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Yasuhiro Morinaga
森永 泰弘
Yasuhiro Morinaga in August 2012
Background information
Born (1980-08-01) August 1, 1980 (age 44)
Tokyo
GenresField recording, experimental music, ethnographic film
Occupation(s)Sound designer, composer of musique concrète, ethnographic filmmaker
Years active2007-present
LabelsConcrete
WebsiteConcrete

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"[1]". Morinaga specializes in recording and documenting the music of different parts of the world and has published number of recordings. By using the recording material and understanding its cultural contexts, Morinaga creates and produces installations, audiovisual works and the performances.

Morinaga works as a sound designer and 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 in different disciplines at different institutions, universities and the public spaces.

Media Performances

  • SETAN JAWA (2019)
  • GONG ex Machina (2018)
  • Marginal gongs (2016)
  • Message from a Medicine Man (2016)
  • A Widow in Batavia (2015)
  • Irpinia Soundscape Italy (2011)
  • Invisible Cities Italy (2011)

Installations

Filmography (Sound Designer & Music Director)

  • 2019: Edge of Daybreak (Dir: Taiki Sakipisit,Thailand)
  • 2018: Science of Fictions (Dir: Yosep Anggi Noen, Indonesia)
  • 2017: Seen and Unseen (Dir: Kamila Andini, Indonesia)
  • 2017: Mawari KAGURA (Dir: Mirai Osawa, Japan)
  • 2016: Uzu (Dir: Gaspard Kuentz, France&Japan)
  • 2016: ANASTASIS (Dir: Faozan Rizal, Tony Broer, Indonesia)
  • 2016: YAMATO(California) (Dir: Daisuke Miyazaki, Japan)
  • 2015: Discovery of the Film - Toshio Matsumoto (Dir: Takefumi Tsutsui, Japan)
  • 2014: 9/5 (Omnibus Films with Japan, Thailand, Singapore and China)
  • 2013: The One (Dir: Ichiro Yamamoto, Japan)
  • 2011: Guilty of Romance (Dir: Sion Sono, Japan)
  • 2011: A Boy inside the Boy (Dir:Saburo Teshigawara, Japan)
  • 2010: A Lonely Planet (Dir: Takefumi Tsutsui, Japan)
  • 2009: Earth (Dir: Ho Tzu Nyen, Singapore)
  • 2009: Karaoke (Dir: Chris Chong Chan Fui, Malaysia)
  • 2008: Block B (Dir: Chris Chong Chan Fui, Malaysia)
  • 2007: A Bao A Qu(Dir: Naoki Kato, Japan)

Contemporary dance and theater (Music Director)

  • 2019: Peer Gynts (with Theater GARASI)
  • 2019: The Seen and Unseen (with Kamila Andini)
  • 2018: The extremities of a Surface (with Mandeep Raikhy)
  • 2018: MEDIUM (with RIANTO)
  • 2017: Self-Portrait ( with Kenta Kojiri)
  • 2017: Surface & Destroy (with Kenta Kojiri / Yoko Seyama)
  • 2016: Queen-Size (with Mandeep Raikhy/India)
  • 2014: To belong -Suwung- (with Akiko Kitamura/Japan and Indonesia)
  • 2014: SHELL (with Kana Ote/Japan)
  • 2014: 10000 Tigers (with Ho Tzu Nyen/Singapore)
  • 2014: UTÉRUS (Foofwa D'Imobilité/Switzerland)
  • 2013: To belong -cyclonicdream- (with Akiko Kitamura/Japan and Indonesia)
  • 2013: Male and has a straight antenna (with Mandeep Reikhy/India)
  • 2012: To belong -dialogue- (with Akiko Kitamura/Japan and Indonesia)

Discography

Archival albums

Field Recording Series

References