Biography
studied general composition in Tokyo, electroacoustic music at the Aufbaustudium (graduate course) of Musikhochschule Dresden under Wilfried Jentzsch, and later at City University London with Simon Emmerson and Denis Smalley where she was conferred her PhD degree. Her research, ‘composing electroacoustic music relating to Japanese traditional music’, was supported by an ORS Award Scheme scholarship of the UK. Her pieces have been invited and presented at various festivals such as CYNETart Dresden, the International symposium at Folkwang Essen, the Electroacoutic Music Festival Florida (granted by Japan Foundation), EXPO 966 UK, CEMC Beijing and Musica Viva Lisbon, and broadcast by the WDR, MDR, Radio Berlin and Antwerp Radio. In 2006 she was a guest composer by ZKM Karlsruhe (ZKM grant). Currently, she is working as a curator of visual music. As a lecturer she taught at Shobi University and Institute of Sound Technique in Japan, and is currently giving workshops and lectures world wide in Japanese, English and German.
updated 5. August 2010
