Yosi Horikawa

Japanese artist Yosi Horikawa, builds a paracosmic soundscape drawing deeply from his early childhood experiments. His acoustic explorations involve intensive field recordings where he captures the natural environment and other found sounds and compositionally works with these sounds in subtle melodic layers. Often atmospheric, intricate and overlapping in everyday audible phenomena, Yosi’s compositions try to submerge listeners through organic textures and musique-concrète experiments.

Yosi Horikawa is a musician and sound designer who primarily creates music using natural sounds. Horikawa has released several EPs and two albums on music labels such as Eklektic Records, First Word Records, and Borrowed Scenery. Growing up in Osaka, Horikawa started making music at the age of 12 using everyday items in the absence of instruments. He sought things that sounded good in his environment, such as rice boxes, instant noodle cups, and chopsticks, recording them with his tape decks. Horikawa’s main influences included New Jack Swing, West Coast Hip-Hop, Pete Rock, Teddy Riley, and DJ Premier. At the age of 18, he moved to Tokyo to study architecture and acoustics.