haruhikobayashisound@gmail.com@haruhi_

Haruhi


Photo by Nemo Chen

Bio




Haruhi Kobayashi is a Chicago-based sound artist. Originally from Tokyo, Haruhi began her career as a Japanese-pop singer-songwriter, releasing solo albums and composing for TV and film. Throughout her formative years in the Japanese pop industry, she became interested in the underlying social and emotional connotations and conditions of her own voice and the inextricable ties between one’s voice and their identity. She started to manipulate her voice into unidentifiable sounds, liberating it from its “human” constraints. Her recent body of work gives sound a sense of shape, texture and agency through sensory sculptures, and explores the physical human interaction and intimacy between the listener and the sound source. She has received an AA in Music Production from the Los Angeles College of Music, a BFA in Fine Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is the current High Concept Labs AIR resident 2024.


Photo:
June 22nd 2023, Constellation, Chicago IL
Chicago Film Archive Media Mixer, partnered with Zachary Hutchinson
Photo by CFA





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Upcoming / Recent


Paige Alice Naylor & Haruhi Kobayashi
Cactus Club | Milwaukee, WI
December 8 (Sun) , 2024 | Time TBD

HCL Premiere: Allen Moore | Solar Eulogy
High Concept Labs | Chicago, IL
December 12 (Thu) , 2024 | 6:00 PM

https://highconceptlabs.org/events/allen-moore-solar-eulogy
FOLK by Amanda Maraist
Co-MISSION Works-In-Progress Fall 2024
Links Hall | Chicago, IL
December 13 (Fri) , 2024 | 7:00 PM

https://www.linkshall.org/upcoming-events/co-mission-works-in-progress-fall-2024
CLEAT Series: Sarah Belle Reid / Ryan Gaston, Paige Alice Naylor / Haruhi Kobayashi
Elastiv Arts | Chicago, IL
November 8 (Fri) , 2024 | 8:00 PM

https://elasticarts.org/events/cleat-series-sarah-belle-reid-ryan-gaston-paige-alice-naylor-haruhi-kobayashi


ELASTRO AV Night 2: Curated by Clark Woods, Taylor Dye, Gordon Fung
Elastic Arts | Chicago, IL
October 13 (Sun), 2024 | 8:00 PM


Ft. Melon Sprout, Brandon McAlinden, Kim Nucci, Haruhi Kobayashi, Juan Flores, Deirdre Fromberg, Jordan Paine, Slugscape

https://elasticarts.org/events/elastro-av-night-2-curated-by-clark-woods-taylor-dye-gordon-fung

Select Works




ELASTRO AV Night 2: Curated by Clark Woods, Taylor Dye, Gordon Fung
Elastic Arts | Chicago, IL
October 13 2024

Ft. Melon Sprout, Brandon McAlinden, Kim Nucci, Haruhi Kobayashi, Juan Flores, Deirdre Fromberg, Jordan Paine, Slugscape
Sonic Playground IV by Haruhi Kobayashi

Recorded at Elastic Arts
Videography by Kishino Takagishi
Audio Recording and Mixing by Evan Watkins
Freedom from Freesom To (Set 1)
Elastic Arts | Chicago IL
December 2 2024


Ft. Musicians: Paige Brown, Sharon Udoh, Haruhi Kobayashi
Dancers: Gaby Martinez, Sara Zalek

Paige Naylor x Haruhi Kobayashi 2024 Tour
CUSP | Cleveland, OH
September 7, 2024
KYLYN Festival Concert | Here/Now
Ann Arbor District Library | Ann Arbor, MI
May 25 2024

Ft. Kioto Aoki
Haruhi 1st First Album “Inside Out” Release Teaser