Toshiya Yamanaka | ms

山中季哉 http://www.vgmdb.net/db/artists.php?id=1071 .

For more than 15 years, the Yokohama based artist Toshiya Tsunoda has been releasing remarkable acoustic works into a world that he seems to hear like no one else. His CDs are the most idiosyncratic and rigorous to be found among the many field recording releases of recent years, though his work is just as easy to place in the sound art frame. His short tracks capture with dazzling clarity the acoustic characteristics of particular spaces. Often the focus narrows to a single phenomenon: wind whistling, the hum of an aluminium plate, or cicadas heard through a chink in a...

Born:1960 in Japan. Composer, producer, DJ. He has been active in the empirical music field in Kyoto since he was student of Kansai University. He was member of [dumb type] (multimedia group of Kyoto) in early days, where he created a new wave of digital sound music. He has recently collaborated with many artists in different fields. He composed Singaporean director On Ken Sen’s work “The Global Soul”, it is still popular in many countries. He took a part of Biwako biennial 2001 and 2004. His work in the Biwako biennial with Takahashi, Sonomi Tamasugu and Korean traditional singer Kan-Kon-Sun...