How did you start making music?

"I would see my older brother,  Matirog, making original songs with his synthesizers everyday.  It was then that I realized I could also make songs by myself.  When I was a senior in high school, there was a music contest in which we competed for the theme song of the school festival.  With five other friends we made a song titled “For Two Days”.  The song didn’t get the first prize, but the experience made me realize that creating music is fun.

In the fall of 2000, when I was a freshman at college, I bought music scores and a computer and started to seriously learn about song structures how to create MIDI data.

In the summer of 2001, I added Audio Loop Sequencer to my audio creative system.  I also learned the method of creating music by editing sampled sound material.

Between 2002 and 2004, I formed a musical unit with Matirog.  We performed our music regularly at a club called CAVE, located in Otsuka, Tokyo.

In spring 2005, I started promoting the songs of Sorasubaru, which is my solo project, on the Internet by registering them on (various) music distribution sites so that people around the world (not just in Japan) could listen to my songs.  The sites (that you can find my songs) include Yamaha Player's Paradise and Sony acidplanet.com and the Japanese (domestic) sites include muzie, mF247, and Yamaha Player's Kingdom." 

What are your interests besides music production?

"I’m interested in managing events and volunteer work. I’m also interested in the educational field."

What genres of music do you usually listen to?

"I listen to techno, trance, house, electronica, glitch, noise, and such.  When I listen to the music I concentrate on its “sound”.  Of course I listen to (regular) pop music too."

What do you do for a living?

"Aside from creating musical pieces for the Deux Ex Machina project, I make (original) songs for Sorasubaru, ΔΦ (the unit with Matirog), and handle the public relations (of these projects).

From around the summer of 2006, I will be the administrative manager covering all matters in Japan for a small NGO group called Pippala Scholarship, which supports students living in the northeastern part of Thailand. Currently I’m in charge of renewing their website.

During April through October, I teach Japanese at a nurses’ training school every year.  I’m 24 and the students’ average age is 28.  (Because they’re older), when I teach I need to become sensitive about how I use my Japanese, but nevertheless the job is very rewarding."

What is your dream (that you’d like to realize in the future)?

"My dream is to hold a concert at a big stadium, and I’ll do the over-all planning.  My brother Matirog will be the main act. I will invite all my family members, teachers, friends and the musicians I worked with and have fun with them."

What is music to you?

"To me, music can become medicine or poison (depending on the situation). Music is the “language” by which I express myself. "

Why did you end up taking part in this project?

"Mr. Ramon C. Barros, Jr. listened to my songs registered on the Yamaha Player’s Paradise and he sent me a message and approached me."

What does this project mean to you?

"Before meeting with Mr. Barros,  I had no experience arranging pop songs. So by doing this, I thought I could develop my musical skills much more."

What are you good at besides making music?

"Observing people’s behaviors; coordinating volunteers."

What did you study at college? And what was the theme of your graduation thesis?

"At college, I studied Chinese literature and Japanese language education (i.e., skills of teaching Japanese to non-Japanese speakers). Other than that, I studied for the teacher’s certificate at the high-school level in teaching Japanese.  I was interested in the behaviors (that appear) in our daily conversations, so my graduation thesis was titled “A Study of ‘Chiming in’ to Japanese”."

 "When I arrange music, these are the things I always keep in mind: to use sounds that can envision a picture, and not to use sounds that are too conventional.  I aim to build coexistence between electronic music and ethnic music."

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