Hiroshi Yoshimura

However, not all Yoshimura's work included nature sounds. Green (1986) only had them in the United States release, as they were excluded in the Japanese version.

• Background — person • Name — Hiroshi Yoshimura • Native Name — 吉村 弘 • Born — 22 October 1940 • Birthplace — Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan • Died — 23 October 2003 • Genre — * Ambient • minimal • environmental • electronic • Occupation — * Composer • songwriter • Instrument — * Piano • keyboard • Yamaha DX7 • Yamaha TX7 • Yamaha FB-01 • Years Active — 1972–2003

Hiroshi Yoshimura was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa in 1940. He began learning piano at 5. He graduated from Waseda School of Letters, Arts and Sciences II in 1964. He was inspired by the Fluxus movement and the work of Harry Partch and Erik Satie.

He started the computer music group "Anonyme" in 1972. The 70's saw Yoshimura heavily inspired by Brian Eno, who had a similar minimalist ambient style. In 1978, he was commissioned by the NHK to compose the piece "Alma's Cloud". In addition to solo performances and improvisational music, he performed production performance and sound objects, environmental music containing graphic design and sound design, visual poetry, and worked on sound design business in collaboration with TOA. He also made music for galleries, museums, building spaces and train stations. He was at the forefront of environmental music. He worked as a part-time lecturer in the Industrial Design Department at the Faculty of Engineering of the Chiba University and at the Music Design Department of Kunitachi College of Music. He held workshops on citizen participation in museums. Yoshimura's debut solo album, Music for Nine Post Cards, was released in 1982. He also released Surround (1986). His 1987 recording, Flora, was released posthumously in 2006.

Yoshimura died in 2003 after battling skin cancer.

• Music for Nine Post Cards (1982) • Pier & Loft (1983) • A・I・R (Air in Resort) (1984) • Surround (1986) • Green (1986) • Shizukesa no Hon (1988) • Yoshimura Hiroshi no Mimi: Oto no Shima (1992) • Wet Land (1993) • Face Music (1994) • Kankyō Enshutsu On (1995) • Quiet Forest (1998) • Four Post Cards (2004) • Soft Wave for Automatic Music Box (2005) • Flora (2006)