Yasuhiro Morinaga

is a sound designer, music director, independent filmmaker and director of ethnographic media production label, concrete"". 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
 Invisible Cities Italy (2011)
 Irpinia Soundscape Italy (2011) 
 Anabiosis Passage (2014) 
 A Widow in Batavia (2015)
 Message from a Medicine Man (2016) 
 Marginal gongs (2016)
 GONG ex Machina (2018)

Installations
 A Ripe Volcano (2010, with Taiki Sakpisit/Thailand)
 Heaven Hell (2010, with Chris Chong Chan Fui/Malaysia) 
 Sony contemplating Monolithic Design (2010, Japan) 
 Cloud of Unknowing (2011, with Ho Tzu Nyen/Singapore)
 INTERFERENZE 2015 (2015, MAXXI Rome, Italy)
 Aomori EARTH2015 (2015, Aomori Museum of Art, Japan)
 Invisible Ensemble (2016, SPIRAL Tokyo)
 Trading Garden (2016, Sound&City, Ark Hills Roppongi Tokyo)
 Aomori EARTH2016 (2016, with Dot Architects / Aomori Museum of Art, Japan)
 Aomori EARTH2016 (2016, with Dot Architects / Aomori Museum of Art, Japan)
 Capturing the Map of Light on This Planet by Naoki Ishikawa (2017, Ichihara Lakeside Museum, Japan)

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

Contemporary dance and theater (Music Director)
 To belong -dialogue- (2012, with Akiko Kitamura/Japan and Indonesia)
 Male and has a straight antenna (2013, with Mandeep Reikhy/India)
 To belong -cyclonicdream- (2013, with Akiko Kitamura/Japan and Indonesia)
 UTÉRUS (2014, Foofwa D'Imobilité/Switzerland)
 10000 Tigers (2014, with Ho Tzu Nyen/Singapore) 
 Decimal Points 0 (2014, with Andy Lim/Singapore)
 SHELL (2014, with Kana Ote/Japan)
 To belong -Suwung- (2014, with Akiko Kitamura/Japan and Indonesia)
 Route1 (2015, with Akiko Kitamura/Japan)
 Queen-Size (2016, with Mandeep Raikhy/India)
 Surface & Destroy (2017, with Kenta Kojiri / Yoko Seyama)
 Self-Portrait (2017, with Kenta Kojiri)
 MEDIUM (2018, with RIANTO)
 The extremities of a Surface (2018, with Mandeep Raikhy)

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)

Black & White Series
 Naxi: Weekend Ensemble [Yunnan, China] (2014)
 Naxi: Call and Response [Yunnan, China] (2014)
 Naxi: Qillin Dance [Yunnan, China] (2014)
 Java: Ruwatan Ritual [Yogyakarta, Indonesia] (2016)
 Gong Music: Dayak Kanayatn [West Kalimantan, Borneo](2016)
 Dayak Iban: Manang Sirang Ritual (West Kalimantan, Borneo)(2017)

Music of South Italy
 Aspromonte [Calabria] (2015)
 San Cipriano[Salerno] (2015)

Soundtracks
 EARTH for Experimental Cinema (2010)
 To Belong-Soundtrack for Contemporary Dance (2015)
 Route1 for Contemporary Dance (2015)

Soundscapes
 Soundscape of Ubud (Bali, Indonesia)
 Soundscape of Marrakesh (Morocco)

References

External links
 
Bits Lounge (Toronto Web Informational magazine), Interview
A Lonely Planet (Special interview for A Lonely Planet) 
Sonic Haiku And Invisible Cities. Yasuhiro Morinaga’s Sound Design 

Category:1980 births
Category:Japanese composers
Category:Japanese male composers
Category:Living people
Category:Musicians from Tokyo