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Profile of Yoshiaki Ochi
- Composer, Percussionist, Member of Japan Composers Association
- OCHI BROTHERS---Yoshiaki & Yoshihisa Ochi (Percussion Duo)
Yoshiaki Ochi has been conducting field work in many parts of the world since 1979, experiencing and performing various kinds of percusion music. In 1983, he started using ethnic musical instruments, natural materials such as water and stone, and art objects on the stage, to create a new style of music with the image of linking human with the earth. That year, he gave a performance titled "Natural Sonic". From 1984 to 1990, he won worldwide fame as a composer and performer for the fashion show of the ISSEY MIYAKE Collection. In 1990, he released a CD album, "Natural Sonic" and directed a performance under the same title. The following year, in the Sound and Environment Forum, he presented the "Performance of the sound of the earth" in 1992, he perticipated in the Campaign for the global environment as a composer of its theme song and as a producer of a related television program. These events made him popular as a leading figure of ambient music. For the past few years, he has been activity working on his own pieces such as the performance titled "Visual Sonic" at the La MaMa Theater in New York in 1993, which won him high esteem from journalists in and outside Japan. In 1995, he directed the ambient opera "Partheno Genesis" at the Artsphere in Tokyo. He also devotes himself to education, conducting workshops and a series of concerts for kids titled "Art for Kids". Other areas of his energetic activities include production of music for TV, Radio and CD-ROM, and creation of enviromental for aquariums and atriums, as well as collaborations with other artists from various fields. In October 1996, he released two albums, "AQUA-water from sanctuary" and "Natural Sonic 2".
In April 1997, he produced his performing arts "Natural Sonic" at the La MaMa Theater in New York and open to the public on internet his homepage (http://www.j-wave.co.jp). And others, the workshop and concert for parent and child succeeded at Hudson (Time and Space Unlimited Theater), and Hawaii Island (Hawaii University and Kalani Honua Cultural Center), In June 1998, he performed titled "Natural Sonic" and did workshop "Play with Rhythm and Sound" at Jooksan International Arts Festival in Korea. In August 2000, "Natural Sonic 2000" and did work shop "Children and their parents making musical instruments and learning performance method" at Iksan Int'l Performing Arts Festival for Children & Young Adults in Korea.
Their Own Site
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Works
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FASHION
- ISSEY MIYAKE Collection (1984-1990)
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TV PROGRAMS
- "Unknown Ancient / Road of the Sun", NHK (public Television station in Japan) (1985)
- "Rondo" NHK-BS: Heavy low-pitched sound special. (1991)
- "Sea Meal & Mountain Meal" theme song, Fuji TV: drama program. (1991-1997)
- "Eco Music TV" music produce, BS-TV program (2000-)
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CM
- "Wonderland Thailand", Thai Airline. (1994)
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RADIO
- "Sonic Heart Beat", producer and live performance of J-WAVE JAPAN (1994)
- "Poetry Cafe", music producer and live perormance of J-WAVE JAPAN (1996)
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ENVIRONMENTAL MUSIC
- Issey Miyake Bodyworks-Fashon Without Taboos in London (1985)
- Toyota Amlax Building (1990)
- Tokyo Gas OZON building (1993)
- Japan Women's College:
Nishiikuta Naruse Auditorium (1996-)
- Shinagawa Aquarium (1995-)
- Kamogawa Seaworld (1995-)
- Ebisu Station Building (1997-)
- Japan Culture Senter Micro Cosmos in Paris (1997)
- Tachikawa Granduo Building (1999-)
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CD-ROM
- "Tokoro Yukinori CD-ROM / Dreamy Corridor", Nippon Economic Newspaper (1996)
- "Let's play with the world's musical instruments", Fujitsu (1996)
- "Mayan Colors - A Guatemala Fantasy" / GAIA Odyssey series, KINYOSHA (1998)
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CD
- Album "Natural Sonic" (1990)
- Album "Natural Sonic 2" (1996)
- Album "AQUA --water from sanctuary--"(1996)
- Compilation "FUTUREMUSIC" (1996)
- Compilation "SUMMER OF RAINBOW" (1997)
- Compilation "EARTH DANCE" (1998)
- Album "Ochi Brothers"(1999)
- Album "BEATING THE EARTH" (2001)
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PERFORMANCE (THEATRICAL WORKS)
1982
- Yoshiaki Ochi Percussion Performance (LAFORE MUSEUM, Tokyo & Aichi Art Center)
1983
- Natural Sonic (at Gallery, Tokyo)
- Yoshiaki Ochi Percussion Performance (Yokohama EDUCATION & CULTURAL HALL)
1989
- In The Misterious Forest (Spiral Garden, Tokyo)
- For the Water, the Wood, and the Sound of Metal (SEZON MUSEUM of ART, Tokyo)
- NATURAL SONIC (Spiral Garden,Tokyo)
1990
- Trial of Beat the Wood (The MUSEUM of MODERN ART, Toyama)
1991
- VISUAL SONIC (Spiral Garden, Tokyo)
1993
- VISUAL SONIC (La Mama / ANNEX Theater, New York)
- ART FOR KIDS Workshop & Concert (Yokohama, Kagoshima, Tokyo), 1993-1996.
1994
- Sound of the Earth for KIDS (Shizuoka)
1995
- NATURAL SONIC (Sphere Mex Hall, Tokyo)
- AMCIENT OPERA-ParthenoGenesis (Art Sphere Theater, Tokyo)
1996
- SOUND of EARTH (INAX Gallery, Tokyo)
- NATURAL SONIC / preview for La MaMa (Sphere Mex Hall, Tokyo)
1997
1998
- NATURAL SONIC & Workshop (Jooksan International Arts Festival, KOREA), June 5-7.
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