Hinako Omori is a Japanese artist based in London. Her music offers immersive sonic architectures and environments in which to process and access emotional states through binaural recording or multi-channel installation, across ambient synthesizer and vocal music, classical arrangement and composition. Her textures and many-layered approach to composition have garnered her critical acclaim – debut album “a journey…” was called “remarkable” by Pitchfork and “blissfully restorative” by Loud and Quiet, and “stillness, softness…” was credited as a “deeply enchanting patchwork” by Electronic Sound magazine.
Internationally she has performed in venues such as Southbank Centre, The National Gallery, St Paul’s Cathedral, ICA, Kings Place, Volksbühne, Bishopsgate Institute, at festivals including Le Guess Who, ADE, Pitchfork (London), SXSW (Houndstooth / MUTEK) and Hans-Joachim Roedelius’ More Ohr Less Festival, and DJ sets at Tate Modern and POLA Museum.
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Omori’s palette is rooted in analogue synths alongside processed voice and field recording. Her first album “a journey...” (Houndstooth, 2022) combined therapeutic frequencies, forest bathing, and binaural sound – a meditative cartography of the mind in ambient electronics that explored the physical and psychological effects of sound in therapy, brain entrainment and frequencies that can affect our brainstates. Her second, “stillness, softness…” (Houndstooth, 2023) mapped an emotional landscape, where the nuanced response of her synthesizers became a portal to the subconscious.
As a composer and arranger Omori has worked on various projects, including an original score for Serpentine Gallery’s Intimacies podcast and orchestral commissions for the BBC. In 2022 she collaborated with American artist Cécile B. Evans on sound design for their multimedia installation work Notations for an Adaption of Giselle (welcome to whatever forever), 2020, exhibited at the Centre Pompidou and online via Frieze. Omori has also scored film and moving image work, including short animation Organima, which captured the real time creation of galls on a maple leaf, and Invisible Monsters and Tomato Soup, which visualised the dreams of people during the pandemic (premiered on The New Yorker). She has also toured internationally and collaborated in the studio with artists including Utada Hikaru, Kae Tempest, Shabaka, Ed O’Brien (EOB), Keaton Henson, Grian Chatten and Sophie Hunger.
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