SPEAKERS

Masayuki KAGEI

Composer, Sound Artist

Born in 1981 in Hokkaido. KAGEI is a composer who creates abstract sonic spaces with “light” at the core. Fascinated by the starry skies during his childhood, he believed in the ability to communicate with the stars through sound. He developed a musical interest by observing the birds and insects that sing in nature. He explores the expansion of realms of beauty that can only be reached through music by combining multiple performances of various ethnic and self-made instruments, as well as computer-generated sounds.
In 2021, he was responsible for the music production of the TOKYO 2020 Olympic Opening Ceremony. In 2022, he served as the art director for the Hokkaido Shimamaki Village Project under the Ministry of the Environment’s LBOV promotion project. He devised and created an ocean plastic speaker utilizing plastic waste collected from the coastline. He is affiliated with the dance company OrganWorks, led by Shintaro Hirahara, where he composes and supervises music for major works. He has composed music for numerous contemporary dance productions and presented stage works in Japan, South Korea, Israel, Spain, Belgium, and France. He actively collaborates with artists and companies from various fields, including choreographers, directors, Japanese Noh performers, visual artists, and filmmakers, both in Japan and abroad.