Yu Kuwabara | Time Abyss (2019-20) for 17 musicians divided in 2 groups (excerpt)
commissioned by International Ensemble Modern Academy in the context of CRESC... Biennale für aktuelle Musik, CRASHKURS HUMAN__MACHINE
recorded live at Albert-Schweitzer-Schule Offenbach, Offenbach am Main, Germany on 1 March 2020
premiered by Enno Poppe (cond) and Ensemble Modern
awarded The 31st Yasushi Akutagawa Suntory Award for Music Composition

桑原ゆう｜タイム・アビス (2019-20) 17人の奏者による2群のアンサンブルのための（抜粋）
2020年3月1日 @アルベルト・シュバイツァー・スクール・オッフェンバッハ（オッフェンバッハ・アム・マイン／ドイツ）
cresc...現代音楽ビエンナーレ「クラッシュコース ヒューマン＿マシン」
演奏｜エンノ・ポッペ（指揮）、アンサンブル・モデルン
第31回芥川也寸志サントリー作曲賞受賞作品

Time Abyss (2019-20, expt.) for 17 musicians divided in 2 groups

Composer, pianist, & professor.
Omotesenke (表千家) tea ceremony's student

Wataru MUKAI: Composer, Pianist.
 
A native of Japan, WATARU MUKAI (b.1993) was first introduced to musical composition at the age of three, and began his first composition lessons in one of the Yamaha Music Programs one year later.
 
He also has composed for a variety of arts, such as movies and theatrical art.
He was awarded scholarships from the Rohm music foundation(2019-2020), the Kuma foundation(2018-2019), 4th Japan Public-Private Partnership Student Study Abroad Program(2016-17), the Munetsugu-Tokuji music foundation(2016) and a full national scholarship at Tokyo university of the Arts/Geidai (2012-2014).
 
He gains several international awards: 1st Prize at International Composer's Competition OgMB(2nd prize was not awarded), 1st Prize at 8th International composer's competition "NEW NOTE" Croatia 2019, 2nd Prize and Jury's special award at 3rd Senzoku Contemporary Composition Competition (Orchestra department), 3rd at the 29th Siegburg Composition Competition, 2nd and Iwatani award(Audience award) at the 84th Music Competition of Japan, Finalist at the 27th Akutagawa Composition Award, 2nd prize at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Conservatory competition 2018〈Electronics: Johnathan Schmieding〉, Impronta Edition Prize at 1st Impronta Ensemble Composition Competition 2019, Ataka music prize (2015) and Acanthus music prize (2016).
 
His works have been selected for the 44th Samobor Music Festival(Croatia), the Darmstadt International Summer Courses 2018(Germany) and the Suntory Hall Summer Festival 2017(Tokyo), Works performed and commissioned by ensembles/orchestras, notably New Japan Philharmonic, Geidai Philharmonic Orchestra, International Ensemble Modern Academy, TonArt Orchestra, Ensemble REAM, Tokyo Sinfonietta and Senzoku New Philharmonic Orchestra.
 
Wataru graduated at the top of his class from Tokyo university of the Arts/Geidai in 2016. He has studied composition with Midori Okubo, Shirotomo Aizawa, Jo Kondo and Jummei Suzuki, and studies at the Mannheim University of Music and Performing Arts under professor of composition Sidney Corbett and at the Bern University of the Arts under professor of Stefan Wirth, Simon Steen-Andersen, Angela Körfer-Bürger.

b. 1999
composer/komponist
graduated from bachelor, tua(geidai), Tokyo/Japan
03.2023〜 02.2025 Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden (Master, Klasse Prof. Mark Andre & Prof. Dr. Stefan Prins)
03.2025〜 Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart (Konzertexamen, Klasse Prof. Luxa Mart*in Schüttler)

I love making music that soothes, inspires, and rejuvenates. Downtempo, chilled Lo-fi, non-AI music set to hip hop, pop, and jazz beats. Lover of Boom Bap.

My creative journey began as a visual artist, and now I'm concentrating my energy into creating music that can instantly impact minds and moods for the better. 

Almost all of my music is chill @ -100 bpm to hopefully stimulate calm and feelings of well-being in listeners as it does for me. 💙

I don’t use AI or samples. My music is original, digital, and composed using a MIDI keyboard and DAW. I also record live LoFi audio of ambient sounds such as birdsongs or rainstorms using an iPhone or a microphone connected to laptop.

A helpful tool to evaluate whether music is AI or human: www.submithub.com/ai-song-checker

I’ve been called Rebecca of Sunnybrook like the children’s book because of my birth name but call me Beck like my friends do. I chose Sunnybeck to use as my nickname as I’m an eternal optimist and love the sun.

sunnybeckmusic @ gmail.com