Tatsuru Arai (*1981) studied composition with Akira Nishimura, Toshio Hosokawa and Sunao Isaji at the Tokyo College of Music 2003-2009. In 2007, he was part of a composition class with Bernhard Lang at impuls in Graz. In 2013, he graduated with a master’s degree from the “Hanns Eisler” Academy of Music in Berlin, where he studied composition, computer programming and multimedia art with Wolfgang Heiniger. His works were performed in over 40 cities in Europe, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Tunisia, Japan and more. His innovative and contemporary opera “Vitruvian“ was performed in Berlin und London and combines classical music with new technology. Since 2016, he is composing Hyper Serial Music that will add innovation to the principle of Serialism: ”structural”, “complex” and “noisy”. Hyper Serial Music is the algorithm music generated by state-of-the-art technology such as Artificial Intelligence than by native human intelligence only.

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