Artist / Founder, Kuon R&D
朝比奈 幸太郎Kotaro Asahina
Music, recording art, acoustics, software, hardware — five domains spanned and united by a single mind. Founder of Kuon R&D and heir to Kaneda-style DC recording.
The path
A pianist, bound for Europe
Studied ethnomusicology and became a pianist. Explored improvisation with Lindha Kallerdahl in Sweden; made an album with Achim Tang in Cologne, where Stephan Desire taught him acoustics.
Inheriting Kaneda DC recording
Back in Japan, studied under the leading authority Akihiko Goto — directly inheriting a purity of sound, half a century in the making, unreachable by commercial equipment.
Describing the world in software
Learned C and GPS positioning from Kazuhide Kobayashi of Geosense. Builds a browser-native music platform solo — frontend, audio engine, payments and all.
The feel of hardware
Restores Switzerland's legendary Revox decks himself — reading boards, soldering, verifying. That touch lives in the P-86S / X-86S microphones.
Kuon R&D
Founds Kuon R&D — uniting acoustics, software, hardware and musical art into a single platform unlike any in the world.
空音開発 Kuon R&D
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