Main Works
Composition
(Title
Name of the concert in which the piece was premiered, Date and place of the premiere)
“Dissolution II” for Bassoon solo
Hidetaka Nakagawa Basoon Recital March 8, 2019, Toyonaka, Japan
“Improvisation-Hashirigaki” for solo percussionist
(marimba 1, conga 1 set, cowbell 1, woodblocks 2)
Enrico Bertelli Percussion Recital October 14, 2018, Nara, Japan
“Theater piece on Rappa Bushi” for 4 performers (2 keyboard harmonicas, 2 percussionists)
Tomomi Shimizu Performs Makoto Nomura, Kohei Kondo, and Motohide Taguchi
March 25, 2018, Toyonaka, Japan
(Video recording can be found on following website.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1TOQL8-92c
(53:14 - 1:01:50)
“Forgotten times, forgotten voices” for accordion and alto saxophone
Tomomi Matsubara Accordion Recital- Nova Ventus! Accordion!-
March 20, 2018, Toyonaka, Japan
Sound Installation “Exchanging memories related to sounds and music”
Open house Exhibition at the Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik
February 22, 2018, Berlin, Germany
“The infernal affair in Tamugan, Davao” for baritone and piano
JSCM, Autumn Exhibition of Contemporary Music 2017 II, Concert of JSCM Members “Independent” I November 29, 2017, Tokyo, Japan
(Video recording can be found on following website.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19AD9crlrqA
“Ritual on Wartime Memories” for 15 performers
Final performance of the project with same title at the Philippine Nikkei Jin Kai School
(Collaborative composition with 14 students of the grade 8 of the school)
December 6, 2016, Davao, The Philippines
(Video recording can be found on following website.)
http://www.tufnomadicairph.org/portfolio/motohide-taguchi/
“For Jasmine Flowers” for piano
Doctoral Solo Recital of Christopher McKiggan: Resonance of Hope at Rice University
April 1, 2015, Houston, Texas, USA
“Midare Sugagaki” for shakahachi solo
JSCM, Autumn Exhibition of Contemporary Music 2014 II: “Independent” I
October 29, 2014, Tokyo, Japan
“Miyagi; The Woman” for shamisen and voice
JSCM, Autumn Exhibition of Contemporary Music 2013 II: “Independent”II
November 11, 2013, Tokyo, Japan
Sound Installation “Between Shifted Memories”
Nothing to Declare Exhibition at Yuchengko Museum
November 16, 2011 - January 29, 2012, Makati, The Philippines
“The Garden with Ritualistic Sounds” for two trombones
JSCM, Exhibition of Contemporary Music 2009 IV, Contemporary Virtuoso!
March 6, 2009, Tokyo, Japan
“Dance” for Japanese instruments and Chin-Dong Orchestra
JSCM, Exhibition of Contemporary Music 2008 V, Fusion Festa
March 16, 2008, Kawasaki, Japan
“Like a Rhinoceros’ Horn” for recorder solo
Composers’ Group “Sou”, The 22nd Exhibition May 19, 2007, Tokyo, Japan
“Ame Wo Matsu Kokoro ” for ten performers
An Evening of Asian Contemporary Music October 3 , 2002, Quezon City, The Philippines
(Video recording can be found on following website.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpsgOnUttRk
“Playground” for 15 players
Slot Concert, 8th International Young Composers’Meeting
February 15, 2002, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
“Appearance/Disappearance” for shakuhachi and two koto
Con Temporary Ko to…Hougaku Ehibition V February 16, 2001, Tokyo, Japan
“Dissolution” for trombone and piano
JSCM, Autumn Exhibition of Contemporary Music 1999 III, The 16th JSCM Award for Composers
November 8, 1999, Tokyo, Japan
papers, articles
Published
“Traditional Music as a Medium of Collective Memories: Cases from Batanes and Biwako”
In Living Landscapes and Connected Communities: Culture, Environment, and Changes across Asia, Areca Books, pp272-282, 2014.
“Book Review: Jose S. Buenconsejo. The River of Exchange: Music of Agusan Manobo and Visayan Relations in Caraga, Mindanao, Philippines (DVD)”
In Southeast Asian Studies Vol. 49 No2, pp 330-332 (CSEAS, Kyoto University), 2011
“Commentary technique in Luciano Berio”s work “Chemins II” (written in Japanese)
In Bulletin of the Department of Education, Ibaraki University (Humanities, Social Science, Arts Vol 59), pp41-57, 2010
“To Compose as an Asian – The Relationship Between Traditional Music and The Works of Contemporary Composers in The Philippines and Indonesia”
In Economic Prospects, Cultural Encounters and Political Decisions: Scenes in a Moving Asia (East and Southeast). , Partner Institutions of API Program. pp297-309, 2005.
Unpublished (presented in the conferences)
“Reconfiguring Music through Re-Defining the Role of Players in Composition Works: Three Innovative Examples from Asia”
Presented in 33rd Asian Composers League International Festival and Conference (Quezon City, The Philippines), November, 2015.
“Filipino Contemporary Music: Characteristic Ways of Filipino Composers to Utilize Traditional Music with Contemporary Musical Idioms”
Presented in 8th International Conference on Philippine Studies (Quezon City, The Philippines), July 2009
“The Reflection and the Development of the Traditional Music in the Contemporary Works in Indonesia – Some Examples in java and Their Background”
Presented in Conference on Traditional Vietnamese and Asian Music: Adapting Globalized World (Hanoi, Vietnam), January 2005