Hinako Omori

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Hinako Omori is a Japanese composer, musician and producer based in London. Her music offers immersive sonic architectures and environments in which to process and access emotional states through binaural recording or multi-channel installation, across ambient synthesizer and vocal music, classical arrangement and composition. Hers is music with spirit and awareness; it unfurls in the mind’s eye, inviting the listener to turn inwards. Likening her process to painting or weaving, she layers, melds and merges textures and sound sources to quilt her uniquely enveloping compositions.

Omori’s palette is rooted in analogue synths (often the Prophet 8, OB6 or Moog Matriarch) alongside processed voice and field recording. Her first album “a journey…” (Houndstooth, 2022) combined therapeutic frequencies, forest bathing, and binaural sound – a meditative cartography of the mind in ambient electronics that explored the physical and psychological effects of sound in therapy, brain entrainment and frequencies that can affect our brainstates. Her second, “stillness, softness…” (Houndstooth, 2023) mapped an emotional landscape, where the nuanced response of her synthesizers became a portal to the subconscious. Omori’s lush textures and many-layered approach to composition have garnered her critical acclaim and radio play across BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio 1, 3 & 4, KEXP and NTS. “a journey…” was called “remarkable” by Pitchfork and “blissfully restorative” by Loud and Quiet, and “stillness, softness…” was credited as a “deeply enchanting patchwork” by Electronic Sound magazine. She has been covered in features and reviews in Pitchfork, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Crack Magazine, Clash Magazine, Sound On Sound, Composer Magazine, The Vinyl Factory and elsewhere.

Previous to her first full length, she also released a string of singles and EPs, including the transportive 12″ single Voyage (2019), which was shortly followed by EP Auraelia (2019), inspired by a period in which she experienced intense migraines that were accompanied by auras and other visual distortions. Remix releases include contributions by Claire Rousay, Coby Sey, Patricia Wolf, Foodman and Akiko Haruna.

Born in Yokohama, Japan, Omori moved to the UK when she was three years old and now resides in East London. She began her musical path learning classical piano, later obtaining a degree in Music and Sound Recording (Tonmeister) at the University of Surrey, where she fell in love with analogue electronics.

As a versatile pianist, synthesist and producer, Omori is involved in multiple collaborations at any one time. She performed with a 60-piece orchestra for BBC Radio 3’s Unclassified Live, and in 2024 joined Floating Points’ ensemble at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles to perform Promises, his collaborative album with the late Pharoah Sanders. Omori is also a member of Will Gregory’s Moog Ensemble, performing composed material and repertoire from electronic music icons such as Wendy Carlos and John Carpenter, alongside the music of classical composers arranged for synthesizers. As a composer and arranger she has worked on various projects, including an original score for Serpentine Gallery’s Intimacies podcast and orchestral commissions for the BBC. In 2022 she collaborated with American artist Cécile B. Evans on sound design for their multimedia installation work Notations for an Adaption of Giselle (welcome to whatever forever), 2020, exhibited at the Centre Pompidou and online via Frieze. Omori has also scored film and moving image work, including short animation Organima, which captured the real time creation of galls on a maple leaf, and Invisible Monsters & Tomato Soup, which visualised the dreams of people during the pandemic (premiered on The New Yorker). She also collaborated with poet and musician Keaton Henson on his 2024 album “Somnambulant Cycles”.

Omori has toured extensively as a solo artist, performing in venues such as Southbank Centre, The National Gallery, St Paul’s Cathedral, ICA, Kings Place, Volksbühne, Bishopsgate Institute, at festivals including Le Guess Who, ADE, Pitchfork (London), SXSW (Houndstooth / MUTEK) and Hans-Joachim Roedelius’ More Ohr Less Festival, and DJ sets at Tate Modern and POLA Museum. She has supported Ichiko Aoba, L’Rain, Anna Meredith, Beth Orton, Erland Cooper and Holy Other. She has also toured internationally and collaborated in the studio with artists including Utada Hikaru, Kae Tempest, Shabaka, Ed O’Brien (EOB), Georgia, Grian Chatten and Sophie Hunger.

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