July 9, 7:00 PM
Join us at the Thomas Mann Memorial Museum (Tomo Mano Street. 8, Nida) as we welcome a very special guest from Japan! 🇯🇵
Jun Futamata is a Japanese composer and vocalist whose work inhabits the space between voice, nature, and silence. Drawing inspiration from the animistic sensibility at the heart of Japanese culture, she crafts immersive sonic environments that reveal the subtle interconnectedness of all living things. Through layered vocal expressions and evocative soundscapes, her music invites listeners into a world where the visible and invisible coexist.
After studying improvisation based on chord progressions in New York, she developed a compositional approach shaped by both structure and chance through local sessions. Since returning to Japan, she has worked across film, television dramas, anime, video games, commercials, and theatrical music.
Her debut album GRAVITY (2021) reached No. 1 on the iTunes New Age chart. In 2024, she released When Your Bones Turn into Opal, recorded in Iceland and recognized as a work exploring the transformation of life and time. In 2025, she completed a European tour across Finland, Estonia, and Iceland. In 2026, she undertook a residency in Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, creating a sound-based work documenting the present landscape, while also touring the Baltic states to further expand her international activities.
Recent projects include music for the EXPO 2025 Osaka-Kansai Pavilion, arranging and vocals for FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH, and the soundtrack for the Japan-Finland co-production drama BLOOD & SWEAT. She has also contributed vocals, lyrics, and arrangements to works including Pokémon, My Hero Academia, Cat’s Eye, and the official theme for the Tokyo Marathon.
Blending post-classical, ambient, minimal, and electronica influences, she explores sonic experiences that transcend conventional musical forms.