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Taito Otani.

Musician / Artist / Director

Portrait of Taito Otani

Based in Tokyo on the Earth

Exploring Audio Visual.
Shaping experiences.

Born in 1995, Taito Otani is a Japanese musician, audiovisual artist and director with a master’s degree in engineering. At Toei Zukun Laboratory, he works on XR and immersive content. His practice spans experimental music, noise, IDM and pop electronica, installations, visual and spatial direction, and XR theatre, exploring expression through the relationships between people and computers.

taitootani1995@gmail.com ↗

History

2018 — 2026

2026

2026.10.25 Audio Visual Live Set "Gi - Matsuri" @ Moto Eigakan, Tokyo

2026.10.24 Lightning talk “Will sine waves still be beautiful in 25 years?” — Processing Community Day Tokyo 2026 @ GARAGE AKIHABARA, Tokyo

2026.10.16 Releases “Noise Journey” and “OT Minimal Scape.”

2026.10.15-18 Cognition Space Recognition — programme inclusion at Reflektor Sotkamo, Finland

2026.10.8-12 Burning Japan @ Tsumagoi Bokujo Aisai no Kane, Gunma

2026.9.21 Yona Yona Noise Warsaw @ Klubojadalnia Młodsza Siostra, Warsaw, Poland

2026.8.28 Audio Visual Live Set at "Vertigo #19" @Cafe Bar Livre, Tokyo

2026.7.24 Yona Yona Noise – July Edition "Summer Noise Festival!" @Tokyo

2026.6.26 Yona Yona Noise Season 2 – June Edition @ TKA4, Tokyo

2026.6 Installation "Expanding Bodies, Dissolving Boundaries" @Chiba Park

2026.4.30 Single "Black Night" Released

2026.4.4 Yona Yona Noise 1st Anniversary @Tokyo

2026.1.23 Yona Yona Noise – January Edition @ TKA4, Tokyo

2025

2025.12.26 Yona Yona Noise @ TKA4, Tokyo

2025.10 "A Whales Earth Catalog - Designing of Algorithmic Noise Pattern." @BurningJapan2025

2025.10 Reflektor Helsinki, Cognition Space Recognition

2025.9.21 Yona Yona Noise – September Edition @ TKA4, Tokyo

2025.7.25 Yona Yona Noise – July Edition @ TKA4, Tokyo

2025.6.27 Yona Yona Noise – June Edition @ TKA4, Tokyo

2025.6.19 Hammer of Dawn @ mod, Shibasaki, Tokyo

2025.6.4 Powwow 6/4 @ MEIMEI, Tokyo

2025.4.16 Album Release "Remote Wars"

2024

2024.9.26-29 Burning Japan with Clown Crown @Tsumagoi

2024.9.26-29 Audio Visual Exhibition Reflektor 2024 @Heureka, Finland

2024.8.24 Audio Visual Live Set musikē @Knock koenji

2024.8.2 Audio Visual Live set with Hacha @Lapin et Halot Gallery

2024.7.20 VJ Set Shinkai Open18:00 @Knock koenji

CGWORLD × Sycom — Lepton Hydro WSTRX50A workstation review for real-time content production (PR feature)

2024.6.1 VJ set musikē @Knock koenji

2024.3.26 MEIMEI SHIMOKITAZAWA DJ SET

2024.3.1-3 Illumimania@Yuzawa

CGWORLD — Toei Tokyo Studio: virtual production and XR (interview contribution)

2023

MUSIC EcoSystems BIZ — Cycling ’74 Max at Toei Zukun Laboratory (interview)

2023.11.25 Hyper geek #8 TUNNEL TOKYO@TunnelTokyo

2023.11.24 Fantazm Live-Set @Koenji DB

2023.11.3 BurningJapan2023 Installation Art @Auto Camp Mogura

2023.10.20 Installation Art and Projection Mapping @Ueno Park

2023.9 Ars Electronica ALL PLAYERS TOOL LAB. - Technical Sound Design

2023.9.30 Oto-Wo-Omoshirogaru-Yoru Live Set - NolimitTokyo @TKA4

2023.9.16 Urawaburn Live Set @Kunihouse

2023.7 DayBreak CM - Music Production

2023.7.28 - 7.30 Fuji Rock Festival'23 @NAEBA SKI RESORT

2023.7.21 Sazareba#003 @Haus Shimokitazawa

2023.6.27 - 7.4 Processing Community Day Tokyo 2023 @Shibuya Hikarie

2022

2022.12.31 Hikeytanz @Koenji

2022.12.29 Ableton Meetup Tokyo

2022.12.18 Curation Free Day6 @Neort++

2022.12.14 Curation Free Day3 @Neort++

2022.12.10 VJ Taight-O @Violetta Shibuya

2022.12.3 DJ Taight-O @TKA4

2022.11.4 Ableton Meetup Tokyo @Roppongi Cube

2022.9.2 Audio Visual Live @Shibuya

2022.8.4 Max Summer School @Tokyo Geidai

2022.7.1 The Clown Crown @Shibuya White Space Lab

2022.5.6 The Clown Crown @Shibuya White Space Lab

2022.2.5 Noisses Suginami Koenji Sanpo @Koenji

2021

2021.12.31 Noisses Suginami @TKA4

2021.12.29 Resonance Music Club presents BONENKAI @Ruby Room, Shibuya

2021.11.27 Noisses November Edition LIVE Streaming @TKA4

2021.11.5 TheCrownCrown, DJ+VJ set @WHITE SPACE LAB Shibuya

2021.10.16 Noisses October EditionLIVE Streaming @TKA4

2021.9.25 - Ableton and Max Community Japan #018 Max / Jitter / p5.js / VJ / Sound / Visuals Live Streaming, @Rittor Base, Ochanomizu. Presentation Taito Otani [link] [download]

2021.9.18 - Noisses Live Streaming @TKA4 on Live set performance. Taito Otani [link]

2021.9.6 - Virtual Burning Man 2021 SparkleVerse, The Clown Crown, DJ set. Taito Otani [link]

2021.8 - Max Summer School in Tokyo University of the Arts2021 Sound design with graphical movement. [link]

2021.8 - ABLETON MEETUP TOKYO VOL.42 DIGGING OUT THE HISTORY [link]

2021.6 - AMT VOL.41 Remote Collaboration Tools: MIXED IN KEY SATELLITE PLUGINS [link]

2021.2 - DIY Music workshop... @fabcafe as a Teaching assistant [link]

2021.1 - Vivet+ Online 2021 @Online as a founder, now on streaming [link]

2020

2020.10 - Vivet+ 2020 Online @online as a founder, now on streaming [link]

2020.10 - Stay home via computer @online now on streaming...... [link]

2020.7 - Release Space Fulcrum Remix @BrightAntennaRecords! [link]

2020 - Release - single “Ambient Sax” by nineteen95 studio. [link]

2020 - Ableton and Max Community Japan #006 @Rittor Base, Ochanomizu. [link]

2020 - Processing community day 2020 LT @Yahoo! JAPAN Open Collaboration Space LODGE [link]

2019

2019 Released album “Run Turtle, Run Rabbit” on streaming. [link]

2019 Interaction2019 A Live Interface Supporting Free Speech for Audiovisual Performance [link]

2018

2018 - JackTopGuitar: Combined Live Interface Using Guitar and Microphone for Audio-Visual Performance, The Journal of the Society for Art and Science