Tomotaro Kaneko, a part-time lecturer at the Tokyo University of the Arts and other institutions, was born in 1976. His field is Aesthetics and aural culture. He has organized Japanese Art Sound Archive since 2017. His recent publications include “Sound Technology in Japanese Art after the movement of “Environmental Art”: Bikyoto Generation in the Early 1970s” (in Hyosho: Journal of the Association for Studies of Culture and Representation, no. 12, 2018), “Namaroku culture in 1970s Japan: The techniques and joy of sound recording” (in Kallista: the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Theory, no. 23, 2017), and a Japanese translation of Jonathan Sterne’s book, The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (jointly translated by Katsushi Nakagawa, Tomotaro Kaneko, Fumikazu Taniguchi, published by Inscript, 2015). He has also worked on a series of reviews of foreign books on the topics of sound studies and sound art in the music magazine, Artes (2011–2015).