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Most recently, Mamoru has developed a series works "etude" that transforms everyday objects and practices into "sound art" or "means to create sound art" by decoding/recodind them. The works has been shown as installation works, performances, multiples and workshops. For example, it took places at MUMOK(Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien), quartier21(Museum Quartier/Vienna), SHELTEMA(Leiden), La Chambre Blanche(Quebec), Diapason Gallery(New York City), Yuka Contemporary(Tokyo), B-312(Montreal) and various other places in Osaka, Tokyo, Kyoto and other cities. One of his etude performance, no.13 hanging ice, has won the grand prize of EXPERIMENTAL SOUND, ART, AND PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL in 2010 from Tokyo Wonder Site.

In the etude performances, Mamoru, very often, invites audience to participates not only by listening deeply to the sound or integrate audience as an important elemet for the sound work, but with more obvious interaction such as eating together. For example, the etude no.12 variation for eating "Nori paste" is one of the performance that ask people to eat with the artist to produce the sound object. There are other examples that involves drinking as a mean to create work.

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Born in Osaka, Japan in 1977, Mamoru has been playing keyboards instruments since age 7 and has mostly been self-taught.
He moved to New York City in 1996 to study music. There, he was exposed to improvisational and non-Western music. As a result, in 2001, mamoru moved back to Japan after completing B.F.A. program ath The City University of New York to expand and explore these ideas using contemporary instruments and found objects.

He started producing sound installations and improvisational performances as a sound artist, mainly performing at alternative venues, galleries, and museums both within Japan and abroad.

The sound installation involves the idea of "Multi Source Multi Channel" system which uses several independent sound sources, looping with different time cycles, to generate a sound image/time/space that create certain atomosphere but constantly changing.

The performances are also based on similar idea and uses several independent loop samplers that enable Mamoru to improvise and capture the sound at the moment and layer them in time.

Many of the sound source are accoustically generated with found objects or self-build instruments and modified instruments.

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