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
A sonic tale of resonance between forest and water. Kokubo’s gentle sound restores harmony between nature and the heart.
The final installment of the Brain Fitness trilogy. GAIA ultra-low-frequency mix. Birds, water, and synthesizers drift through cosmic space. Recorded in Cyberphonic 3D; headphones recommended. Best experienced in the order: GIGA → VALIS → GAIA.
The second volume of the “Brain Fitness” trilogy. Fractal-generated soundfields designed to regulate the nervous system. Recorded in Cyberphonic 3D; headphones recommended.
The first volume of the “Brain Fitness” trilogy. DNA-helical motifs rendered in ultra-3D spatial audio to refresh the brain. Headphones recommended. Includes the NYC-noise groove track “EVOLUTION IN URBANLIFE.”
The music for the film Kūkai was composed by Stomu Yamashita, with Takashi Kokubo participating on synthesizers. The soundtrack is recognized as a unique spiritual sound work that portrays both stillness and inner depth.
Stomu Yamashita’s Sea & Sky blends environmental sound and instrumentation to create a dramatic work that evokes a vast and beautiful world.
Produced by Stomu Yamashita, Tempest is a dramatic sonic work themed around storms, with Takashi Kokubo supporting the soundscape on synthesizer.
A 1982 work by Stomu Yamashita and the third volume in his Iroha series—an album where synthesizers and Buddhist cosmology merge into meditative sound.
A meditative sonic spectacle released in 1982, in which percussionist Stomu Yamashita and his collaborators explore the theme of “water.”
Music for the “WorldShift Osaka” Workshop Venue
Sound Environment Design and Music Production for the “C’BON” Salons
Composed Music for the Game “Elemental Monster – Online Card Game” (Hudson)
Sound logo production for C’BON Co., Ltd.
Tamaki Mitsuki — “The Magical Breathing CD That Lets You Regain Yourself in a Single Breath” (Daiwa Shobo) introduces a practical CD-book that restores one’s authentic self by harmonizing mind and body through breathwork and sound. CD music by Takashi Kokubo.
Environmental Sound Design and Music Production for the C’BON Beauty Salon
Mitsuki Tamaki’s Seven Stories to Make Your Wishes Come True is a hybrid “read–listen–feel” CD book that harmonizes the heart and energy through seven thematic chapters, guiding the reader toward the realization of personal wishes. Published by Sogo Horei Publishing, the series integrates healing narrative with subtle energetic work. Takashi Kokubo produced the audio for the accompanying CD.
iPhone / iPod Touch applications: “Hello Eddy! La Seine!”, “Chacra VORTEX” (supervised by Mikazuki Tama), “Hello Eddy!”, “Oedo Emikuji”, and “ORGANIC RELAX”.
Bonus CD accompanying a Tamaki Mizuki–related publication (natural sounds and music content)
Performed at the live event “Yorubon” at Gallery “Gasbon Metabolism”
Performing Van Gogh in Arles, Southern France! Takashi Kokubo Concert “Van Gogh and Arles”
In connection with the exhibition “Ryuichi Sakamoto Tribute — Music / Art / Media,” a live festival centered on Micro Ambient Music will be presented.
Ultra-Ancient Future Music “JOMON DIVA — Rite of Creation”
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)
