Midori Komachi — Composer | Solo Violinist | Sound Designer
Midori Komachi is an international composer and violinist creating original music and productions for visual media, immersive installation and interdisciplinary storytelling. Her work frequently bridges the musical languages and aesthetics of the UK and Japan, drawing on my background as a classically trained violinist with a deep interest in textural string writing and spatial sound.
Midori’s music and installations have been commissioned by major brands and organisations, including LUSH and OPPO, and presented at major international platforms such as Milan Design Week, London Design Biennale, and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts. In 2025 she served as Music & Audio Content Editor for the UK Pavilion at the Osaka World Expo, and composed and sound-designed the Japan Pavilion at London Design Biennale—named ‘Best Pavilion’ by Forbes. Her latest album, Chashitsu: Auditory Tea Room (MSCTY), launched to a sold-out event at the Royal Albert Hall.
As a solo violinist, she has performed extensively across Europe and Japan, from Tonhalle Zurich to the Warsaw Philharmonic and Wigmore Hall… From 2020–2021 she led a digital residency in Brazil as British Council & PRS Foundation Musician in Residence.
Whether writing for live ensemble, immersive spatial audio, or intimate character-driven film, her practice centres on crafting unique timbres, and expressive sonic worlds that shift between intimate and ambient.
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Music & Audio Content Editor with Immersive International for UK Pavilion, World Expo 2025, Osaka, creating a 20-minute immersive experience in English and Japanese.
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Named ‘Best Pavilion’ by Forbes, ‘Paper Clouds: Materiality in Empty Space’ is a Japanese poem to The Nelson Stair, and to the surface textures, translucency, lightness and inner strength of Washi paper.
Composed and produced the sound installation for this Pavilion, in collaboration with installation designer SEKISUI HOUSE - KUMA LAB (The University of Tokyo). This is a multichannel, surround sound composition that plays through new speakers by Mineral Sound.
Chashitsu: Auditory Tea Room is an album and an immersive performance work that explores the architecture, philosophy and aesthetics of the Japanese tea room as a sonic journey. Blending solo violin and field recordings of Chashitsu, the piece explores concepts such as ma (meaningful silence), sawari (Japanese aesthetics of noise), timbre and the movement of gestures through space.
Premiered with a sold-out performance at the Royal Albert Hall in October 2025, the performance shifts between intimate acoustic gestures and expansive electroacoustic textures, creating a quiet yet atmospheric world shaped by spatial listening, movement and sound as material.
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