西原尚プロフィール　Nao Nishihara Profile

音を主要な媒体として、サウンドアートを実践・実験している。音を生み出すために必要な、木、人間、空き缶、電気、などの物体が、この世界でどのように存在し、互いにどう関わり合っているかを聴く。来場者や観客もまた、音をありのままに聴くことがいかに困難かを語りかけてくる。魂と心と脳と耳が常に一体となって働き、決して分離しないためだ。もっと物や人の声を聴くために、遠くへ旅をしたい。美術展や勉強会などの場を借りて、これまでの経験を共有したい。録音技術、音響技術、楽器作り、木工、工作を得意とする。共訳書に『サウンドアート』(アラン・リクト著、2010)と『ミュージック』(H.U.オブリスト著、2015)。また、恩田晃と共にCD「荒野へと」（2020）をリリース。

Nao Nishihara practices and experiments his sound art work through exhibitions and performances. The objects, such as wood, human, vacant cans or electricity, which are always necessary to make sound, tell him the way how they exists in this world and how they relates each other. Visitors and audiences also tell him how difficult it is to listen to sound as it is, because soul, heart, brain and ears always work together and never work separately. To listen to more people and objects, Nishihara wants to travel throughout Japan and the world. He wants to share his experiences through venues and study groups. He excels at recording techniques, sound engineering, instrument making, woodworking, and crafting. His co-translation projects include Sound Art by Alan Licht (co-translated with Kazue Kobata and Hiroshi “EGA” Egaitsu, 2010) and Music by Hans Ulrich Obrist (co-translated with Fumiko Uchiyama and others, 2015). He also released the CD Kouya-e-to (Ftarri, 2020) in collaboration with Aki Onda.