Music Production for Visual Works at the “Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History”
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.
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)
A refreshing healing CD where forest soundscapes and music soothe the mind and ease stress and anxiety.
A healing CD + Blu-ray work featuring the forests and lakes of Finland, delivering relaxation through imagery and music.
An album designed to ease insomnia and shallow sleep through natural 1/f fluctuations captured by Takashi Kokubo.
A healing and invigorating album produced by Takashi Kokubo, integrating water sounds and the natural rhythm of 1/f fluctuations.
A collection of healing music themed around the cosmos. Takashi Kokubo’s transparent sound transforms an ordinary room into a quiet, luminous “sonic universe.”
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.
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.
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.
“Poetry of the Earth,” Africa edition. Horizons, wildlife breath, flamingo swarms, nocturnal hyenas, and the pulse of the Maasai captured in 3D.
A sonic prayer that binds the stillness of the sea and the silence of the cosmos. Gentle waves and stellar resonance by Takashi Kokubo invite the listener into an eternal quiet.
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.
Produced by Stomu Yamashita, Tempest is a dramatic sonic work themed around storms, with Takashi Kokubo supporting the soundscape on synthesizer.
Mineaki Hotta’s Chiang Mai Dreaming blends kalimba tones with natural soundscapes, creating a nostalgic and meditative sonic environment.