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From: http://www.solstice-japan.com/kojiasano/KOJI_ASANO.htmlComposer/Performer
JAPAN/SPAIN
Born: 26 of April, 1974
Koji Asano is creating an original world of music through his use of various instruments. This electroacoustic-music is distinguished by its lack of constraint and free style.26 titles of CD works are so wide-ranged from Computers, Solo Piano, Guitar Bands, Experimental electronics to Strings, his group Koji Asano Ensemble in Tokyo. Besides album works, he also produces original sound tracks for dance performances, films, Video art. Collaborated with sculptors and painters for series exhibitions in Moscow, Puskin and Latvia in 1997, also composed the string quartet piece for Bruno Letort's project "Megapoles" performed by The Smith Quartet at Vingtieme theatre in Paris last June 1999. He is requested by Banda Municipal de Barcelona to compose new orchestra piece which will be shown at L'Espai in October 2001. Living in Barcelona now for more projects and concerts in all Europe. (c)Kumi Sasaki, Hokutopia Hall/TOKYO
Over the past six years, composer Koji Asano has explored the beauty and the terror of experimental sound on 20 self-produced CDs for his Barcelona-based label Solstice. An adept pianist and guitarist, the 27-year-old Tokyo native has improvised solo concerts and played noisy, altrock-ishi instrumental tunes in various combos throughout Europe. He's also scored pieces for string quartets and orchestras. But his more recent work eschews the well-worm path of familiar music making contexts for a less traveled route involving feedback, computers, and electronics. - San Francisco Weekly
Now based in Barcelona, Tokyo's Koji Asano is an electro-acoustic composer/multi-instrumentalist, a super-prolific(20 albums) lover of sound and an inspiring figure for his eagerness to express new ideas via a huge and often seemingly contradictory variety of forms and palettes. He's fond of interfacing new technology like computer-aided tone-generation/filtering and digital delay effects with traditional acoustic instruments such as piano, guitars and string quartets, and is equally attracted to pure improvisation and tightly structured pieces, in both acoustic or electronic formats. - Los Angels Weekly
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- http://www.kojiasano.com/ (official)