KAWAKAMI, Noriko

Noriko Kawakami was born in 1955 in Ehime, Japan. She studied composition with Ryohei Hirose at the Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo. In 1987, she moved to Germany. 1987/88, she studied composition with Klaus Huber in Freiburg i.B., and 1988/91 with Nicolaus A. Huber at the Folkwang-University of Art in Essen. In 1994, she participated at a composition course with James Dillon and Ole Lützow-Holm in Göteborg, Sweden. In 1995/96, she lived as a freelance composer in Paris, France. In 2004, she was a guest artist at the ZKM (Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany).
She is particularly interested in the inner life of the sound and its processing with modern sound techniques. Recently, she has tried to gain new possibilities of shaping music from the idea of synaesthesia.