Bajune Tobeta

Bajune Tobeta is a Tokyo-based composer, producer, pianist, and acoustic researcher whose work holds to a single question: how does sound enter the body? His practice gathers four territories rarely found in one body of work: contemporary classical, ambient electronics, the Brazilian canon, and applied sound research. A graduate of Ryuichi Sakamoto's RADIO SAKAMOTO program and a contracted artist at Sakamoto's Tokyo production house LLP 10°C from 2006, Tobeta has collaborated with Christian Fennesz, Arto Lindsay, Joyce Moreno, Jacques and Paula Morelenbaum, AOKI takamasa, and Shing02. From the late 1990s he composed and sound-designed for the Katamari Damacy series at Namco. 2026 marks the first sustained international opening of his work, anchored by a sequence he calls Anechoic Studies: the single "After the Silence" with Fennesz (June), the EP Anechoic (August, mastered by Denis Blackham), and an authorized Sergio Mendes Tribute Album produced with Gracinha Leporace and recorded in part at Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Productions (September). He is the founder of CROIX Co., Ltd., where his acoustic research has led to collaborations with ANA, Hoshino Resorts, and Fitbit.