Masahiko Sunami – Media Artist

Masahiko Sunami

As an electronic music composer and media artist, my primary interests lie in the following areas:

  • Creating an immersive soundscape / listening environment
  • Physical and psychological effects of sound
  • Computer as a musical instrument
  • Semiotics of music and noise
  • Combining computational and stochastic processes with musical improvisation

Using textures as building blocks for my music, I create a meditative soundscape in my compositions that often challenge my audience’s listening abilities and invite them to pay closer attention to the sound that surrounds them. I have mastered programming in Max/MSP to create new sonic and visual environments, and turn computers into an interactive musical instrument that I perform with.

My teachers include Mark Trayle, Morton Subotnick, Tom Erbe, Todd Winkler, Kwaku Kwaakye Obeng, Kobla Ladzekpo, Rajeev Taranath, I Nyoman Wenten, and I Dewa Putu Berata.