Yoru no Tsushin

Drifting along the cashew-nut orbit.

Composer.

Born in Ishikawa, Japan.

Works in improvisational expression through his own performance, as well as composing and arranging. 2018 Takefu International Music Festival composition scholarship recipient.

Through exchanges with various artists, he continues to explore the possibilities held by sound.

A self-proclaimed cosmic artist. After studying fine art in the UK, she is now based in Tokyo, researching and creating works grounded in aesthetics.

With French thought as a background, he researches aesthetics and art, while writing essay-like texts.

“She maintains the body’s structure and metabolic systems required for biological activity; as an IT worker, her right hand builds an inventory-management system on a computer, while at the same time her left hand builds a system on a tablet for placing characters to handle enemies that keep surging in without end. In every aspect of survival, labor, and play, she is a system—and she makes systems.”

Video director.

He loves visual expression and enjoys experimenting with images in his mind, shaping them into form.

He explores ways to express the uncertainty and afterimages of being human that can be felt inside the digital.

For this exhibition, he is currently exploring a work themed around the coexistence of humans and AI.

Works primarily in theater as an actor, Chinese pipa performer, and movement-based artist.

As an actor, she has appeared in works by Makoto Ueda, Hideto Iwai, and David Leveaux, among others.

On the Chinese pipa, she studied under Mr. Weiyang Ye since elementary school and has received awards at competitions in Japan and abroad.

Encounters with various artists led her to the joy of exchanging sound through improvisation. Drawing on the physicality and sensibility cultivated as an actor, she uses the pipa’s oriental and delicate timbre to create sessions that respond to the place and to others.

A saxophonist who has performed on numerous stages, centering on improvisation to “turn the present moment into sound.”

Also active as a composer and commercial music producer, working across various media. Self-produced performance projects include “unison” and “An Apple on the Desk.”

Pianist, maker, performer, and more.

In order to become free, she creates things and plays.

Born in Fukushima, Japan.

Works primarily with computer-based improvisation and performance, sound works, and sound installations.

Explores the gravitational pull and presence of sound in the space between mechanical methods and organic sensibilities.

Born in Kumamoto, Japan.

Incorporating different dances and textures into his own foundation, he explores new ways of being that move beyond genre boundaries.

Active in Tokyo and across Japan through self-produced events, solo performances, and appearances in music videos.

With dancer Mikiko Kawamura, he forms the unit 《異路派 -iroha-》, creating works in the streets as a stage.

Aiming to open new horizons in visual expression that only he can achieve, he considers his dance to speak not through words, but through the body’s silence and the depth of time.

Sound artist / saxophonist / composer / painter / etc.

Centered on alto saxophone with a distinctive tone that emphasizes air noise, he pursues an expression that freely moves between silence, sound, and music, presenting works and performances that merge with time and space both in Japan and internationally.

His practice extends beyond music into diverse media such as painting and photography, developing cross-disciplinary creation.

In 2023, he made his major debut with the 1st album “Silence,” released via CADENZA (by T-Toc Records).

Recent highlights include the acrylic painting solo exhibition “Cafe Paintings” and the sound installation “Cafe Music.”

He has also presented Alto Saxophone Solo Exhibitions such as “Progression and Retrogression Based on the Present Moment,” “Noise of the Alto Saxophone and the Sound of Space,” and “Perceptual Boundary Lines.”

Additionally, alongside the publication of Christian Soleil’s “Masaki Hanawa, the other name for delicacy: biography,” he performed in France, expanding the scope of his international activities.

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After graduating from Tama Art University, he works primarily in UI/UX design, while also taking on projects in 3D animation and branding.

A product development project he contributed to last year received the Good Design Award.

He continues to iterate and create daily at the intersection of technology and design.