Yasuhiro Morinaga

Yasuhiro Morinaga
Native name	森永泰弘
Born	(1980-08-01) August 1, 1980
Occupation(s)	Sound designer, composer of Musique concrète
Years active	2007-present
Website	Official website

Yasuhiro Morinaga (森永泰弘, Morinaga Yasuhiro, born August 1, 1980 in Tokyo) is a Japanese sound designer, music director, sound archivist, and the composer of Musique concrète. He is known as a sound designer for Asian Independent Cinema. Morinaga is also a field recording artist specialized in outland ethnic music, oral communication, wildlife and bioacoustics.^[1]

Biography

Morinaga studied at the Victorian College of Arts (University of Melbourne) where he studied Sound Design, specialized in sound and music for contemporary dance and film. After graduating, Morinaga entered the Graduate School of Film and New Media at Tokyo University of the Arts. He was engaged in practicing audiovisual relationship as his research.

While Morinaga was a graduate student at Tokyo University of the Arts, he was selected for Asian Film Academy 2006, practice based film-making workshop, organized by Pusan International Film Festival and the following year, 2007, he was selected for Berlinale Talent Campus (organized by Berlin International Film Festival).^[2]

Morinaga received a sponsorship from the Ministry of Cultural Affairs Japan to direct the International Symposium for sound and recording, Sound Continuum in 2009.^[3] In 2010, Morinaga received an API research fund, Asian Public Intellectual Research driven by Nippon Foundation and Kyoto University, conducting field recording in Malaysia.^[4]

Discography

Solo and collaborative albums

Filigree of Frost (2008) - Concept Album
Abstracks Cassette (2011, Edit by Rainier Lericolais)
Japanese Girls at the Harbor (2012, with Roberto Paci Dalò)
Sceneries from the Castellated Wall (2012)^[1]

Archival albums

Archival Sound Series - Sir. Ludwig Koch (2010)
Field Recording Series - Endah Laras [Surakarta, Indonesia] (2013)"
Field Recording Series - Slamet Gundono [Surakarta, Indonesia] (2014)"

Selected filmography

Music director and sound designer

A Bao A Qu(2007, Dir: Naoki Kato) 14th Pusan International Film Festival (New Currents Section)
Block B (2008, Dir: Chris Chong Chan Fui) 38th Rotterdam International Film Festival (Tiger Award Competitions for Short program)
Karaoke (2009, Dir: Chris Chong Chan Fui) 62nd Cannes International Film Festival (Directors' Fortnight)
Earth (2009, Dir: Ho Tzu Nyen) 66th Venice International Film Festival (Corto Cortissimo Section)
A Lonely Planet (2010, Dir: Takefumi Tsutsui)
A Boy inside the Boy (2011, Dir: Saburo Teshigawara)
Guilty of Romance (2011, Dir: Sion Sono) 64th Cannes International Film Festival (Directors Fortnight)
The One (2013, Dir: Ichiro Yamamoto)

Selected performing Arts and installation

Music composer and sound designer

A Ripe Volcano (2010, with Taiki Sakpisit)
Heaven Hell (2010, with Chris Chong Chan Fui) 35th Toronto International Film Festival
Sony contemplating Monolithic Design (2010) Milano Salone (Salone Internazionale del Mobile) Italy
Invisible Cities plus Land of Isolation (2011) Temporeale Festival Italy
Cloud of Unknowing (2011, with Ho Tzu Nyen) 54th Venice Biennale (Singapore Pavilion)
To belong -dialogue- (2012, with Akiko Kitamura)
Male and has a straight antenna (2013, with Mandeep Reikhy)
To belong -cyclonicdream- (2013, with Akiko Kitamura)
UTÉRUS (2014, Foofwa D'Imobilité)
10000 Tigers (2014, with Ho Tzu Nyen)

Selected field recordings

Castellaed Wall (2009, Derry, Northern Ireland)
Land of Isolation (2010, Terengganu, Malaysia)
Ear of Dionysius (2011, Siracusa, Sicily)
Irpinia Soundscape (2012, Irpinia, South Italy)^[5]