Sound Design

iPhone / iPod Touch applications

iPhone / iPod Touch applications:“Hello Eddy! La Seine!”, “Chacra VORTEX” (supervised by Mikazuki Tama), “Hello Eddy!”, “Oedo Emikuji”, and “ORGANIC RELAX”.

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2009

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2026/02

Media & Book

Designing with Sound

Release date: February 12, 2026 A sound environment designer reveals the secrets of sound for the first time.

2025/11

Live & Event

1st ION Forest Retreat

The 1st ION Forest Retreat was held on November 11–12, 2025.

2025/11

Media & Book

Don’t sleep through life! (Rebroadcast)

NHK "Don’t sleep through life! "(Rebroadcast)“Why does the earthquake early warning on mobile phones sound like that?”

2025/05

Live & Event

GAIAPHILIA — Additional Release Live Performance Announced

An additional live performance celebrating the release of GAIAPHILIA, the collaborative album by Yumiko Morioka & Takashi Kokubo

2025/04

Live & Event

"GaiaphiIia” release party

“Gaiaphilia” — Japan-Exclusive CD Release Party

2025/03

Music

Gaiaphilia

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.

2025/01

Live & Event

The Manchinsaketen Live

“Tree of Life” — Takashi Kokubo & Naoki Tate Live at Manchin Saketen

2025/

Sound Design

USEN BGV Service

Environmental video content provided for the USEN BGV service

2024/08

Live & Event

2nd GAS Bon Odori Festival

2016

Forest Healing – Stress Reset

A refreshing healing CD where forest soundscapes and music soothe the mind and ease stress and anxiety.

2014

Healing Forest – Finland

A healing CD + Blu-ray work featuring the forests and lakes of Finland, delivering relaxation through imagery and music.

2014

Drug-Free Music Therapy – For Better Sleep

An album designed to ease insomnia and shallow sleep through natural 1/f fluctuations captured by Takashi Kokubo.

2013

Water Healing～beauty Treatment Music

A healing and invigorating album produced by Takashi Kokubo, integrating water sounds and the natural rhythm of 1/f fluctuations.

2013

Your room becomes a healing cosmic space.

A collection of healing music themed around the cosmos. Takashi Kokubo’s transparent sound transforms an ordinary room into a quiet, luminous “sonic universe.”

2012

JAPAN COMFORT

A healing work that renders Japan’s archetypal landscapes in sound. Takashi Kokubo’s gentle sonic textures restore a sense of “quiet Japan” to the heart.

2010

Miho Okai — “Fairyland ~Healing Orgel~” is a healing ambient work that invites the listener into a gentle “fairyland” through the quiet resonance of the music box. A refined sonic world that brings calm and spaciousness to the heart.

2010

Little Cafe Style1〜Cafe Latte

Produced by Takashi Kokubo, Little Cafe Style 1 —Cafe Latte delivers gentle café music that brings relaxation and small moments of happiness into everyday life.

2008

Sound of the Earth vol.10 「The Wild Earth」[Africa]

“Poetry of the Earth,” Africa edition. Horizons, wildlife breath, flamingo swarms, nocturnal hyenas, and the pulse of the Maasai captured in 3D.

2025/

USEN BGV Service

Environmental video content provided for the USEN BGV service

2024/

In Search of Light

White Stone Gallery Ginza New Building — Clément Denis “In Search of Light” (Environmental Music), Tokyo, Ginza

2024/

ORATIO

“ORATIO ~ Prayer of the West, Prayer of the East” (Theater Music), Nerima Cultural Center, Tokyo

2023/

Film “Magone” — Yasuhiko Tsuchida, “Crossroads of Fate”

Research and film music composition for Yasuhiko Tsuchida’s film “Crossroads of Fate” (Magone).

2023/

Yokohama City “Sound Logo”

Production and implementation of the Yokohama City sound logo.

2022

Flower ~ Blossoms of Resonating Cultures

Min-On performance “Flower ~ Blossoms of Resonating Cultures” — Opening Music (Video Music), Nakano Sunplaza Hall, Tokyo

2021/

Live Mahjong!

Online mahjong game “Live Mahjong!” (Game Music)

2020/11

Bugei “ONIKIRI — Blade of Demon-Banishing”

Takashi Kokubo in charge of music for the stage production Bugei “ONIKIRI — Blade of Demon-Banishing”.

2020

JRA Ticket Vending Machines

Produced the audio signage tones for JRA’s automated ticket vending machines.

2025/11

1st ION Forest Retreat

The 1st ION Forest Retreat was held on November 11–12, 2025.

2025/05

GAIAPHILIA — Additional Release Live Performance Announced

An additional live performance celebrating the release of GAIAPHILIA, the collaborative album by Yumiko Morioka & Takashi Kokubo

2025/04

"GaiaphiIia” release party

“Gaiaphilia” — Japan-Exclusive CD Release Party

2025/01

The Manchinsaketen Live

“Tree of Life” — Takashi Kokubo & Naoki Tate Live at Manchin Saketen

2024/08

2nd GAS Bon Odori Festival

2024/06

Yorubon

Performed at the live event “Yorubon” at Gallery “Gasbon Metabolism”

2024/06

Van Gogh and Arles

Performing Van Gogh in Arles, Southern France! Takashi Kokubo Concert “Van Gogh and Arles”

2024/02

Micro Ambient Music

In connection with the exhibition “Ryuichi Sakamoto Tribute — Music / Art / Media,” a live festival centered on Micro Ambient Music will be presented.

2024/01

JOMON DIVA Live

Ultra-Ancient Future Music “JOMON DIVA — Rite of Creation”

2026/02

Designing with Sound

Release date: February 12, 2026 A sound environment designer reveals the secrets of sound for the first time.

2025/11

Don’t sleep through life! (Rebroadcast)

NHK "Don’t sleep through life! "(Rebroadcast)“Why does the earthquake early warning on mobile phones sound like that?”

2023/12

Asahi Shimbun “GLOBE” No. 292

Asahi Shimbun GLOBE No. 292 (newspaper insert) — Contemporary Society Seen Through Sound

2023/12

“Gyu-ee!” — The Master of Healing Sound Who Created Japan’s Mobile Earthquake Early Warning Tone

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

2023/08