Release date: February 12, 2026 A sound environment designer reveals the secrets of sound for the first time.
The 1st ION Forest Retreat was held on November 11–12, 2025.
NHK "Don’t sleep through life! "(Rebroadcast)“Why does the earthquake early warning on mobile phones sound like that?”
An additional live performance celebrating the release of GAIAPHILIA, the collaborative album by Yumiko Morioka & Takashi Kokubo
“Gaiaphilia” — Japan-Exclusive CD Release Party
A collaboration between Yumiko Morioka and Takashi Kokubo. A new masterpiece of Japanese environmental music, rooted in nature and imbued with deep emotion and transcendence.
“Tree of Life” — Takashi Kokubo & Naoki Tate Live at Manchin Saketen
Environmental video content provided for the USEN BGV service
2nd GAS Bon Odori Festival
Ambient × J-Rock Film Score. Eight tracks including GLAY, officially selected in two international film festival soundtrack categories; created by director Tanabe and the composers.
Takashi Kokubo & Andrea Esperti’s collaboration album Music For A Cosmic Garden is a healing work that fuses field-recorded nature soundscapes with meditative ambient music.
Takashi Kokubo combines natural field recordings from 50 countries with cutting-edge visual technology. 5.1ch surround Blu-ray.
Final installment of the Brain-Fitness series. GAIA infrasonic mix. Birds and water with synths drifting through space. Cyberphonic recording, headphones recommended.
Brain-Fitness, 2nd Volume. Fractal soundfields that regulate the nervous system. Cyberphonic recording. Headphones recommended.
Brain-Fitness Trilogy Vol.1. DNA-helix themed 3D sound to activate the brain. Headphones recommended. Includes “EVOLUTION IN URBANLIFE.”
Light In The Attic’s Japan Special Edition Becomes Grammy Nominee: Takashi Kokubo and the Definitive Survey of Japanese Ambient
“Beautiful Night of the Moon” is a poetic soundscape themed on moonlight and silence — a sonic journey that wraps the night and brings gentle healing to the heart.
Sound logo production for C’BON Co., Ltd.
Theme music production for Radio NIKKEI’s program “Atsumare! Hot Age”.
Video production for “Sora no Kanata e ~Endroll~”, included on EXILE ATSUSHI’s 3rd solo album “Love Ballade”.
Provided the composition “Interlude” (natural sound piece) for EXILE ATSUSHI’s 2nd solo album “Music”
Planetarium production “Sea of Shining Coral Life (25-minute version)” (Video Music)
Sound Environment Design for the “Greenhouse” at Sagamihara Park
Music Production for Visual Works at the “Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History”
Sound Environment Design for the “Steteco Bar” at UNIQLO Ginza Store
Sound Environment Design and Music Production for “C’BON” Salons
“Poem Concert” (Otogi-no-Sato)
Takashi Kokubo & Haruka Sōda Talk & Live at Otogi-no-Sato
“Healing Resonance Concert” (Otokine no Sato)
“Healing Poetry Concert” (Otokigi-no-Sato)
“April 21 EARTH DAY: Ambient Garden 2002” performance (Harajuku / Meiji Shrine Treasure Hall Plaza)
“March 3 — Ion no Mori Party: Takashi Kokubo Birthday Live” (Harajuku GIGZO)
“Takashi Kokubo Natural Sound Concert” (Otogi-no-Sato)
“Ion Forest Concert: ‘The Smile of Water’ Album Release Concert” (Osaki Gate City Hall)
“Festival of Flame” — “Natural Sound Concert” (Ishigaki Island)
Asahi Shimbun GLOBE No. 292 (newspaper insert) — Contemporary Society Seen Through Sound
Asahi Shimbun (Web Edition):“Gyu-ee!” — The Master of Healing Sound Behind Japan’s Mobile Earthquake Early Warning Tone Reflects on the Relationship Between Society and Sound
Spatial Audio Production in a Log House Surrounded by Forest
Remote Live Appearance on “Lovely Day♡” (FM Yokohama 84.7) from Yamanashi Discussed the Yokohama sound logo.
“Yokohama’s sound logo completed — expressing the city’s brand image through sound” (Yokohama Keizai Shimbun)
NHK Don’t Sleep Through Life! — “Why does the earthquake early warning on mobile phones sound like that?”
Appearance on Hideki Matsutake’s Program “Logic Radio #150” (α-STATION / FM Kyoto)
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