Music across disciplines
Masahiro Hiramoto is a Tokyo-based composer working in contemporary classical and post-classical forms — across albums, commissions and collaborations worldwide.
Working across
- Dance
- Ballet
- Film
- Documentary
- Photography
- Contemporary art
- Architecture
- Installation
- Theatre
- Fashion
- Orchestral
Selected collaborators
- Lil Buck
- Jon Boogz
- Random International
- Zaha Hadid Architects
- Sadler’s Wells
Listen
Two albums, eight months apart. HUMAN is rooted in the classical tradition from the Baroque onward, taking in contemporary music, noise and electronics along the way. BEYOND continues it — where HUMAN looks at what we are, BEYOND looks past it.
HUMAN — November 2025
BEYOND — June 2026
PROTAGONIST follows in January 2027.
From Île Noire
Written for Kishin Shinoyama’s film. More experimental and textural than the albums, and closer to the language of film scoring.
Selected works
Random International
Life In Our Minds: Motherflock · Installation · First shown in New York, 2022 · Since exhibited in Amsterdam and London, to 2026
A score built around a string ensemble of some eighty parts, written for a swarm that moves as though it were a living thing — vast, coherent, and not quite identifiable. The music tracks the flock rather than accompanying it.
A second work, When Tomorrow Comes, was exhibited at Noor Riyadh in 2023 and in Bodrum in 2024.
Lil Buck and Jon Boogz
Choreography and performance · With Movement Art Is · 2026
A piece on freedom, for percussion and a minimal string ensemble. It opens with a low drum at the pace of a heartbeat; the percussion thickens as though people were joining one by one, and the strings answer it into the final section.
Also: Random Magic Moment In Tokyo On Christmas Eve, a film with Lil Buck, 2022.
Adeolu Osibodu
Three short films with the photographer, 2025–2026
Violence of the Sea (2025) is an original score for string ensemble and harp, written for the film and later released on the album HUMAN. Boy by the Sea and Marina Man (both 2026) use existing work from the same album — for saxophone and organ, and for solo violin and string quintet.
Kishin Shinoyama
Île Noire · Directed and photographed by Shinoyama (1940–2024) · 35 min, monochrome · Shogakukan, 2020
One of the last major works by Shinoyama, whose portraits of John Lennon and Yoko Ono became the cover of Double Fantasy. The music came first: ten pieces written from a hundred still photographs, with the film edited to them afterwards.
Part of an eighteen-year collaboration with Shinoyama, across exhibitions, film and audiovisual concerts.
Original soundtrack available on all streaming platforms.
Commission
Rights settled in one conversation
Master and publishing held in one place. Sync licences issued directly, without third-party clearance.
Written, recorded and mixed in Tokyo
A standing ensemble developed over several years toward a European and American performance idiom.
Short deadlines are workable
Larger works are planned months ahead, but urgent commissions have often been taken.
Contact
Commissions and licensing are handled directly. Tell us about the work and you’ll have a reply within a few days.
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Or write directly:
Masafumi Hiramoto — Producer and manager
masahirohiramotocomposer@gmail.com
Masahiro and Masafumi Hiramoto are brothers, and have worked together since 2013.