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Morimoto Lab
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A lab that approaches sound scientifically from many angles, from acoustics to organology, asking why humans make music.
AboutAbout the lab
Music as the study of sound
At the Morimoto Lab, students learn to investigate scientifically why humans make music and why music moves them emotionally.
Music is an accumulation of human auditory perception and practical know-how, and understanding how it has changed and evolved requires a multifaceted approach.
In addition to the methods of modern science such as acoustics and psychoacoustics, the lab also studies musical instruments and compositional methods.
By listening closely, working with their hands, and making sound, students think about the future of music and sound culture.
Key terms
- Acoustics
- The study that treats physically how sound is generated, travels through space, and reaches the ear
- Psychoacoustics
- A field that investigates how the same sound is heard and perceived by people
- Organology
- A field that collects and classifies instruments from all times and places and traces their mechanisms and origins
NewsLab news
Associate Professor Morimoto publishes a single-author book, Ongaku (音学)
Associate Professor Morimoto co-authors Music Production: Programming, Mathematics, and Art
ResearchResearch themes
At the Morimoto Lab, students think broadly about music, past and present, East and West, and learn through practice. The lab also studies the music technology that supports musical expression, whether old or new.
*Illustrative imageWorks made of scent and sound
The lab teams up with a scent artist and adds sound to a sculptural work that delivers scent through airflow. It creates works that offer an unprecedented experience in which scent and sound overlap.
*Illustrative imageComposition that does not separate sound from music
The lab has compiled in a book an approach that incorporates "sound" and "music," which have tended to be treated separately, into composition itself without dividing them. Based on this approach, it creates and presents new works.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorYota Morimoto
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Organ interior (organ pipes)” Bartłomiej Bulicz / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Works made of scent and sound: “A Suma-perfume by Coty.1” DDupard / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Composition that does not separate sound from music: “M³ (the sound in between invisible and visible), 64m³ (2017), Sound Room @Asia Culture Center, GRAYCODE(Taebok Cho)” Wikixxzz / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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