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Toshi Wakita
Visual Dimension Creator
Born in 1971. Since he started studying filmmaking in NY, he has been exploring infinite possibilities of visual medium. In his first feature film "MARU"(1999), he challenged to let the audience exposed to a drama with incomprehensible multiple languages without subtitles and got highly acclaimed among international film festivals. While being involved in many other film and TV productions, he also proposed new type of visual contents for kids and realized them in major TV programs such as Disney channel.
Now back in Japan, he works as "Visual Dimension Creator" not only for Film, TV, documentary, advertisement but also for many other fields and keeps pioneering the potentialities of relationship between visual medium and human beings.
"KUU" is one shape of the new possibility he has been pursuing for 25 years of his career.
He always says "Creation is prayer for me. Whenever I create something,
I can feel just infinite possibility of our lives".
Short Film about Toshi Wakita：https://youtu.be/swyFsrWaztk
Toma Sauce
Awaken artist
Studied piano under Davis Stein, singing under Akiko Takamatsu and chorus under Ko Matsushita.
In 2004, won the Grand Prix at the Tolosa Choral Competition held in Basque, Spain.
In 2006, participated in the 17th The European Grand Prix for Choral Singing held in Varna (Bulgaria).
At present, expanding the activities as a voice actor, a singer, a model, and an actress.
Has travelled around Japan to connect heaven and earth dedicating sounds with shamanic drum and bell since the summer of 2016.
Michiru Yamane
Started taking piano lessons when she was little.
After studying music composition at University, she composed more than 1000 theme tunes including the world hit series “Catslevania” for a video game company. After 20 years of making music for listeners whose reactions could not be seen, she quit the company and started working as a freelancer, aiming to expand her musical horizon.
During this time, she suffered the loss of her beloved cat after many years of living together. Then unexpectedly she found herself comforted by the sound of a chime bar. This experience drew her attention to the healing power of sound and music, and she began her own research into its effects. After intense research, she came to know that elements such as frequency and vibration have a great influence upon our mood and emotions.
In June 2016, she has experienced KUU. Since then she has become more and more inspired, and she noticed that she composed up to three or four times faster than before. This, she realized, was her awakening.
WEB : http://www.yamanemichiru.com/?lang=en
Yumiko Mochizuki
Sound Therapist
Yumiko has lived in London since 1992. She has always had a great interest in foreign instruments such as African drums.
From 2005 Yumiko found her new passion in the Tibetan singing bowls, which then she decided to adventure on her own to Nepal and learn the art from its origin.
Not only did she learn how the art is played by Master Karma Tanpai, but has also gained valuable knowledge about mantra, meditation and the lifestyle of the Tibetan monks.
Since gaining her skills, Yumiko has held a number of sound meditation concerts. The most recent concert was held last year at Notting hill Gate. Vast amount of the money that she raised was donated to the Kumamoto Earthquake fund.
Yumiko has promised that the future profits made from her concerts, she would donate a helpful amount to charity.
In 2018, she is planning her collaboration in Japan with her old Master Karma Tanpai