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Spatial Training performed by Shohei Amimori + Hideki Umezawa + Tomoko Hojo in a frame of the performance festival YPAM, Yokohama, Japan. LISTEN        

    Hojo Tomoko’s work during her residency was based on research on the ‘Jomon Koto’ (Jomon harp), a spatula-shaped wooden object excavated at the Korekawa Nakai site in Hachinohe city, Aomori prefecture. The object is believed to be the oldest surviving string instrument in the world, but the way it was played on r … Read more

Album Touch was released on December 3 2021 through Dragon Eyes Recording. Listen Apple Music or TIDAL  & Buy Track Listing: Alexandra Spence – Communion KMRU – Its not a tangency Viv Corringham – Imagine myself walking with you Myriam Van Imschoot + Federico Protto – Human Measures Tomoko Hojo – fall asleep Melissa Pons – Three Mastering: Lawrence English Organised by … Read more

walking piece 2021 — a handmade sound postcard, made of Washi, traditional Japanese paper, produced by Japanese-Swiss sound art collective Tomoko Hojo+Rahel Kraft. When you press the button embedded in the card, tiny audio work would be played. This product is based on their past sound walk piece “Grass Eater Diary”, which was also released as … Read more

  Recently I found a special bell at my home, where a buddhist temple lasts more than 500 years. This delicate bell is made of a copper alloy with traces of silver, and only used when a buddhist monk and its partner are passed away, in front of their dead bodies with chanting. In other … Read more

Invited as a guest composer for the Music From Japan Festival 2021, I had a solo concert at Scandinavia House, New York on 6th of March 2021. Presented works are four in total, including two newly created works under the influence of Covid 19; Hover Over Man and Woman(2020), Distance (2021), touch (2020) and I … Read more

‘Assorted Sounds’ was organised by composer Francesca Le Lohé and sound artist Tomoko Hojo. With guests Atsumi Kojima (sho) and Chiho Oka (sound artist), we presented new work and improvisational performances. The basic idea behind this concert was to create a space in which artists and composers can share work in progress or try new … Read more

This four-channel sound installation “Whiff,” is inspired by the space of a former library. From the empty space that devoid not only of books but even bookshelves, one can hardly sense the remnants of the days it had functioned as a library. What kind of “books” and “people” used to inhabit this space, and what … Read more

The world’s first audio recording of a Japanese woman was made in Berlin in 1901. It was the voice of the former geisha and actress Kawakami Sadayakko, who travelled to Europe and the United States three times, starting in 1899, as a member of Theater Kawakami Otojiro. Sadayakko, who was abruptly placed in the role … Read more