Live events in March

Here is some (belated) updates on some upcoming events I’ll be participating in this month.

Next week on Wednesday March 29th I'll be doing a short talk on sound studies for Y+L Projects's Y+L Invites series. These are always fun communal events and I'm really excited to be doing one.

There is a slight cap on attendees so if you're coming along please fill out the form below.

3月29日にY+L Projects主宰のイベントで音と作曲について話します。英語になりますが、様々な国からのクリエイターたちが気軽に集まって交流するイベントなのでぜひ遊びに来てください。

参加していただく場合は参加の旨を以下のフォームからお知らせください。

Details: https://ylprojects.medium.com/y-l-invites-3-introduction...

（日本語：https://note.com/ylprojects/n/n8f32d2f9593c）

Attendance form: https://bit.ly/YLInvites_Marty

I’ll be performing a solo set at this event on March 31 at Forestlimit.

Human Electric
人間の身体を駆使した電子音の演奏会

2023.3.31 @Forestlimit

2500 yen + one drink order

open 18:00

18:30 Hiroshi Murakami 村上　裕　

19:00 Marty Hicks

19:40 Fu Sakai

20:20 Sam Stoker　

21:00 EMB & Sage Morei

21:40 Momose Yasunaga

22:20 special session

23:00 〜close Autumn Rice Field

New music for 2022

I’m pleased to announce some new music of mine being released this year, both single-track collaborations for different labels: a remix of Ben Haydie’s “Human” with my longtime cohort Michiru Aoyama on “Molecules Remixed Part 1“, released on Mango Alley; and an original track adapted from some sounds by Gallery Six for Ambientologist’s third instalment of the Sustain Series.

I’m very happy with how these two pieces of music ended up - a lot of love and labor went into them - so do give them a listen.

Music & sound design for wooden speaker company KINPEI

I had a memorable experience scoring & sound designing a beautiful video for Kinpei (kinpei.jp), a new speaker company that is developing speakers made almost entirely from trees. I went with the production team down to Mie to meet the innovator Kinpei-san, where I recorded a plethora of forest and nature sounds that ended up in the video. Thank you to the team at Mr+Positive Tokyo and Kinpei/PDC for getting me involved with this wonderful project!
ユニークで美しい、木製のスピーカーを製造している会社KINPEIの新しいPR映像で音楽＆サウンドデザインを担当させていただきました。プロダクションチームの一員として三重県まで旅をしてイノベーターの横濱金平さんにお会いし、森の音や金平さんのお話しなどを録音しました。映像で使った音はほぼ全部現地で録って加工したもの。

一生に一回ぐらいとても貴重な経験で、チームの皆さんに感謝しています。

【Credits】
・Innovator : kinpei yokohama
・Planning+Design:PRODUCT DESIGN CENTER https://productdesigncenter.jp/kinpei
・Logo Design, Graphic Design: DK
・Photographer: Yusuke Abe (YARD)
・Movie : Mr+Positive Tokyo https://www.mrpositive.work/
・Director : Connor Gilhooly
・Director of Photography : Toshihiko Kizu (CONNECTION)
・AC : Masanori Yokota
・Gaffer : Daiki Takai
・Colorist : Abe Wynen (Crayon)
・Sound design : Marty Hicks
・Executive Producer : Peter Grasse (Mr+Positive)
・Producer : Yukika Tasaki (Mr+Positive)
・Production Manager : Stephanie Kha (Mr+Positive)