Takashi Kokubo

Takashi Kokubo is a Japanese composer and sound designer from Tokyo, and one of the main names of kankyō ongaku, the Japanese environmental music. He has worked with electronics since the early 1980s, writing music for public spaces, companies and devices. He is known for Get At The Wave (1987) and for the earthquake early warning tone heard on Japanese mobile phones. Kokubo attended the University of Electro-Communications, where he built analogue synthesizers, and later set up his own company, Studio Ion.