Office THE SOUND

Masashi Usui
Saxophonist / Composer / Educator

He is not chasing “new sounds.”
He is asking how forgotten sounds might still live in the present.

Starting from musical practices that truly existed between the 1920s and 1950s,
his work is neither restoration nor reproduction.
Instead, he engages with sound through a living body and contemporary sensibility.

Music does not arise from individual virtuosity alone.
Instruments, ensemble, acoustic space,
and the relationship between performer and listener—
only when these meet does music come into being.

From this perspective,
performance, creation, and education are treated as a single, unified practice.

In education, he works in long-term, small-group settings.
He does not pursue short-term results or immediate gratification.
What matters most is the slow cultivation of listening and perception,
and the learner’s willingness to engage fully in that process.

He is not “new sound.”
He is the future of forgotten sound.