Hello my name is Yuichi Onoue.
Japanese musical instruments(both handmade & existing) player, Composer , Musical producer & engineer

I was born in 1969 Tokyo. I started to play the musical instruments(guitar, keyboard) when I was about 10 years old. In 1982, I started to compose , perform and record my own songs. It continues up to the present time. And I also became to be interested in radio electronics , electric guitar and music synthesizer. So I have made many electric sound machine since then. For example, fuzz box / filter / synth drum / oscirator / noise genelator / vocoder ....and so on. Among them in 1998, I made my own Ribbon Controller, and started live performance by using it. Then in 2003, I made my original musical instruments which is named "Kaisatsuko(回擦胡)" - two strings Hurdy-Gurdy like oriental fiddle. Now I'm mainly playing these two handmade instruments at my live performance. And I also have played them with various musical instrument players. You can check my performance of Ribbon controler and Kaisatsuko from here.

Side by side, I have tried some musical computer programmings which are not only conventional one , but also algorhythm composition(usuing MAX etc) and digital signal processing. I wander about hi-tech to low-tech, analog to digital and various kind of music.

!!Attention Please!!
Even if you want my handemade musical instruments(like RibbonController and Kaisatsuko), I can't make them for you. Because I don't have much time to make them for others. Very sorry. Basically I'm not craftworker. Please recognize me as a "MUSICIAN" who also plays handmade musical instruments.

Home Page
torigoya.main.jp/en_index.html
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myspace
www.myspace.com/yuichionoue

尾上祐一(おのうえゆういち)
1969年東京生まれの音楽家。回擦胡、リボンコントローラとい った自作楽器を中心に様々な楽器を演奏し、ハイテクからローテク 、そして古今東西の様々な音と音楽を探求する。小学高学年より楽 器演奏と作曲を始め、1980年代初頭より曲製作をラジカセ2台 によるピンポン録音にて開始。そして以後現在までコンスタントに 曲製作をし続けている。元々ギターやキーボードなどの既存楽器を 演奏するが、電子工学への興味と音楽表現の追求から電気系自作楽 器やエフェクターの製作・演奏にたどり着き、自身の音楽に反映さ せている。２１世紀に入ってからは、エレキ擦弦創作楽器"回擦胡 "や、コブシとポルタメント自在の電子楽器"リボンコントローラ "といった電気系の自作楽器を中心にした演奏活動をソロからバン ドまで形態、ジャンル問わず、盛んに行っている。ポップスに根ざ しつつも、民俗音楽、テクノ、コンピュータによるアルゴリズミッ ク音楽、電子音楽、現代音楽、即興演奏、フリージャズなどの要素 の導入があり、また自己表現に意欲的な様々なミュージシャン、ア ーティストとの交流も盛んである。