 Conversation with Toshio Hosokawa 
Born in 1955 in Hiroshima, Toshio Hosokawa is one of the most- played living Japanese composers worldwide. His musical language is deeply marked by Japanese aesthetics, especially by gagaku. The mouth organ shō, characteristic of Japanese court music, is particularly important to his compositional process. Hosokawa has developed some of his fundamental concepts, such as the notion of “matrix” or corporeality, through this instrument. He has composed around fifteen works for shō, solo or with other instruments, in collaboration with the shō player Mayumi Miyata (born in 1954). These subjects were discussed in a video interview with the composer conducted in Japanese on February 19, 2021.