Yutaka Hirose
Yutaka Hirose is a Japanese composer and sound designer working in environmental and ambient music. He is known for Soundscape 2: Nova (1986), an album commissioned by the housing company Misawa Home that sets synthesizers against recordings of birdsong, water drops and waves. He has said he wanted to build sound around a space rather than make something musical in the usual sense. Yutaka Hirose made Nova as the second volume of Misawa Home's Soundscape series, which had begun with an album by Hiroshi Yoshimura.
Voices
Yutaka Hirose’s new album "Voices" is a visionary ambient journey—field recordings, spatial layers, and abstract narratives create immersive, transformative sonic worlds.
Diastrophism Dance
Kaori Komura and Yutaka Hirose’s Diastrophism Dance, renders the Earth’s slow violence as sound. Combining environmental recordings, electronics, and acoustic fragments, it transforms geological tension into choreography—a meditation on tectonic move…
John Cage memorial
Big tip! The Kiyosato Museum of Contemporary Art was located in Kiyosato, Yamanashi prefecture from 1990 to 2014. It was a private art museum with a permanent exhibit based on a collection of unrivalled scale. The museum also collected and mounted ex…
Trace: Sound Design Works 1986-1989
Never released until today! A collection of 11 unreleased tracks produced during the Sound Process Design sessions, right after the release of his classic album Nova.
Sound Process Design was Satoshi Ashikawa's company, home of his Wave Notation tri…
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Nostalghia
Dripping sound... rippling into the womb and beyond Yutaka Hirose "Nostalgia" World's First Sound Source Simultaneously Released on CD/LP. Here is the culmination of Japanbient!
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Nova + 4
Restocked, reduced price. WRWTFWW Records present an expanded reissue of one of the most fascinating Japanese ambient / environmental albums ever made, Nova by Yutaka Hirose, originally released in 1986. The expanded reissue includes the album known …