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Daryl Jamieson was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and is based in Zushi, Japan. He’s a composer and sound artist, working with Japanese and western classical instruments, field recordings, and video. In 2018, he received the Toshi Ichiyanagi Contemporary Prize for the third of his Vanitas trilogy of music-theatre pieces. His other major works include the Descants series (recently released as a box set and digital on bandcamp) and utamakura series. His music is heavily influenced by his study of Nō theatre and his study of mediaeval and contemporary Japanese aesthetics and philosophy. His first book is called Experimental Music and Japanese Aesthetics: Silence, Nature, and Hollow Listening, and it was published by Bloomsbury in August, 2026.
