Yasuhiro Morinaga

Yasuhiro Morinaga
Yasuhiro Morinaga 森永泰弘
	Yasuhiro Morinaga in August 2012
Background information
Born	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, and independent filmmaker. He is director of the 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

2020: Pollinators (Saitama Triennale 2020, Japan)
2019: Lab in the forest with Ayoro Laboratory + Naoki Ishikawa (Tobiu Art Festival, Japan)
2019: R for Resonance with Ho Tzu Nyen (Sharjah biennale, UAE)
2017: Light and Sound on the Planet with Naoki Ishikawa (Ichihara Lakeside Museum, Japan)
2017: Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia with Ho Tzu Nyen (Singapore)
2016: Aomori EARTH2016 with Dot Architects (Aomori Museum of Art, Japan)
2016: Trading Garden (Sound&City, Ark Hills Roppongi Tokyo, Japan)
2015: Aomori EARTH2015 (Aomori Museum of Art, Japan)
2011: Cloud of Unknowing with Ho Tzu Nyen (Singapore Pavilion at Biennale di Venezia, Italy)
2010: Sony contemplating Monolithic Design (Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Italy)
2010: Heaven Hell with Chris Chong Chan Fui (Future Projection at Toronto International Film Festival, Canada)
2010: A Ripe Volcano with Taiki Sakpisit (Rotterdam International Film Festival, Holland)

Filmography (Sound Designer & Music Director)

2020: Edge of Daybreak (Dir: Taiki Sakipisit,Thailand)
2019: 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)

2021: The Threshold (with Kenta Kojiri)
2020: UrFear as a part of Multitude of Peer Gynts (with Theater GARASI)
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

Archival Sound Series - Ludwig Karl Koch (2010)
Archival Sound Series - José Maceda (2015)

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)
Field Recording Series - He Wei Xiang [Lijiang, China] (2015)
Field Recording Series - Snake Charmer : Narayan Jogi [Rajasthan, India] (2016)
Field Recording Series - Christian Mara [West Kalimantan, Borneo] (2016)

References

http://www.the-concrete.org/en/concrete/

External links

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[1] ttp://www.the-concrete.org/en/concrete/