Yasuhiro Morinaga

Yasuhiro Morinaga is exactly the kind of person the music world quietly depends on — a Tokyo University of the Arts grad who went all-in on being the one behind the curtain. Born in 1980 in Tokyo, he works as a sound artist and sound designer, now based in Portugal, and that's someone who genuinely lives inside the architecture of sound. He records the rituals and music of minority peoples in Asia and indigenous communities in the Amazon and turns them into installations and stage works, which honestly earns my respect — in an era where everyone performs their process online, that "just listen to the work" stance feels almost rebellious. Japan's music scene gets plenty of spotlight on its front-row talent, but it's the Geidai-trained craftspeople holding the whole structure together from the wings. Morinaga feels like one of those pillars — unhurried, unflashy, and probably more essential than his public profile would ever suggest.

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Yasuhiro Morinaga (born August 1, 1980) is a Japanese sound artist and sound designer from Tokyo, now based in Portugal. He studied at the Graduate School of Film and New Media of Tokyo University of the Arts. Refining ethnographic methods through fieldwork, he documents the rituals and music of ethnic minorities in Asia and indigenous peoples of the Amazon, and presents cross-genre works in Japan and abroad.

Name (English)

Yasuhiro Morinaga

Name (Japanese)

森永泰弘

Reading

もりなが やすひろ

Born

August 1, 1980 (age 46)

Origin

Tokyo, Japan

Occupation

Sound Artist / Sound Designer / Music Director / Composer / Music Producer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Monkey

University

Tokyo University of the Arts

• Official sitehttp://www.yasuhiromorinaga.com
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A3%AE%E6%B0%B8%E6%B3%B0%E5%BC%98
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16221068

Tags

• From Tokyo
• Sound Artist
• Sound Designer
• Music Director

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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