Kawasaki is a Japanese  composer and double bass player. He has new perspectives to create new international works that reconsider Asia from the view point on the border between Asia and Europe.   He has joined as an active member in several projects of contemporary music, improvisational performance, and dance in many countries especially Turkey and Russia too.

Since 2015 he  organized Music and Poetic Drama Laboratory.

The new kind of theatre music combining songs, body, and voice — directed and composed by Kawasaki.  He invent and use our unique choral systems.  The theatre music is said to be ‘Asian Magic Realism’ relating to creations of Latin American artist Gabriel García Márquez or Spanish poet Federico García Lorca and so on.

 Since 2016, they have had collaborative performances with various artists from Armenia, Russia, Buryat, Tuva, Turkey,Korea,Kazakhstan and Ukraine. Based on traditional arts and folklores from all over the world including Japan.

MPDLab : Jun Kawasaki, Music and Poetic Drama Laboratory  official page

Kawasaki studied contrabass under Tetsu Saito and Motoharu Yoshizawa. Kawasaki has  has also composed and performed extensively for theater, contemporary and Buto dance.  There are about 100 pieces. His major works include music for Camille Claudel, Kenji Miyazawa and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (dance pieces conceived and choreographed by Senrei Nishikawa, a traditional Japanese dancer), About 1hr. 20min. on Oct. 1&2 in Brecht Festival (Japanese theatre company, Port B / Akira Takayama), Hamlet Machine (Heiner Müller)by Adults and Children (produced by SPAC Shizuoka Performing Arts Center in Japan), Madam Edwarda (George Bataille by Japanese traditional Marionette Theater Edo Ito Ayatsuri).