Takashi Kokubo’s studio SAGE, located in Hokuto City, Yamanashi Prefecture, is now equipped for fully immersive streaming performances using a 12-speaker spatial audio system. To mark the upgrade, a mini concert will be streamed online. We invite you to experience it on YouTube.

Streaming Date: September 23, 2022 — 19:00 (JST)
Duration: approx. 30 minutes
Free Access: https://youtu.be/76EQ46ES-58

Takashi Kokubo & Andrea Esperti

Performers
• Takashi Kokubo: synthesizers, crystal bowls, percussion, field recordings
• Andrea Esperti: trombone, percussion

Situated deep in the forests of Hokuto, the log-house studio STUDIO ION has been renovated into an immersive sound studio featuring a 12-speaker Dolby Atmos spatial system and now supports live streaming.

The concert’s immersive ambient music will be performed through the 12-speaker system and captured using Kokubo’s Cyberphonic recording system. When experienced through headphones, viewers will be able to enjoy a highly realistic, concert-hall–like sense of immersion as though physically present in the space.

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