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Masamitsu Araki
Born 1981 in Yamagata, Japan.
Lives and works in Kyoto.
Artist, musician, sound designer.
While music is the subject of his activities, he takes standing on its periphery as a starting point, humorously pursuing the creativity of listening and re-connecting it with music to encourage a reconsideration of context and utility. The soundscape constructed through their unique interpretation and process utilizes sound, video, voice, site-specific elements and environments, and is presented in a wide variety of forms, including theater pieces, installations, performances, tours, and sound sources. The work is based on the idea of drifting through the boundaries of “sound-music” together, which can be seen by breaking down and observing the totality of sound that surrounds us from a familiar perspective.
Araki is also active as a member of ARCHIVES PAY, a participatory work group for recording, and NEW MANUKE, a music group, and has collaborated with a wide variety of artists as a sound designer, and has been returning the knowledge he has gained through his sound contributions at each site to his own activities.
C.V.
1981 Born in Yamagata , Japan
Lives and works in kyoto
Education
2005 Kyoto University of Art and Design , Kyoto
Theatre Piece , Concert Piece , Performance
2023 Paradise Lost , SPA of Narratives , Kinosaki International Arts Center , Hyogo
2022 Thought-provoking rut-busting project Talking Heads , Kinosaki International Arts Center , Hyogo
2021 Twilight Zoning , Higashi Kujo area, Sujin area (Kyoto)*Collaborative plan with Kazumichi Komatsu, Kyoto , ＊Tour performance
2021 Soundtrack for Midnight TAMURO , KYOTO EXPERIMENT 2021AUTUMN, Mt. Hiei Summit Parking Lot, Kyoto
2021 Public Address – Sound of place , KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS Petit Varie, Brussels
2021 Zombie Soundtrack , Lecture Room Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, Kyoto
2020 Loud Archives 2020 - Public Address –Sound of place, Room to Amplify 2020, SCOOL, Tokyo
2018 A story about going to the beach with an uncle, Kyoto Art Center Auditorium, Kyoto
2018 Room to Amplify, Sound Performance Plat form2018, Aichi Prefectural Art Theater Mini Theater , Aichi
2018 Pond is listening From the Reservoir Sound Collection, Marugame Genichiro–Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa
2016 Big Echo of Man and Woman, Kyoto Art Center Free Space, Kyoto
2014 《Showing》01 sound : Public Address - Sound of Place 2, Kyoto Art Theater studio21, Kyoto
2013 Public Address - Sound of Place 2, Atelier Gekken, Kyoto
2013 Public Address –1, Transit Melody - The man who went fishing to the Fukushima coast, Rikkyo University Niiza campus loft 1, saitama
2011 @There and Here - Call from N city, Atelier Gekken, Kyoto
2010 FUWAHOOP, kuromegarou, Osaka ＊Tour performance
Solo exhibitions
2022 Why don't you dance?, Nagano Prefectural Art Museum Art Lab Ⅲ, Nagano
2022 The Breeze and You, Have something that defines my judgment vol. 3 Masamitsu Araki, Guest Curator: Machiko Chiba(Curator, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art), gallery αM, Tokyo
2021 Zombie and Me, The Triangle Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, Kyoto
2018 RECLOLLECTION 38°×139°Jurakuso : The Birth of a Day, Jurakuso,Urawa Fureaikan, Saitama
2016 Acoustic Device Five Movements for Noise, Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Tokyo
2016 Archives in Smoke, Kyoto Art Center Free Space, Kyoto
2012 Transit Melody - The man who went fishing to the Fukushima coast, Nishisugamo Souzousya,Tokyo
2012 Jukebox in smoke, Nishisugamo Souzousya, Tokyo
Group exhibitions
2023 MONAURALS, WHITEHOUSE, Tokyo
2021 CULTIVATING SUCCESSIVE WISDOMS, Akita Cultural Creation Center, Akita
2020 ISDRSI Isodo - Resui, Toyooka City Museum of Art, etc, Hyogo
2019 Land Voice Land Song, Formerly in Toyoda Higashi High School, Toyota
2019 Windshield Time-Aichi Triennale Regional Development Project, Former Aichi Bank, Toyota City, Toyota
2018 The Instrument Builders Project –Circulating Echo, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto
2018 Outdoor Exhibition Otowa River Landscape, Otowa River, Otowa River Erosion Control Dam, Kyoto
2017 Symphony LDK, Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA, Kyoto
2015 ALL NIGHT HAPS 『DEMO』, Higashiyama artist plasement service, Kyoto
2015 Before Night Falls, ARTZONE, Kyoto
Planning , Co-production , Sound design plan
2016 Three Woman, Directed and Video by Takashi Ito, Aichi Triennale 2016, Aichi Prefectural Art Theater Mini Theater, Aichi
2016《Showing》03 visual／Three Woman, Directed and Video by Takashi Ito, Kyoto Art Theater Syunjyuza, Kyoto
2015《Showing》02 photo／Scene of yamabiko, Directed and Photo by Shunsuke Kano and Masamitsu Araki, Kyoto Art Theater Syunjyuza, Kyoto
Sound design , Music compose , Collaboration
2023 Juggle & Hide（Seven
2023 Juggle & Hide（Seven Whatchamacallits in Search of a Director）,Derected by Wichaya Artamat/For What Theatre
2023 Sakurahimeazumabunsyo, KINOSHITA KABUKI, Directed by Toshiki Okada(chelfitsch) , OWLSPOT THEATRE, Tokyo, Toyohashi Arts Theatre PLAT, Toyohashi, ROHM Theatre KYOTO South Hall, Kyoto, Ryutopia Niigata City Performing Arts Center, Niigata, Kurume City Plaza, Kurume
2022 N, Directed by Yuichiro Tamura, KOTARO NUKAGA, Tokyo
2022 Invisible Hands, Directed by Yuichiro Tamura, Aichi2022, TsuneZune, Tokoname
2022 My Self-Portraits as a Theater of Labyrinths : Theater of Voices : The Voice of the Shadow Face, Directed by Yasumasa Morimura, Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art Higashiyama Cube, Kyoto
2022 TOWER(BUS) , Directed by Teppei Kaneuji, Art Bus, 21stCentury Museum of Contemporary Art KANAZAWA, Kanazawa
2021 Watching Dance with Creative Audio Descriptions, Kyoto Art Center Free Space, Kyoto
2021 Three Woman, Directed and Video by Takashi Ito, Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka
2021 TASTELESS, Directed by Yuichiro Tamura, Kyoto Art Theater Syunjyuza, Kyoto
2020 Chemistry / The Story of C, Directed by Yuichiro Tamura, Yokohama Triennale 2020, Lecture Hall Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
2020 tower (KITCHEN) , Directed by Teppei Kaneuji, dot architects , Maeda Coffee Meilin, Kyoto
2020 Readings From Below Eisenbrunnen, Directed by Yuichiro Tamura, Times Art Center Berlin, Berlin
2020 OUT SAFE FLAME, Directed by Yuki Nakagawa, ROHM Theatre KYOTO South Hall, Kyoto
2019 Der Detektiv Bericht, Directed by Yuichiro Tamura, Modern Times, Dusseldorf
2019 If, Directed by Yuichiro Tamura, Yokohama Triennale 2020 Episode 00, Plot 48, Yokohama
2019 Stuck in the narrowest path, Directed by contact Gonzo, Oz Asia2019, ADELAIDE FESTIVAL CENTRE, Adelaide
2019 Sky Eyes, Directed by Yuichiro Tamura, Image Narratives Literature in Japanese Contemporary Art, The National Art Center TOKYO, Tokyo
2018 PRATTHANA A Portrait of Possession, Written by Utit Haemamool, Directed by Toshiki Okada, ASIA IN RESONANCE 2019, Festival d'Automne àParis Japonism 2018,Centre Pompidou, Sodsai Pantoomkomol Centre for Dramatic Arts, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
2018 Hell Scream, Directed by Yuichiro Tamura, Roppongi Crossing 2019 Connexions, Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA, Kyoto
2017 TOWER (THEATER), Directed by Teppei Kaneuji, KYOTO EXPERIMENT2017, ROHM Theatre KYOTO South Hall, Kyoto
2017 Until 5:53 p.m, ART CAMP TANGO 2017 Closing performance, Inaba Honke, a wealthy merchant, Kumihama Park, Kyoto
2017 Selfhood, Directed by Michael Maurissens, Kyoto Art Center Free Space, Kyoto
2016 Sculpture of a Ghost, Directed by Teppei Kaneuji, Marugame Genichiro–Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa
2016 Three Woman, Directed and Video by Takashi Ito, Aichi Triennale 2016, Aichi Prefectural Art Theater Mini Theater, Aichi
2016 Michiyuki, Written by Syuntaro Matsubara, Directed by Motoi Miura（CHITEN）, Aichi Prefectural Art Theater Mini Theater, Aichi
2014 Hara ha hiza made taresagaru, Dance by Kitamari and Momoko Shiraga, Directed by Jun Tsutsui, Kyoto art center, Kyoto, Yokohama noge share, Yokohama
2014 Last Angel, Directed by Takashi Ito, ImageForumFestival 2014, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
2013 Water like stone, Written by Masataka Matsuda, Directed by Yukichi Matsumoto(ISHIN-HA) , Kyoto Art Theater Syunjyuza, Kyoto, Festival/Tokyo 13, Nishisugamo Souzousya, Tokyo
2013 Fit Back? , Directed by Emi Matsuo, Atelier Gekken, Kyoto
2011 HIROSHIMA - HAPCHEON : Exhibition over the two cities, Directed by Masataka Matsuda(Theatre company marebito), KYOTO EXPERIMENT 2011, Kyoto art center Free space, Kyoto, Festival/Tokyo 11, Tokyo, Seoul Performing Arts Festival・HangukPerforming Arts Center - Studio Hig, Seoul
2011 Citydialy Tel Aviv - Jerusalem - Ramalla, Directed by Masataka Matsuda(Theatre company marebito), Waseda University Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Tokyo
2010 Sweet Life, Directed by Takashi Ito, ImageForumFestival2010
2010 UBUROI, Directed by Masataka Matsuda(Theatre company marebito), ARTCOMPLEX1928, Kyoto
2010 Wedding in Blood Bodas de Sangre, Directed by Masataka Matsuda(Theatre company marebito), NHK Theatre collection 2010・NHK Hall, Tokyo
2010 IF, 8PM, DOT, GIGI-GAGA, Animation by Nobuhiro Aihara
2009 Voiceprint City letter to father, Directed by Masataka Matsuda(Theatre company marebito), AI·HALL, Hyogo, FestivalTokyo 09 Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Tokyo
2009 PARK CITY, Directed by Masataka Matsuda(Theatre company marebito), Photo by Keiko Sasaoka, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media(YCAM) , Yamaguchi, Biwako Hall Center for the Performing Arts, Shiga
2008 Wedding in Blood Bodas de Sangre, Directed by Masataka Matsuda(Theatre company marebito), Atelier Gekken , Kyoto
2008 DICTEE , Written by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Directed by Masataka Matsuda(Theatre company marebito), Kyoto Art Theater studio21, Kyoto