Sound Artist/Filmmaker

After graduating from Tokyo University of the Arts, Morinaga moved to France. Upon returning to Japan, he refined ethnographic methods through scientific and technological approaches, documenting the origins of instruments and folklore, as well as rituals and ceremonies, while creating works from a transcultural perspective. 

Notable recent works include The Voice of Inconstant Savage (2024/CAM-Gulbenkian, Portugal), an immersive installation on the theme of the discourse of savagery in the 16th century and today, juxtaposing the oratio chant of the hidden-christian, called Kakure-Kirishitan of Ikitsuki Island in Nagasaki Prefecture, the karawara chants of the isolated Awá indigenous people of the Amazon, and Gregorian chants from Iberia, Exploring Gong Culture of Southeast Asia (2022/Subrosa, Belgium), a fieldwork-based documentation of gong music performed by Southeast Asian ethnic minorities, and POLLINATORS (2020/Saitama International Art Festival, Japan), an audiovisual installation depicting the lives of beekeepers and shamans among the Hmong people in northern Vietnam from the perspective of bees.