Toshiya Tsunoda is a Yokohama based artist and composer. Toshiya has been prolific in the experimental arts community for over two decades. Born in 1964 in Kanagawa, Japan, he studied oil painting at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, where he received an MFA. In 1994, he co-founded and ran the recording label WrK, releasing experimental sound art pieces, and he currently runs the labels Skiti and edition.t.

Toshiya’s recorded works often take the form of untainted field recordings. His Extract from Field Recording Archive series documents vibrations through solid objects and air, and his CD Ridge of Undulation features minimally processed recorded landscapes and vibrations, with sparse sine waves.

Toshiya has released collaborations with Seijiro Murayama, Taku Sugimoto, and most recently Michael Pisaro, among many others.

Toshiya is included in Soundings, MoMA’s first major exhibition of sound art, running August through November 2013.

The Wire: Read an extended version of Will Montgomery’s Cross Platform article on Japanese sound artist Toshiya Tsunoda, master of the art of field recording.

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