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Sound Scapes/Oto No Aru Fuukei-

Takashi Kokubo combines natural field recordings from 50 countries with cutting-edge visual technology. 5.1ch surround Blu-ray.

2021/06

Media & Book

The Great New Ambient Wave-BBC Sound

Sunday Feature-Tranquility Inc -The Great New Ambient Wave-BBC Sound

Sound Design

Live Mahjong!

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

GAIA -BREATHING MIX- (3D-Somesthesia Sound)2021

Final installment of the Brain-Fitness series. GAIA infrasonic mix. Birds and water with synths drifting through space. Cyberphonic recording, headphones recommended.

VALIS　(3D-Somesthesia Sound)Remastered 2021

Brain-Fitness, 2nd Volume. Fractal soundfields that regulate the nervous system. Cyberphonic recording. Headphones recommended.

GIGA　(3D-Somesthesia Sound)Remastered 2021

Brain-Fitness Trilogy Vol.1. DNA-helix themed 3D sound to activate the brain. Headphones recommended. Includes “EVOLUTION IN URBANLIFE.”

2020/11

Sound Design

Bugei “ONIKIRI — Blade of Demon-Banishing”

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

2020/11

Media & Book

How old,ambient Japanese music become a smash hit on YouTube

How old,ambient Japanese music become a smash hit on YouTube.Exploring the comment-section emotion of music as a mysterious algorithm.

2020/08

Media & Book

“Hatsumimi Alarm” Release Confirmed! (MBS Mainichi Broadcasting)

Takashi Kokubo takes on the challenge: “Can a sound designer create a wake-up alarm that guarantees you’ll wake up?”

2025/03

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.

2023/05

MAGONE

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.

2023/02

Music For A Cosmic Garden

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.

2021/07

Sound Scapes/Oto No Aru Fuukei-

Takashi Kokubo combines natural field recordings from 50 countries with cutting-edge visual technology. 5.1ch surround Blu-ray.

GAIA -BREATHING MIX- (3D-Somesthesia Sound)2021

Final installment of the Brain-Fitness series. GAIA infrasonic mix. Birds and water with synths drifting through space. Cyberphonic recording, headphones recommended.

VALIS　(3D-Somesthesia Sound)Remastered 2021

Brain-Fitness, 2nd Volume. Fractal soundfields that regulate the nervous system. Cyberphonic recording. Headphones recommended.

GIGA　(3D-Somesthesia Sound)Remastered 2021

Brain-Fitness Trilogy Vol.1. DNA-helix themed 3D sound to activate the brain. Headphones recommended. Includes “EVOLUTION IN URBANLIFE.”

2019

KANKYO ONGAKU

Light In The Attic’s Japan Special Edition Becomes Grammy Nominee: Takashi Kokubo and the Definitive Survey of Japanese Ambient

2017

Beautiful Night of the moon

“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.

2020

Hayashi-sensei’s “Hatsumimi Gaku”

TBS Hayashi-sensei’s Hatsumimi Gaku — Produced the “Hatsumimi Alarm” sound.

2019

Off-Theater Kabuki

Off-Theater Kabuki “Onna Goroshi Abura no Jigoku” (Theater Music), Shinjuku FACE, Tokyo / Terada Warehouse G1–5F, Tokyo

2018

KAMORI Wonder Lights – Daichi (The Earth) –

Projection mapping work at the Hokkaido Government Red Brick Building:　“KAMORI Wonder Lights — Daichi (The Earth)” — music for the visuals.

2017

anywhereVR

PlayStation®VR “anywhereVR” — 360° VR video production.

Sasazuka 21 Internal Medicine Pain Clinic

Sasazuka 21 Internal Medicine Pain Clinic (Environmental Music), Tokyo

Hug-kun and the Water Adventure

Music production for the environmental education application “Hug-kun and the Water Adventure” (Game Music)

Sea of Shining Coral Life

Planetarium production “Sea of Shining Coral Life (40-minute version)” (Video Music)