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.
White Stone Gallery Ginza New Building — Clément Denis “In Search of Light” (Environmental Music), Tokyo, Ginza
“ORATIO ~ Prayer of the West, Prayer of the East” (Theater Music), Nerima Cultural Center, Tokyo
Research and film music composition for Yasuhiko Tsuchida’s film “Crossroads of Fate” (Magone).
Production and implementation of the Yokohama City sound logo.
Min-On performance “Flower ~ Blossoms of Resonating Cultures” — Opening Music (Video Music), Nakano Sunplaza Hall, Tokyo
Online mahjong game “Live Mahjong!” (Game Music)
Takashi Kokubo in charge of music for the stage production Bugei “ONIKIRI — Blade of Demon-Banishing”.
Produced the audio signage tones for JRA’s automated ticket vending machines.
“Cosmos Concert” (Tsukuba Expo Center)
Aki Fukakusa “Moon Boat” (Asahi Seimei Hall)
“Future Sonic Perception” (Hibiya Public Hall)
“Myōkō Laser & Synthesizer Performance”
“Four-Dimensional Concert” (Miyagi Museum of Art)
Performed on concert tours with Stomu Yamashita
“TODAY’S NEWS” (NHK BS1) – Coverage centered on environmental music and Sound Perfume.
“Evening Wide” (NHK) – Featured as a composer creating environmental music in Mukawa Village, Yamanashi.
ETV8 (NHK) – “Computer Music: How Far It Has Come”
“The Computer Age” (NHK) – Featured as a composer recreating Mahler on synthesizer.
“High-Tech Art Frontlines” (Fuji TV) – Broadcast of a laser and synthesizer performance in Myōkō.
Stomu Yamashita – Kōyasan Concert (NHK).
Takashi Kokubo:Creating ambient music out of art and the environment / The Japan Times
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