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Born in Tokyo 1971, studied musicology at the Kunitachi College of Music, graduating in 1996. During this period he began to play the electronic pieces by John Cage and his own sound performances. Since then he has been creating sound performances, installations and videos. In 2003 Morimoto moved to Berlin, has performed and exhibited in many international festivals including transmediale in Berlin, Experimental Music Festival in Munich. He is interested in the uncertain acoustic appearances between usual objects, for example water and stones, and the technical medium.
Morimoto has worked with Takehisa Kosugi, Olivier Di Placido, Olaf Hochherz, Ignaz Schick,
Luciano Maggiore, Crys Cole, Felicity Mangan, Alessandra Eramo, Nicolas Wiese, Seijiro
Murayama, Hannes Lingens, Derek Shirley, Eric Wong, Johnny Chang, Mat Pogo, Katsura
Yamauchi, Makoto Oshiro, Akiko Nakayama, Yan Jun, Mario de Vega, Liz Allbee and many more.
He runs the label emitter micro with Kris Limbach and Pierce Warnecke. Since 2017 he is the
curator of the concert series
Experimentik at Tik in Berlin, Friedrichshain.
1998 Plaited cord / Gallery Floor 2, Tokyo
1999 Distance / Gallery Floor 2, Tokyo
Magpie / Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
Passage / Free Space 3, Tokyo
2002 Yellow Painting / Hino Station, Tokyo
2004 100m Strecke / or'est, Berlin
2005 Nocturne (transmediale.05) / Galerie ZERO, Berlin
2006 Schimmer / petal fugal, Tokyo
2007 Rotes Licht / ausland, Berlin
2009 passage / ohrenhoch, Berlin
2010 Short Summer (Whistle, Minotaure!1) / Grimmuseum, Berlin
floating / mex, Dortmund
waiting for a cup of tea / Shofukan, Rotterdam
Fragments / ohrenhoch, Berlin
2012 Short Summer / Gallery Naprzeciw, Poznan
2015 Weather Report / Kunsthaus Wiesbaden,Wiesbaden
Breathing Garden / Rumpsti Pumsti, Berlin
2018 die Reihe. Beiträge zu auditiver Kunst und Kultur / Universität der Künste + Spektral-Raumohr, Berlin
2019 Breathing Room / Brennerei Zernikow, Brandenburg
2020 Sorrow / Spektral-Raumohr, Berlin
2021 Eternal Moment / C.AR.M.E, Brescia
2022 500 meters stretch / Villa Parco Bolasco, Castelfranco Veneto
Group exhibitions (Selection)
1994 BONUS941211 / Tokyo University, Tokyo
1995 BONUS950827 / Tokyo University, Tokyo
1998 Music and man/ XEBEC, Kobe
2004 DZÜGÜÜÜN / Halle&Galerie DZGN, Berlin
Transitflüstern / Gallery twenty-four, Berlin
2005 Views from abroad [zeitgenössische Kunst aus Japan] / Stadtgalerie, Kiel
Wroclaw Non Stop Festival 2005 / Studio BWA, Wroclaw
2006 DZÜGÜÜÜN / Gallery Grigore Mora, Bukarest
Simultan02 International video/sound experimental festival / Csiky Gergely, Timisoara
2007 48 Stunden Neukölln / Hof148, Berlin
Klangkunstfest Mitte 2007 / Glaskasten, Berlin
2008 farb_laut / Galerie Nord, Berlin
2009 ubiquitous oscillations / General Public, Berlin
2010 VERWERTUNG Interdisciplinary Arts Festival / Stattbad Wedding, Berlin
2011 Emitter Micro Festival 2011 / Emitter19, Berlin
Wir Kinder vom Ueno Zoo / HIGHTI, Tokyo
2013 Radio documenta ! / KUNST ARZT, Kyoto
2014 Case Sparse / Malonno, Italien
2016 Auditiva . thirding-as-othering / Villa Brivio, Milan
2017 Klangkunstfest 2017 / Bibliothek am Luisenbad, Berlin
JNBY Festival n.2 /
JNBY Concept store, Beijing
2018 lab.30 Augsburger Kunstlabor, Augsburg
2020 Windows / Closing Soon, Athen
Concerts, Feativals (Selection)
1993 John Cage sound installation Essay / P3 art and environment, Tokyo
1994 Rolywholyover a Circus John Cage / Art Tower Mito, Mito
1996 Yanaka332 / Iroha Apartment, Tokyo
BONUS961005 / Central Public Hall, Osaka
1997 Happning / Art Tower Mito, Mito
Experimental Music in Japan 60's / Art Tower Mito, Mito
1998 From Cage toward... / Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya
Into Electro Detail / Uplink Factory, Tokyo
1999 John Cage inside Electronics / Free Space 3, Tokyo
Music Factory / Mitaka Kulturzentrum, Tokyo
2004 Juwelen des 3. Jahrtausends: Eröffnung / Schloss Plüschow, Plüschow
Experimentelle Musik 2004 / TU-Mensa, München
2005 KELLER KNISTERN / Neue Bohnen, Berlin
Wyobraznia EKRANU / NRD, Torun
2006 Look at Music / Neues Kunsthaus, Ahrenshoop
Experimentelle Musik 2006 / TU-Mensa, München
2007 THEALTER International / Old Synagogue, Szeged
bipolar / HAU2, Berlin
2008 Styrofoam Cuts and Oscillations Japonaise (transmediale.08) / M12, Berlin
where is the edge now, yeah? / Electronic Church, Berlin
2009 INCUDINE records / Neon Campobase, Bologna
2010 echtzeitmusiktage 2010 / ausland, Berlin
All Ears Music Festival / Wolfart Projectspaces, Rotterdam
2011 Lunga notte in ascolto / Bologna Modern Art Museum, Bologna
ad libitum X [sic!] / Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw
CAGE TEST / ausland, Berlin
2012 emihal / Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
Who wants to be holy? / deSingel, Antwerp
JCCE2012 / Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto
Q-O2 / Beursschouwburg, Brussels
2013 Emitter Micro Festival 2013 / Naherholung Sternchen, Berlin
Avantgarde Festival
/ Schiphorst
The Variable Series / O', Milano
Experimentelle Musik 2013 / Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich
2014 Kyoto Protocol / NK Project, Berlin
Experimentelle Musik 2014 / Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich
2016 AVALON / VACANT, Tokyo
FRIV Festival / Centrum Amarant, Poznań
2017 Saline / Cervia, Italy
SOLO:DUO:TRIO #4 / OTO Project Space, London
Experimentelle Musik 2017 / Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich
2018 ame artsit in residence / 21 Market Place, Huddersfield / UK
2019 Performing Trajectories / Petersburg Art Space, Berlin
2020 blurred edges 2020 / Faktor, Hamburg
2021 SUBETE WO WASURERO / Banlieues Bleues - La Dynamo / Pantin
2022 Experimental Music Festival 2022 / DomagkAteliers / Munich
Grants
2006 Künstlerhaus Lukas, Ahrenshoop
2016 composition and sound art stipends, Berlin Senate Chancellery Cultural Affairs
2020 working stipends Neustart Kultur, Musikfonds
2021 working stipends Neustart Kultur, GEMA
2022 working stipends Neustart Kultur, Musikfonds
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