Hiroshi Yoshimura

Japanese composer central to kankyo ongaku (environmental music), pairing sound with everyday space and pace.

Type: Person
Subjects: Sound Space Perception

Hiroshi Yoshimura (1940-2003) was a Japanese composer whose home-recorded, unhurried keyboard-based music helped define kankyo ongaku, or environmental music — sound conceived to inhabit and shape everyday space rather than demand focused listening.

Works in the Library

Hiroshi Yoshimura RELEASE 1987
Flora
Hiroshi Yoshimura's 1987 album of unhurried, environmental keyboard music.
SOUND SPACE PERCEPTION
- Bandcamp
Hiroshi Yoshimura RELEASE 1986
Green
Hiroshi Yoshimura's 1986 album, recorded at his home studio over the winter of 1985-86.
SOUND SPACE PERCEPTION
- Bandcamp
Hiroshi Yoshimura RELEASE 1982
Music for Nine Post Cards
Hiroshi Yoshimura's 1982 debut album, home-recorded, that helped define kankyo ongaku (environmental music).
SOUND SPACE PERCEPTION
- Discogs
Hiroshi Yoshimura RELEASE 1986
Surround
Hiroshi Yoshimura's 1986 album of environmental keyboard music.
SOUND SPACE PERCEPTION
- Bandcamp