| Tomoko Ueyama | ||
| Born in 1972 and residing in Hamamatsu City. | ||
| Sound Artist, Sound Engineer, and President of Mimijima: Ear-Island of Sound and People | ||
| I create sound installations and sound workshops and focus on how people perceive the world through their sense of hearing, sight, and touch, and the moments when various materials become sound and produce value. I also make audiovisual recordings and sound productions, focusing on the reality and fiction revealed by the manner in which hearing and vision (sound and image) are structured. My works have been exhibited at the Sound Design Factory in Hamamatsu City (2019) and also at overseas exhibitions such as the Device_art (Croatia, 2007) and Ars Electronica (Austria, 2000). The workshops I hold at medical institutions, museums, elementary schools, and other locations are tailored to the environment and physical conditions. As a sound engineer, I took part in the monologue opera “The New Era” (composed by Masahiro Miwa, directed by Shinjiro Maeda, at the Aichi Prefectural Art Theater Small Hall in Aichi and the Phoenix Hall in Osaka, 2017), “Happiness is in the Day-to-Day” directed by Werner Penzel and Ayako Mogi (2016), and Yasunori Ikeda’s “3 Portraits & June Night” (2012). I graduated from the Stage Sound Effect Course of the Theatrical Arts Department at Osaka University of Arts, the Art and Media Lab Department at the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS), and completed graduate studies at the International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences’ (IAMAS) Graduate School of Media Expression. From 1995, I worked for the NHK Osaka Broadcasting Station for three years as a sound staff and sound effects assistant, engaging in TV program MA studio operator work. At the same time, I worked as an assistant director and timekeeper in the production of a medical program at Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation from 1995 until the program ended in 2009. Since 1998, I have been involved in the production and recording of video and music, the production of sound artworks, and workshop planning and production. In February 2013, I established “Mimijima: Ear-Island of Sound and People,” an association that explores the hidden relationship between sound and people in the world and creates new works centered on sound art, video sound design, and sound workshops. Since then, I have been the president of the association. From April 2010 to March 2016, I was a part-time lecturer at Nagoya Zokei University, teaching sound production classes and general education lectures. From 2019, I have been a part-time lecturer of the Faculty of Design at Shizuoka University of Art and Culture, teaching classes on sound recording technology and sound production for video. |
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| EDUCATION | ||
| 2003 |
Completed graduate studies at the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences’ Graduate School of Media Arts and Sciences
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| 2000 | Graduated from the International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences’ (IAMAS) Art and Media Lab | |
| 1995 | Graduated from Osaka University of Arts, Theatrical Arts Department, Stage Sound Effect Course | |
| ACADEMIC AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE IN ART | ||
| 2020 – | Part-time Lecturer at the Department of Design, Shizuoka University of Art and Culture Subject: Visual Techniques Seminar (Specialized Design Course, Intensive Lectures) Description: Sound Recording and Sound Production for Film and Video Production |
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| 2019 – 2020 | Part-time Lecturer at the Department of Design, Shizuoka University of Art and Culture Subject: Videography Techniques (Specialized Design Course, First Semester) Basic Seminar C (Specialized Design Course, Second Semester) Imaging Technique Seminar (Specialized Design Course, Intensive Lecture) Description: Sound Recording and Sound Production for Film and Video Production |
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| 2010 – 2015 | Part-time Lecturer of the Digital Media Design Course, Nagoya Zokei University Subject: Digital Media Methodology, Introduction to Digital Media Design A/B (Liberal Education) Digital Media Design Special Seminar III-A, B (Sound and Media Art Seminar) Digital Media Design II-B (Basic Sound Technology) |
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| 2009 – 2011 | Part-time Lecturer of the Design Model, Nagoya University of Arts and Sciences Junior College Subject: Web Design |
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| 2003 – 2010 | Part-time Lecturer of the Information Design Comprehensive Course, Kyoto Institute of Design Subject: Expression Techniques I & III Sound |
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| AWARD | ||
| 2008 | Media to Work Up a Sweat 2008 (Received for work with the ELEFUNTONE Workshop Group) | |
| 2002 |
Received the 13th Ishida Foundation Art Encouragement Award (Received for work with the electropti artist group)
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| 2000 | Received Honorary Mention Award in the Interactive Art Category at the Prix Ars Electronica 2000 | |
| AWARDS – COMMISSIONED WORKS | ||
| 2008 | Web Sound Production Supervisor for the KNIT CAP CUP 2007 WEB | |
| Received the Tokyo Interactive Ad Award 2008 in Product Site Category | ||
| 2007 |
Sound Planning, Sound Production and Operation Supervisor for Dracom’s “Moreuta (Trickling Song)” Festival 2007
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| Received the Kyoto Art Center Performing Arts 2007 Award (Stage Director: Jun Tsutsui) | ||
| 2007 | Sound Designer for “My Town” by Animation Artist Tomomichi Nakamura | |
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Received the Encouragement Prize in the General Public Competition Category of the Image Forum 2007
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| 2000 | Sound Designer for the Installation Artwork “Contact Water” by Artist Taisuke Murakami | |
| Received the Excellence Prize at the 2001 Siggraph Exhibition, 2001 Japan Media Arts Festival | ||
| ARTIST IN RESIDENCE | ||
| 2020 | Artist-in-residence Program at Kamoe Art Center Hamamatsu (Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture) | |
| SOLO SHOWS | ||
| 2020 | “Memory and Recordings Swayed by the Wind – If you ride the wind in Hamamatsu 2020 May – August” (Kamoe Art Center Hamamatsu, Room 104, Hamamatsu City) |
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| 2014 | “Sound Installations and Workshops that Inspire with Voices” | |
| “Ugome naderu, Ai no Sakebi♡ (Writhing Cry of Love)” (Japan Showa Music Village, Gifu Prefecture) | ||
| 2014 | “Move? Create! Digital KIDS Myself 2014” (Kids Plaza Osaka, Osaka) | |
| GROUP SHOW (selected) | ||
| 2019 |
“Sound Design Factory in Hamamatsu 2019” (Kamoe Art Center Hamamatsu, Hamamatsu City, Hamamatsu Prefecture)
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| 2009 | “Device_art” (Zagreb, Croatia) | |
| 2007 | “Imakarada (Its From Now)-IAMAS in Tokyo Exhibition” (Spiral Garden, Tokyo) | |
| 2004 |
“Me Kara Toku Ten (An Exhibition Told from the Eyes)” (Tokyo Zokei University Yokoyama Memorial Manzu Museum, Tokyo)
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| 2002 | “New Town Art Town Exhibition” (Throughout Sanyo Danchi, Okayama Prefecture) | |
| 2002 | “13th Ishida Foundation Art Encouragement Award Exhibition electropti showcase 2002” | |
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| 2000 | “COMMUNICATION ART Exhibition <PART Ⅲ>” (Pepper’s Gallery, Tokyo) | |
| 2000 |
Received Honorary Mention Award in the Interactive Art Category at the “Prix Ars Electronica 2000” (Linz, Austria)
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| 2000 | “electropti – For a Future Lost in Advance” (Spiral Garden, Tokyo) | |
| ORGANIZED WORKSHOPS | ||
| 2020.12 – 2021.01 | “”Fuji no Kuni Kids University of Art” “REC & PLAY with Cassette Tapes! Sound Recording & Editing Workshop” (Organizer:Art & Design Works, Online Workshop, Hamamatsu City), Hamamatsu City) |
Online, Fasiritator |
| 2020.07 | “Fuji no Kuni Kids University of Art” “REC & PLAY with Cassette Tapes! Sound Recording & Editing Workshop” (Keisuke Kinoshita Memorial Museum , Hamamatsu City) |
Planning, Execution |
| 2019.12 | “Sound Design Factory in Hamamatsu 2019” “Playing with Popping, Rustling, and Airy Sounds Vol.2” (Kamoe Art Center Hamamatsu, Hamamatsu City) |
Planning, Execution |
| 2019.02 | “Playing with Popping, Rustling, and Airy Sounds” (Ogaki City Suitopia Center, Ogaki City) | Planning, Execution |
| 2015.11 | The 7th Mitonomachi Tsukuru Ichi “Let’s Make a Whispering Instrument” (Mitonocho, Gifu Prefecture) | Planning, Execution |
| 2015.09 | HIJISAI 2015 “Sound Searching near the Domeki River” (Surrounding Area of Domekigawa, Mashiko Town) |
Planning, Execution |
| 2015.07 | Workshop at the 6th Mitonomachi Tsukuru Ichi “Let’s Make a Whispering Instrument” (Mitonocho, Gifu Prefecture) |
Planning, Execution |
| 2015.04 | Workshop at the 5th Mitonomachi Tsukuru Ichi “Let’s Make a Whispering Instrument” (Mitonocho, Gifu Prefecture) |
Planning, Execution |
| 2014.1 | Workshop at the 3rd Mitonomachi Tsukuru Ichi “Let’s Make a Whispering Instrument” (Mitonocho, Gifu Prefecture) |
Planning, Execution |
| 2014.08 | “Ugome naderu, Ai no Sakebi♡ (Writhing Cry of Love)”; Listening to Sounds in Different Ways” “Let’s Make Roaring Instruments and Whispering Instruments” (Japan Showa Music Village, Gifu Prefecture) |
Planning, Execution |
| 2013.01 | Look at Sound Workshop at the “Stunning Garden” (Kids Plaza Osaka, Osaka) | Planning, Execution |
| CONCERTS, LIVE PERFORMANCE | ||
| 2021 | “2020 Cultural festival Less than expression” “Funka sai 2020 vol.4” （Takeshi Curture Center, Hamamatsu City) |
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| 2005 | Acoustic Music Festival CCMC2005 | |
| 24-Channel Speaker Orchestra Acousmonium (Maison Franco-Japonaise, Tokyo) | ||
| 2004 | “-Bird Bird-Vol.1” (BRIDGE, Osaka) | |
| 2003 | Takaaki Shinbori Project’s Second Performance: Diversity (KAVC, Kobe) | |
| 2003 | “May 25, 2003 Kichijoji. Reisiu Sakai” (Warszawa Fourth Floor, Tokyo) | |
| 2002 | Bannou Neji Live Event (cafe Blue, Osaka) | |
| 2002 | The International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) 2002 Nagoya-related Project electropti “Club” @ Nagoya (Shumokukan, Nagoya City) |
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| COLLABORATIONS | ||
| – SHOWS | ||
| 2011.09 | “WALKING ON SOUND” (Nomad Village, Awaji Island. Sound Programming Supervisor) Collaborating Artist: Werner Penzel, HACO |
Sound system, Progrum |
| – ORGANIZED WORKSHOP | ||
| 2020 | Online Sound Workshop “My Sounds Make Me” (Organizer: Art&Design Works) | Planning, Facilitator |
| Worked with the ELEFUNTONE workshop group | ||
| Members: Tomoko Hashimoto, Keiko Kobayashi, Tomoko Ueyama | ||
| 2011.07 | The 2nd Nagoya Zokei University Open Lecture “Enjoying Image with Sound” (Menard Art Museum, Aichi Prefecture) |
Planning, Execution |
| 2011.07 | “Fluttering Box Workshop; Sound Cooking” (Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Yamaguchi Prefecture) |
Planning, Execution |
| 2010.06 | Workshop at the “Aichi Triennale 2010 Artist Dispatch Project: Nagoya City Misono Elementary School” | Planning, Execution |
| 2009.02 | “Exotic – City of Light” (Aichi Children’s Center, Aichi Prefecture) | Planning, Execution |
| 2008.09 | “Media to Work Up a Sweat 2008: A Media Program Connecting Art, Play and Children” (Aichi Children’s Center, Aichi Prefecture) |
Planning, Execution |
| 2008.05 | “Smartphone☆Digital Kaleidoscope” (Kawaguchi City Media Seven Work Studio B, Saitama Prefecture) | Planning, Execution |
| 2006.03 | “CANVAS Workshop Collection 2006” (Akihabara Daibiru Building, Tokyo) | Planning, Execution |
| 2004.02 | Children’s Workshop at the “Ogaki Biennale 2004” (Yanagen Main Store, Gifu Prefecture) | Planning, Execution |
| 2003.11 | Workshop at the National Center for Child Health and Development (National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo) |
Planning, Execution |
| 2003.1 | Workshop at the Community Land Matsusho Workshop (Setagaya Matsuzawa Elementary School, Tokyo) |
Planning, Execution |
| 2003.09 | Workshop at Kyodo Art Festa (Kyodo Suzuran Shopping Street, Tokyo) | Planning, Execution |
| 2003.05 | Setagaya Mama Workshop (Setagaya Mama, Tokyo) | Planning, Execution |
| 2003.04 | Workshop at the Kyodo CAT Art Event in Shiobarayu (Shiobarayu, Tokyo) | Planning, Execution |
| 2002.11 | Workshop at the National Center for Child Health and Development (National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo) |
Planning, Execution |
| 2001.12 | Sound and Video Workshop at the “Digital Playing Exhibition” (Seibu Gallery, Tokyo) | Planning, Execution |
| 2001.09 | elefuntone, Sound and Video Workshop (National Center for Child Health and Development Hospital, Tokyo) |
Planning, Execution |
| 2001.08 | Sound and Video Workshop at the “Digital Playing Exhibition” (Seibu Gallery, Tokyo) | Planning, Execution |
| SOUNDS FOR MOVIE AND EXHIBITION (selscted) | ||
| 2020 | G.F.G.S. LABEL CD002 “SEWN UP 2016-2018” (Music Mixing and Mastering Production) | |
| 2019 | Introduction video of Michinoku Shiokaze Trail (North and South Editions) directed by Ayako Mogi (Natori Trail Center, Miyagi Prefecture. Sound Recording) |
Sound Recording |
| 2017 | “Art-MARUKET 2017; When We Connect, to Connect, for Connection” Video Document (Commissioned by The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Gifu Prefecture. Sound Recording and MA) |
Sound Recording, MA |
| 2016.06 | “while we kiss the sky” Directed by Werner Penzel and Ayako Mogi, Produced by Silent Voice (Now Showing at Theatre Image Forum Shibuya, Tokyo and other locations nationwide) |
Sound Recording |
| 2016 | “BYT # 03 About the Things May Come to Pass” directed by Yasunori Ikeda Exhibited Works at the Omnibus Project: BETWEEN YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW (Japan Media Arts Festival, Niigata Exhibition, Niigata Prefecture) |
Sound Recording, MA |
| 2016.02 | “Letting Pigeons Fly” directed by Yasuhiko Machida (Island Shadow Tour – Three Nights of Sound, Light, and Signs; gift_lab GARAGE, Tokyo. Audiovisual Mastering) |
Audiovisual Mastering |
| 2015.06 | Listen to the Far North of Human-Powered Music! Musical Score Publication Commemorative Event: Public recording of “Rainbow Machine Koan-001” composed by Masahiro Miwa – With Hiroaki Ooi – (Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences, Gifu Prefecture. Sound Recording) |
Sound Recording |
| 2014.08 – 12 | “while we kiss the sky” Directed by Werner Penzel and Ayako Mogi, Produced by Silent Voice |
Sound Recording |
| 2014.09 | Sound Recording Supervisor for Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto’s archive video (Saito Kinen Festival, Matsumoto City. Sound Recording) |
Sound Recording |
| 2013.08 | Sound Recording Supervisor for Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto’s archive video (Saito Kinen Festival, Matsumoto City. Sound Recording) |
Sound Recording |
| 2013.04 | “Geo Viewer System” (National Historic Site of Hiruiozuka Kofun Park, Ogaki City. Audio Production for Tablets. ) | Sound Production for tablet |
| 2012.09 | “3 Portraits and JUNE NIGHT” directed by Yasunori Ikeda (HIJISAI 2012; Iizuka-tei Collection, Mashiko Town.) |
Sound Recording, Mastering |
| 2012.01 | “BYT # 02 Hanging in mid-air” directed by Yasunori Ikeda Exhibited Works at the Omnibus Project: BETWEEN YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW |
Sound Recording, Mastering |
| 2009.09 | “People of the Earth; 3 Portraits” directed by Yasunori Ikeda (HIJISAIi, Iizuka-tei Collection, Mashiko Town) |
Sound Recording, Mastering |
| 2008.09 | Kyoto University Digital Archive Video Series: “The Earth in Continuous Motion” | Sound Production |
| 2008.04 | Kyoto University of the Arts Home Page(top page) sound production (Kyoto University of the Arts, Kyoto) | Sound Production |
| 2007.07– 10 | Shirakura Knit and KNIT CAP CUP 2007 Tokyo Interactive Ad Award in Product Site Category |
Sound Production |
| 2007.04 | “My Town” animation produced by Tomomichi Nakamura (Image Forum Festival 2007, Tokyo and Kyoto) |
Sound Production |
| 2006.12 | National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation’s Introduction DVD (National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo) |
Sound Production |
| 2006.06 | ICC Renewal synposium opening sound sound production （NTT Inter Communication Center, Tokyo) | Sound Production |
| 2005.11 | Tokyo Picnic Club sounds (Showa Kinen Park, Tokyo) | Sound Production |
| 2005.11 | “Greentimes Exhibition at Culture zone in Showa Kinen Park” (Showa Kinen Park, Tokyo) | Sound Production |
| 2005.03 –09 | “Channel Nippon Pavilion” in the “Cyber Japan Pavilion” of the Aichi World Expo Pavilion | Sound Production |
| 2004.1 | Mount Osore Photo Exhibition, Suda Private School by Polaroid (Gallery Le Deco, Tokyo. Sound Production and Sound Composition for the Exhibition Venue |
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| 2000.03 | “Contact Water” installation work by Taisuke Murakami Received the Excellence Prize at the 2001 Siggraph Exhibition, 2001 Japan Media Arts Festival |
Sound Production |
| 2000.01 | “BOX” Miragescope (Broadcast on Ogaki Cable TV, Ogaki City） | Sound Production |
| 1999.11 | “scRap” Miragescope (Broadcast on Ogaki Cable TV, Ogaki City） | Sound Production, Director |
| 1999.07 | ” [re:] ” Miragescope (Broadcast on Ogaki Cable TV, Ogaki City） | Sound Production |
| 1999.05 | “Flow” Miragescope (Broadcast on Ogaki Cable TV, Ogaki City） | Sound Production |
| STAGE SOUND | ||
| 2017.12 | The Monologue Opera “The New Era” composed by Masahiro Miwa, directed by Shinjiro Maeda (Small Hall of Aichi Prefectural Art Theater, Aichi Prefecture and the Phoenix Hall, Osaka) |
Sound operation |
| 2016.12 | “Planned and Composed by Nobuhiro Ito: Lecture Concert: Sound-like Voice / Voice-like Sound, Masahiro Miwa Anthology” Starring: Masahiro Miwa Performed by: Akiko Marutani (Soprano), Yujin Okano (MIDI Accordion) the Formant Brothers (Masahiro Miwa and Nobuyasu Sakonda), Orphe Choirs (Chorus), and Toshiyuki Yamana (Harpsichord) (Phoenix Hall, Osaka) |
Sound Planning, Operation |
| 2008.9-10 | dracom’s Festival 2008 “Hakarazumo (Unexpectedly)” (Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, and Morishita Studio, Tokyo) |
Sound, Sound effect, Operation |
| 2007.12 | dracom present “Fusyo no Chikusyo” | Sound, Sound effect, Operation |
| 2007.09 | Received the Kyoto Art Center Performing Arts 2007 Award for “Moreuta” written and directed by Jun Tsutsui at Dracom’s Festival 2007 (Kyoto Art Center Free Space, Kyoto, and Ai Hall, Itami City) |
Sound, Sound effect, Operation |
| 2006.11 | dracom’s Festival 2006 “World Bypass” (Worked at Ogaki Biennale, Gifu Prefecture, and Ai Hall, Itami City) |
Player, Sound arrange |
| 2006.05 | Wing Reenactment Expo, dracom: “The Hungry Person’s Speech” (Wingfield, Osaka. Sound Planning, |
Sound arrange, Sound effect, Operation |
| 2005.11 | dracom Festival 2005 “Mishimin Wide (Un-citizen Wide)” (Ai Hall, Itami City) | Payer, Sound arrange, Operation |
| 2004.12 | dracom Festival 2005 “Mishimin Wide (Un-citizen Wide)” (Ai Hall, Itami City) | Sound effects, Operation |
| 2004.08 | “Special Feature: Hamlet,” Kyoto Art Center Performing Arts 2004 Nominated Work (Kyoto Art Theater studio21, Kyoto. Sound Planning, and Sound Effects) |
Sound effect |
| 2003.01 | dracom Festival 2003 “Green” (Ai Hall, Itami City. Sound Planning) | Sound effects, Operation |
| 2002.07 | dracom Festival 2002 “Pre-Gre” (Wingfield, Osaka) | Sound effects, Operation |
| 2001.11 | dracom Festival 2001 “Gudaguda no Rikigaku (Withering Mechanics)”(Wingfield, Osaka) | Sound effects, Operation |
| 2001.05 | dracom MAXI “San nin Riki” (Wingfield, Osaka) | Sound effects, Operation |
| 2000.10. | dracom Festival 2000 “The Melancholy of 0.2 Seconds of Total Recovery” (ABENO LOXODONTA, Osaka) |
Sound effects, Operation |
| 2000.04 | The Monologue Opera “The New Era” composed by Masahiro Miwa, directed by Shinjiro Maeda (Kyoto Prefectural Art Live Theater International, Kyoto, and Kioi Hall, Tokyo) |
Sound Operation |
| SONG SELECTION | ||
| 1997.06 | “Tamayura Diary of Isse Ogata”（NHK Radio Drama, Osaka City） | Song selection |
| 1997.03 | ”Landscape is like a lemon”（NHK Radio Drama, Osaka City） | Song selection |
| 1996.12 | “Dog happiness”（NHK Radio Drama, Osaka City） | Song selection |
| PRODUCTION PROGRESS AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT | ||
| 2017.9 | Japan Media Arts Festival 2017 (ICC, Tokyo Opera City Gallery in Tokyo, Japan) |
Technical Staff and Setup |
| 2017.3 | CALCULATED IMAGINATION Media Art Exhibit by IAMAS (Laforet Museum in Tokyo) | Production Progress and Setup |
| 2015.12-22 | Gifu Ogaki Biennale 2015 “Cracks of Daily Life” (Softopia Japan Center in Gifu) | Production Progress and Setup |
| 2013.05-07 | Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM) 10th Anniversary Festival (Downtown Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi Prefecture) |
Production Progress, Technical Support and Setup |
| 2008.05-07 | Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM) 5th Anniversary Festival (Downtown Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi Prefecture) |
Production Progress, Technical Support and Setup |
| SOUND ASSISTANT AND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR WORK | ||
| 1995 – 2009 | Freelance Contract with Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation News Bureau’s Medical Program “TV Doctor” (Osaka) |
Assistant Director, Timekeeper |
| 1995 -1998 | Freelance Contract as a MA Studio Assistant at the Technical Department of NHK’s Osaka Broadcasting Station (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) |
MA |
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| 2006.04 | “Dance of the Southern Islands” Kansai Ryukyu Dance Instituteat the 16th Regular Performance (Archaic Hall, Amagasaki City) |
Stage costume production |
| PRESS REVIEW | ||
| Deborah Hustic site (Croatian artist, blogger ) | ||
| http://www.body-pixel.com/2010/02/13/interview-with-tomoko-ueyama-i-want-my-body-to-hear-more/ | ||