Design (2010, Japan)
• Cloud of Unknowing (2011, with Ho Tzu Nyen/Singapore)
• INTERFERENZE 2015 (2015, MAXXI Rome, Italy)
• Aomori EARTH2015 (2015, Aomori Museum of Art, Japan)
• Invisible Ensemble (2016, SPIRAL Tokyo)
• Trading Garden (2016, Sound&City, Ark Hills Roppongi Tokyo)
• Aomori EARTH2016 (2016, with Dot Architects / Aomori Museum of Art, Japan)
• Aomori EARTH2016 (2016, with Dot Architects / Aomori Museum of Art, Japan)
• Capturing the Map of Light on This Planet by Naoki Ishikawa (2017, Ichihara Lakeside Museum, Japan)

Filmography (Sound Designer & Music Director)

• A Bao A Qu(2007, Dir: Naoki Kato, Japan)
• Block B (2008, Dir: Chris Chong Chan Fui, Malaysia)
• Karaoke (2009, Dir: Chris Chong Chan Fui, Malaysia)
• Earth (2009, Dir: Ho Tzu Nyen, Singapore)
• A Lonely Planet (2010, Dir: Takefumi Tsutsui, Japan)
• A Boy inside the Boy (2011, Dir:Saburo Teshigawara, Japan)
• Guilty of Romance (2011, Dir: Sion Sono, Japan)
• The One (2013, Dir: Ichiro Yamamoto, Japan)
• 9/5 (2014, Omnibus Films with Japan, Thailand, Singapore and China)
• Discovery of the Film - Toshio Matsumoto (2015, Dir: Takefumi Tsutsui, Japan)
• YAMATO(California) (2016, Dir: Daisuke Miyazaki, Japan)
• ANASTASIS (2016, Dir: Faozan Rizal, Tony Broer, Indonesia)
• Uzu (2016, Dir: Gaspard Kuentz, France&Japan)
• Mawari KAGURA (2017, Dir: Mirai Osawa, Japan)
• Seen and Unseen (2017, Dir: Kamila Andini, Indonesia)

Contemporary dance and theater (Music Director)

• To belong -dialogue- (2012, with Akiko Kitamura/Japan and Indonesia)
• Male and has a straight antenna (2013, with Mandeep Reikhy/India)
• To belong -cyclonicdream- (2013, with Akiko Kitamura/Japan and Indonesia)
• UTÉRUS (2014, Foofwa D'Imobilité/Switzerland)
• 10000 Tigers (2014, with Ho Tzu Nyen/Singapore)
• Decimal Points 0 (2014, with Andy Lim/Singapore)
• SHELL (2014, with Kana Ote/Japan)
• To belong -Suwung- (2014, with Akiko Kitamura/Japan and Indonesia)
• Route1 (2015, with Akiko Kitamura/Japan)
• Queen-Size (2016, with Mandeep Raikhy/India)
• Surface & Destory (2017, with Kenta Kojiri / Yoko Seyama)
• Self-Portrait (2017, with Kenta Kojiri)

Discography

References

External links

• Concrete 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