Koji Asano is creating an original world of music through his use of various instruments. This electroacoustic-music is distinguished by its lack of constraint and free style. More of 30 titles of CD works are so wide-ranged from Computers, Solo Piano, Guitar Bands, Experimental electronics to Strings, his group Koji Asano Ensemble in Tokyo. Besides album works, he also produces original sound tracks for dance performances, films, Video art. Collaborated with sculptors and painters for series exhibitions in Moscow, Puskin and Latvia in 1997, also composed the string quartet piece for Bruno Letort's project "Megapoles" performed by The Smith Quartet at Vingtieme theatre in Paris last June 1999. He is requested by Banda Municipal de Barcelona to compose new orchestra piece which will be shown at L'Espai in October 2001.
Over the past six years, composer Koji Asano has explored the beauty and the terror of experimental sound on more of 30 self-produced CDs for his Barcelona-based label Solstice. An adept pianist and guitarist, Koji Asano has improvised solo concerts and played noisy, altrock-ishi instrumental tunes in various combos throughout Europe.
He's fond of interfacing new technology like computer-aided tone-generation/filtering and digital delay effects with traditional acoustic instruments such as piano, guitars and string quartets, and is equally attracted to pure improvisation and tightly structured pieces, in both acoustic or electronic formats.
Living in Barcelona now for more projects and concerts in all Europe.

http://www.kojiasano.com

• Solstice (CD, Solstice, 1995)
• Caffeine (CD, Solstice, 1995)
• Gravity (CD, Solstice, 1996)
• Pheromone (CD, Solstice, 1996)
• Celeste (CD, Solstice, 1997)
• Fret (CD, Solstice, 1997)
• Takoyaki-Kun: The Greatest Hits (CDr limited edition, Solstice, 1997)
• You Can't Open The Door Because It's Already Open (CD, Solstice, 1998)
• Vacant Land (CD, Solstice, 1998)
• Sunshine Filtering Through Foliage (CD, Solstice, 1999)
• Monsoon (CD, Solstice, 1999)
• Avalanches (CD, Solstice, 1999)
• Estación (CDr limited edition, Solstice, 1999)
• Flow-Augment (CD, Solstice, 2000)
• Preparing For April (CD, Solstice, 2000)
• Momentum (CD, Solstice, 2000)
• A Secret Path Of Rain (CD, Solstice, 2000)
• Live At Rhiz 2000 (CDr limited edition, Solstice, 2000)
• Wind Gauge (CDr limited edition, Solstice, 2000)
• The Last Shade Of Evening Falls 1/4 (CD, Solstice, 2000)
• The Last Shade Of Evening Falls 2/4 (CD, Solstice, 2000)
• The Last Shade Of Evening Falls 3/4 (CD, Solstice, 2000)
• The Last Shade Of Evening Falls 4/4 (CD, Solstice, 2000)
• The Last Shadow Of Evening Falls (CDr limited edition, Solstice, 2000)
• Quoted Landscape (CD, Solstice, 2001)
• Autumn Meadow (CD, Solstice, 2001)
• The End Of August (CD, Solstice, 2001)
• A Second Dam (CD, Solstice, 2001)
• Spirit Of The Wardrobe (CD, Solstice, 2001)
• Crevasses (CD, Solstice, 2001)
• Spherical Moss Factory (CD, Solstice, 2002)
• January Rainbow (CD, Solstice, 2002)
• Suite for Organ and Recorders No.1 "The Alien Power Plant" (CD, Solstice, 2002)
• Absurd Summer (CD, Solstice, 2003)
• Piano Suite Vol.1 Fitness Club (No.1-20) (CD, Solstice, 2003)
• Gondola Odyssey (CD, Solstice, 2003)
• Zoo Telepathy (CD, Solstice, 2003)
• Wind Gauge (CD, Solstice, 2003)
• The Giant Squid (A Collection Of Short Pieces Vol.1/Works from 1997-1998) (CD, Solstice, 2003)
• Koji Asano Live - Loop-Line Japan Tour 2004 (DVD, Asano Production, 2004)
• Sanctuary On Reclaimed Land (CD, Solstice, 2005)
• Takoyakikun (CD, Solstice, 2005)
• Final Insurance - Collection Vol. 2: 1992-1994 (CD, Solstice, 2005)
• Spring Estuary (CD, Solstice, 2005)
• Rabbit Room Reservation Center (CD, Solstice, 2005)
• Violin and Viola Suites No.1-No.7 (CD, Solstice, 2006)
• Ensemble DENEB: Baroque Ensemble No.1-No.5 (CD, Solstice, 2006)
• Trio Suites No.1-No.3 (CD, Solstice, 2006)

"Asano stays clear of the Metal Machine Music purging noise approach of the Merzbow/Hijokaidan faction, opting instead to stack small clicks and whirs into three-dimensional, slightly claustrophobic soundboxes." (David Keenan - THE WIRE)

"Modulation and processing of sound waves in real time. A work set in the early days of analogic electronics which, contemplated many years later, in the midst of the digital era, regains interest due to the diversity offered by processes based on quantities. Languages constructed through modification and contrast." (Pedro López - HURLY BURLY)

"The character one can perceive in this meaningful fluxes of sound invites to a training and rescue listening. This very flickerings weave in and out of silence, thus turning it into a main plane, something like a sampling of the sound environment revealed in angular timbric peculiarities. superimposed on the staticism of an abstract void which generates its own movement." (Jesús Gutierrez - HURLY BURLY)

"In two years, the Barcelona-based Japanesecomposer Koji Asano has chumed out 21 albums, ranging from gorgeous piano meditations and chamber music, through process oriented acoustic clatter and computer noise, to very quiet field recordings. hi latest offering is a dense piece of computer generated minimalism that spirals through multiple layers of eerie feedback hiss." (Jim Haynes - THE WIRE)