Yasuhiro Morinaga


Yasuhiro Morinaga is a sound artist having a particular interest in anthropology and storytelling. Morinaga refines ethnographic methods, practicing interdisciplinary projects that document and explore the origins of musical instruments, the cosmology of rituals, and indigenous technology. Morinaga's practices encourage a sensory awareness.
Morinaga also works as a sound designer and music director for the feature films, documentaries, performing arts, cooperate installations.
Morinaga has been engaged in a role of curation for the ethnographic media production and lab, . Since 2021, He has been based in Lisbon, Portugal.
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Installations

  • 2025: Life Entangled - The Secret Story of Shellac
  • 2024:
  • 2020: -
  • 2019: Lab in the forest with Ayoro Laboratory + Naoki Ishikawa
  • 2019: with Ho Tzu Nyen
  • 2017: Light and Sound on the Planet with Naoki Ishikawa
  • 2017: with Ho Tzu Nyen
  • 2016:
  • 2016:
  • 2015:
  • 2011: with Ho Tzu Nyen
  • 2010:
  • 2010: Heaven Hell with Chris Chong Chan Fui
  • 2010: A Ripe Volcano with Taiki Sakpisit

Interdisciplinary Performances

  • 2025: in collaboration with Robert Millis
  • 2021: in collaboration with Kenta Kojiri)
  • 2019: in collaboration with Garin Nugroho and Kom-I
  • 2018: in collaboration with Yudi Ahmad Tajudin
  • 2016: Marginal gongs
  • 2016: Message from a Medicine Man
  • 2015: A Widow in Batavia
  • 2011: Irpinia Soundscape Italy
  • 2011: Invisible Cities Italy

Filmography (sound designer and music director)

Contemporary dance and theater (music director)

  • 2021: A Hai
  • 2021: Dialogue
  • 2020: UrFear as a part of Multitude of Peer Gynts
  • 2019: Peer Gynts
  • 2019: The Seen and Unseen
  • 2018: The extremities of a Surface
  • 2018: Medium
  • 2017: Self-Portrait
  • 2017: Surface & Destroy
  • 2016: Queen-Size
  • 2014: To belong -Suwung-
  • 2014: Shell
  • 2014: 10000 Tigers
  • 2014: Utérus
  • 2013: To belong -cyclonicdream-
  • 2013: Male and has a straight antenna
  • 2012: To belong -dialogue-

Discography

Archival albums

Field recordings

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Outland ethnologies

  • 2017: "" by Li Jianhong
  • 2018: "" by Ngoc Dai
  • 2021: "Lijiang With/Out & Hokkaido " Compilation CD

Teaching/workshop/seminars

Morinaga has delivered public lectures, workshops and mentorships at universities and organizations.
  • 2025: Guest Lecture - Akita University of Art
  • 2025: Guest Lecture for MA program, Tokyo Metropolitan University
  • 2025: Guest Artist Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
  • 2023: Guest Advisor at Rijksakademie Amesterdam, Netherland
  • 2021: Lecture for musical archive - Tama Art University, Tokyo Japan
  • 2020: Lecture for field recording & sound design - Master Program in Experimental Workshop, Tama Art University, Tokyo Japan
  • 2019: Mentorship for the Workshop - Documentary Dojo, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan
  • 2018: Workshop and Artist in Residence for field-work - Uymam　Project, Hokkaido, Japan
  • 2018: Lecture for sound design - Mumbai Assembly, Mumbai, India
  • 2018: Lecture for sound design - Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, India
  • 2018: Lecture for sound design - Satyajit Ray Film & TV Institute, India
  • 2017: DJ- "Light and Voice of the Planet" with Naoki Ishikawa - Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
  • 2017: Lecture for the field recording and sound design - Japan Foundation Hanoi, Vietnam
  • 2017: DJ- "WYST Collective" - Ensembles Asia Orchestra with Yoshihide Otomo - Yogyakarta, Indonesia
  • 2017: DJ- "Light and Voice of the Planet" with Naoki Ishikawa - Mito Art Museum - ACM Theater, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
  • 2017: Lecture for field recording and sound design - Gunma Prefectural Women's University, Gunma Prefecture, Japan
  • 2016: Lecture for sound representation - Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo Japan
  • 2016: Seminar: Field Recording - Sound & City Festival, Ark-Hills Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
  • 2016: DJ- World Music Night with Keiji Haino and Keiichi Tahara - Ginza Music Bar, Tokyo, Japan
  • 2016: Lecture for sound representation - Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo Japan
  • 2015: Workshop for field recording and sonic ethnology - Aomori Museum of Art
  • 2015: Workshop: Miyakojima Collective - Ensembles Asia Orchestra with Yoshihide Otomo and Naoki Ishikawa
  • 2014: Lecture for sound design - Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • 2013: Workshop for field recording and sound design - Academia di Belle Art di Napoli, Naples, Italy
  • 2013: Workshop for sound design - Chino Cultural Complex, Nagano Prefecture, Japan
  • 2013: Lecture for sound design - Tokyo Polytechnic University, Tokyo, Japan
  • 2012: Workshop for sound design - International Web-Art Festival, Pescara, Italy
  • 2012: Workshop for sound design - Shinshu University, Nagano Prefecture, Japan
  • 2012: Workshop for sound design - GATI dance forum, New Delhi, India
  • 2012: Lecture for sound design - Tokyo Polytechnic University, Tokyo, Japan
  • 2009: Initiator for the International Conference for the sound and moving images "SOUND CONTINUUM"

Awards/Grants

  • 2022: Thai Film Critics Best Film Score, Thailand
  • 2021:
  • 2020: China/Japan residency project with Lijiang Studio S
  • 2019: : S-Air/POINTS center for the Contemporary Art China
  • 2018:, with Gaspard Kuentz
  • 2018:, Hokkaido, Japan
  • 2016-2018: Japan Foundation Asia Center – Promotion of Cultural Collaboration
  • 2016: Japan Foundation Asia Center – Promotion of Cultural Collaboration
  • 2013: ACC: Research fellowship: Asian Cultural Council – Yunnan Province of China
  • 2010: Agency for Cultural Affairs: Project Grant for the International Conference in Sound
  • 2010: Nippon Foundation & Kyoto University: API research fellowship