Masako Yokouchi
Masako Yokouchi is a sound artist and composer working with field recordings, radio, and electroacoustic music. With training in classical piano and cello, she works across improvisation, environmental recording, and experimental sound practices. Her work often moves through layered, shifting sonic situations where recording and composition blur into one another.
Under the project Sonotant, she creates compositions that combine acoustic instruments, digital processing, and recordings of everyday environments such as streets, rooms, and public spaces. These works explore how recorded sounds evoke specific places and moments, and how they subtly shift when placed in new contexts, often overlapping rather than remaining separate.
Her recent projects focus on radio as a space for connecting different locations and time periods. She brings together archival audio and contemporary recordings to create situations where distant places can be heard together, as if they briefly occupy the same acoustic space. Her work has been presented in performances, broadcasts, and installations, including a project at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford.
She also teaches piano and music at the Preparatory Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College, CUNY.
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