長嶋 洋一

Yoichi Nagashima, /Ph.D/composer/researcher/PE, was born in 1958 in Japan.
He learned and played some instruments: violin, recorder, guitar, keyboards, electric bass, drums, and vocal/choral music. He was the conductor of Kyoto University Choir and composed over 100 choral music, and studied nuclear physics there.
As the engineer of Kawai Musical Instruments, he developed some sound generator LSIs, and designed some electronic musical instruments, and produced musical softwares.
From 1991, He has been the director of "Art & Science Laboratory" in Japan Hamamatsu, produces many interactive tools of real-time music performance with sensor/MIDI, cooperates some researchers and composers, and composes experimentally pieces. He is also a key-member of Japanese computer music community.
From 2000, he has been also the associate professor at SUAC(Shizuoka University of Art and Culture), Faculty of Design, Department of Art and Science, and teaches multi-media, computer music and media-art. As a composer of computer music, he collaborates many musicians in his composition: Piano, Organ, Percussion, Vocal, Flute, Sho, Koto, Shakuhachi, Dance, etc.
In 2004, he organized and was the General Chair of NIME04, and he became the associate profrssor of master course of SUAC.
He became the professor on April 2007. He supported over 120 works and projects of interactive/multimedia installations from 2000, composed/performed many works of computer music, and organized/performed many lectures/workshops in many places all over the world.