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.