Motoki Ohkubo
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| Biography | Motoki Ohkubo (*1988) is a Japanese composer, an audio engineer and a part-time teacher at Nagoya University of the Arts, Aichi Shukutoku University and Soai University. In his musical compositions, he uses technologies such as audio engineering, programming and video. His artistic practice comprises a wide range of expression, such as electroacoustic and algorithmic composition, chamber music, dance music, installation and video. Ohkubo won the ACSM116 award at the Contemporary Computer Music Concert in 2010 and the Sony special award at the Wired Creative Hack Awards in 2019. His works have earned prizes and have been performed in several competitions, concerts and symposiums, such as Sound walk (2010) and Close, Closer (2013) of Musica Viva Festival (Portugal), Sound deperture: LIFE LIKE LIVE at 3331 Chiyoda Art Festival 2014 (Japan), Muestra Internacional de Musica Electroacustica 2014 (Mexico), Future City Yokohama Smart Illumination Award 2014 (Japan), RAW Acousmatic for the People III (Sweden), 21st International Symposium on Electric Arts (2015, Canada), 22nd Campus Genius Award (2016, Japan), Sound Performance Platform 2019 (Japan) and Voyage 2021 Beyond Ripples (Japan). ABOUT Motoki Ohkubo: «Kitchen Stream» This work uses sounds recorded in a kitchen and the sound of a flowing river. One of the attractions of electroacoustic music is the creation of space through sound. The use of sonic materials connects the kitchen and the riverside, which are two different spaces. Although the two are spatially unrelated, the combination of acoustic textures creates new spaces and connections. The compositional method combines the performance of sound instruments being recorded, the manipulation of acoustic processing parameters, and the construction of waveforms on a DAW. Sections listening to the constructed sounds, soundscapes, stories progressing through acoustic synthesis, and various compositional acoustic events make up the music. |
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