Keiichiro Shibuya is a composer, musician and artist, born in Tokyo in 1973 and a graduate of Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Music, Department of Composition. In 2002, he founded the music label ATAK. His work spans a wide range of formats and genres—from cutting-edge electronic music to piano solos, opera, film scores, and sound installations—and he is active between Tokyo and Paris.

In 2012, he premiered THE END, a vocaloid opera without human performers, starring Hatsune Miku. The costume design was by Marc Jacobs at Louis Vuitton. The work was first staged at Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris and has since toured extensively across Europe and beyond. In 2017, he performed at the Opéra national de Paris in collaboration with Jérémie Bélingard and Adrien M & Claire.

In 2018, he unveiled Scary Beauty, the Android Opera in which a humanoid android equipped with AI sings and conducts a human orchestra, performing in Japan, Europe, and the Middle East. In 2019, at Ars Electronica, he presented Heavy Requiem, a work combining Buddhist shōmyō chanting and electronics, continuing his collaboration with the sacred music tradition of Koyasan, passed down for over 1,200 years.

In 2021, Shibuya composed the opera Super Angels for a new production commissioned by the New National Theatre, Tokyo, featuring an android alongside opera singers, chorus, ballet dancers, and the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. In March 2022, at Expo 2020 Dubai, he premiered MIRROR, an Android Opera integrating Buddhist chanting, orchestra, and an android. In June 2023, the 70-minute complete version premiered at Théâtre du Châtelet, followed by a homecoming performance in Tokyo, 2024. In March 2025, he presented the solo concert MIRROR Ghost at the Grand Palais in Paris, and in May premiered Ring for Violin and Piano at the opening performance of the Cartier Women’s Initiative‘s Ceremony in Osaka.

Shibuya has also composed extensively for film. In 2020, he scored Midnight Swan (dir. Eiji Uchida), which won the 75th Mainichi Film Award for Best Film Score and the 30th Japan Film Critics Award for Best Film Music. In 2022, he composed for xxxHOLiC (dir. Mika Ninagawa) and GUCCI’s short film KAGUYA BY GUCCI, in which he also appeared alongside an android. In February 2025, he will provide the main theme and score for the NHK 100th Anniversary Special Documentary Series, On the Edge.

In recent years, he has presented the sound installation Abstract Music, shown at PRADA MODE Tokyo (2023), Lexus Beyond the Horizon at Milan Design Week (2024), Google Pixel Kyoto (2025), and PRADA MODE Osaka (2025).

Through his work, Shibuya explores the intersections of technology and the boundaries between life and death.
https://atak.jp

ATAK is a music label founded in 2002 by Keiichiro Shibuya and maria. The label releases and organises live events centred around experimental electronic music. So far, artists from Japan and overseas such as Yuji Takahashi, Yasunao Tone, Takashi Ikegami, Toshimaru Nakamura, Mika Vainio, i8u, Tomas Phillips, Norbert Moslang and goem, etc. have participated in releases. In recent years, the label has focused on the work of Keiichiro Shibuya himself, and through collaborations with various artists and researchers, it pursues the creation of music and technology.