3.profile
You will find a simplified explanation about myself below.
Sorry that I don’t have the decent cv in English yet.
Please also check my page provided by the university: https://er-web.ynu.ac.jp/html/NAKAGAWA_Katsushi/en.html.
Or You can fined my academic materials in English at the ResearchGate account page (and the academia account page).
Or my ORCiD ID: 0000-0002-8302-1039.
Or Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wqSYxrMAAAAJ
If you need to take contact me, please send to "katsushinakagawa (at) ynu.ac.jp"
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I am NAKAGAWA Katsushi, an associate professor at Yokohama National University, Institute of Urban Innovation (I was born in 1975 and got a Ph.D. from Kyoto University, Japan in 2008).
I am doing research on History of Sound in the Arts, now mainly interested in the genealogy of “sound art” and the comparative analysis on the situation of Sound Art in Asian countries.
I started by doing research on History of Cagean experimental music and “sound art.” After my Ph.D. dissertation, I began my research on the development of sound art in Japan (some of which were done with my collaborate researcher KANEKO Tomotaro), and Sound Studies (which were resulted in the book about the general history of sound media and the translation of The Audible Past by Jonathan Sterne). Hereafter, I plan to continue the genealogy of “sound art” and the comparative research on the situation of Sound Art in Asian countries.
My main interest resides basically in the history and function of sound in the arts and music in the culture.
June, 29th, 2017
Some Articles in English
NAKAGAWA, Katsushi. 2023a. “Case Study on the Process of the Popularization of Kankyō Ongaku: How Brian Eno’s ambient music has become known in 1980s Japan?.” Faculty of Urban Innovation (Yokohama National University) ed. Tokiwadai Journal of Human Sciences, 9: 75-91. （『常盤台人間文化論叢』9: 80-91） http://doi.org/10.18880/00015178
NAKAGAWA Katsushi. 2022b. "A Revised Theory of Christian Marclay. Interacting With the World." in Chritina Marclay Translating, exhibition catalogue; 329-335.
NAKAGAWA Katsushi. 2021b "History of Sound in the Arts in Japan Between the 1960s and 1990s" in: Charrieras, Damien, and François Mouillot. 2021. Fractured Scenes: Underground Music-Making in Hong Kong and East Asia. Springer Singapore: 225-239.
NAKAGAWA Katsushi. 2019a. "A Brief Consideration About the Relationship Between Sound Art and Tactile Sense." In: Computational Aesthetics. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer, Tokyo: 53-65. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-4-431-56844-5_4
in: Suzuki, Yasuhiro, Katsushi Nakagawa, Takashi Sugiyama, Fuminori Akiba, Eric Maestri, Insil Choi, and Shinya Tsuchiya. Computational Aesthetics, Springer, 2019. https://www.amazon.co.jp/Computational-Aesthetics-SpringerBriefs-Sciences-Technology/dp/4431568425
NAKAGAWA Katsushi. 2019b. “Why did the composer begin to make visual art?: The ambient music and sound art of YOSHIMURA Hiroshi” in Proceedings (CD-ROM) of the 21st INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF AESTHETICS, Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade, Serbia, July 2019: 1244-1252.
NAKAGAWA Katsushi and KANEKO Tomotaro. 2017. "A Documentation of Sound Art in Japan: Sound Garden (1987–1994) and the Sound Art Exhibitions of 1980s Japan.” Leonardo Music Journal 27: 82-86.
→http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/LMJ_a_01024
KANEKO Tomotaro and NAKAGAWA Katsushi. 2017. “Research on the Developments of Sound Art in Asian Countries: On Sound Effects Seoul series (Interviews with Ji-Yoon Yang and Chulki Hong).” Faculty of Urban Innovation (Yokohama National University) ed. Tokiwadai Journal of Human Sciences, 3: 161-173.
NAKAGAWA Katsushi. 2016. “The Possible Context of “Sound Art” in Japan in the late 1980s: Ethnomusicology.” in: Proceeding of ICA20 "Aesthetics and Mass Culture" published by 2016 ICA Secretariat, Department of Aesthetics, Seoul National University, Seoul Korea: pp.794-799.
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NAKAGAWA Katsushi and KANEKO Tomotaro. 2016. “Research on the Development of Sound Art in Asian Countries — Interview with Ms. Yeung, Yang (楊陽, founder and executive director of soundpocket in Hong Kong).” Faculty of Urban Innovation (Yokohama National University) ed. Tokiwadai Journal of Human Sciences, 2: 80-91.
NAKAGAWA Katsushi. 2010. “What is 'sounds which are just sounds'? : On the Acceptance of John Cage's Indeterminate Musical Works.” The Japanese society for aesthetics, ed. Aesthetics (Online Version). 14 (April, 2010): 42-54.
NAKAGAWA Katsushi. 2006. "Listening as a mean for the production of sound: a study of La Monte Young's word pieces." The Japanese society for aesthetics, ed. Aesthetics. 12 (March, 2006): 121-132.→link to ResearchGate
NAKAGAWA Katsushi. 2003. "On Kosugi Takehisa's 'Catch Wave'." SASAKI, Ken-ichi, and OTABE, Tanehisa: The Organizing Committee of the 15th International Congress of Aesthetics (c/o Institute of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, Faculty of Letters, the University of Tokyo), ed. The Great Book of Aesthetics. The 15th International Congress of Aesthetics, Japan 2001, Proceedings. (CD-ROM).
Oral Presentation in English
NAKAGAWA Katsushi. 2019. “Why did the composer begin to make visual art?: The ambient music and sound art of YOSHIMURA Hiroshi” at the 21th International Congress of Aesthetics (University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia), July, 24th, 2019.
NAKAGAWA Katsushi. 2018. “Environmental music in the field of popular music: The case of 1980s Japan” at The 6th Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies Conference (Communication University of China, Beijing, China), June 9th, 2018
NAKAGAWA Katsushi. 2017. “History of sound art in Japan and how to compare sound art in Asian countries (research in progress)” at "Panel 3: Scene Report on Sound Practices in Japan, Hanoi” of WSK AXIS 2017: Festival of the Recently Possible ( De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, Manila, Philippines), October, 27th, 2017.
NAKAGAWA Katsushi. 2016. “The possible direction of sound art in Japan in the 1980s: the Case of SEKINE Hideki.” at Crossroad2016 (University of Sydney, Australia), Dec, 17th, 2016.
NAKAGAWA Katsushi. 2016. “The Possible Context of “Sound Art” in Japan in the 1980s: Ethnomusicology.” at the 20th International Congress of Aesthetics (Seoul National University, Korea), July, 26th, 2016.
NAKAGAWA Katsushi. 2001. "On Kosugi Takehisa's 'Catch Wave'." at International Association for Aesthetics, the XVth International Congress of Aesthetics (Makuhari, Japan), 8/23/2001.
Others
A review about Asian Music Festival visiting Art Camp Tango on the website of Asian Music Network
: “To Listen and To Play: A record of Asian Meeting Festival coming to play at Art Camp Tango” (Feb 19th, 2018)