Monochrome

by Yui Onodera from Tokyo, Japan

Ambient

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Yui Onodera is a Tokyo-based producer, sounds artist whose works explore the relation between musical forms, architectural acoustics and spatial awareness. As a sounds artist, he has a distinctive figure in the fields of experimental electronic music, modern ambient and electro-acoustic music, working across the spheres of composition and installation work for over 10 years. Exploring notions of perception, memory and sonic afect across a wide array of creative forms, he uses a broad palette of musical instruments, field recordings and electronics to craft provocative listening experiences and creating dense clouds of blurry, hypnotic sound. His works are widely published internationally, he has released numerous works on esteemed labels like KOMPAKT (DE), Room40 (AUS) and more. In addition to his studio albums he composed the music for the documentaly film about John Cages “Cage 64”. In 2017, alongside his musical profession he works as a sound art lecturer at Rikkyo University and Musashino Art University. He has also produced collaboration works with artists from every imaginable genre: sound artists Francisco López, sound artists Stephen Vitiello, composer Scanner, musician/visual artist Robert Lippok, electronic music duo Pjusk, vibraphone player/composer Masayoshi Fujita, musician Chihei Hatakeyama.
In parallel to his music career he works on art/media installations. He is a founding member of the art collective Nor whose ethos is centered around the production of multidimensional work through sound, visual and Installation art. In recent years, his work has been exhibited at international festivals and museums including Media Ambition Tokyo, MUTEK Festival (Japan) and NTT inter communication center [ICC].