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