Born in Osaka in 1972; Kazuya Ishigami is a composer, sound designer, sound performer and sound engineer. He earned a bachelor’s degree in music engineering at the Osaka University of Arts and a master’s degree in urban informatics at Osaka City University. As a child he was already making cut-up and collage pieces with a tape recorder; from 1990 to 1994 he worked with musique concrète and electronic music, from 1992 he performed under the name DARUIN, and since 1994 he has composed and improvised with the computer, among other things with the programming language Max/MSP. In 1995 he joined the noise unit Billy?, and in 1997 he studied electroacoustic composition at INA-GRM in Paris. He runs the independent label NEUS-318 and has released more than a hundred works; his music has been presented in Germany by Deutschlandradio and Westdeutscher Rundfunk as well as in Japan, France, Mexico, Italy and the USA. On the Cybele album DEGEM Vol. 9 – Orpheus 400 (2007) he is represented with “Kerberos” (2007).
Kazuya Ishigami
Composer
