Kotaro Asahina

Work withKotaro Asahina

Artist / Founder, Kuon R&D

KOTARO ASAHINA

I am an artist

Kotaro Asahina

What I can do

Restoration

Full restoration of Revox open-reel decksMechanicsElectricsElectronic circuitsAlignment and measurement

Recording & acoustics

Microphone design and buildCircuit design and prototypingHand solderingRecordingMixingMasteringAcoustic measurementSound field design

Music

PianoSynthesiserRyūtekiShōCompositionArrangementImprovisationMusic theoryEthnomusicology

Positioning

Building and running an RTK base stationCentimetre-level positioningReading observation dataCoordinate transformationGeoid models

Software

Audio signal processingRustWebAssemblyCAcoustic processing that runs in the browser

What I released

2013Solo piano albumReleased on Time Machine Record
2014Sonata for piano and double bassReleased with Achim Tang in Cologne, Germany

What I built

Kuon R&D — Sound division

kuon-rnd.com

More than thirty tools for people who make music, all running in the browser alone. Nothing to install, and no waiting for an export.

Listed as world firsts

The main ones

Open Kuon R&D

KUON GEO

kuongeo.com

A base that collects satellite positioning data every day and publishes it untouched. Anything derived is built in a separate layer; the original is never altered.

Base stations

2,470 stations in 90 countries are tracked. 2,347 of them are answering right now.

Seven GNSS tools

Four CAD tools

True of all of them

  • Conversion and inspection finish inside your own browser. Neither your drawings nor your observation data are sent anywhere
  • No account, no size limit, no charge
Open KUON GEO

What will we create

together