Tomohisa Kuramitsu, better known by his stage name Baiyon, is a Japanese

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from

Kyoto Kyoto (; Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan. Located in the Kansai region on the island of Honshu, Kyoto forms a part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kobe. , the ci ...

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.''Baiyon.com''. Baiyon uses graphical design and music in combination. In 1998, he began painting and making music, and later founded the Brain Escape Sandwich Recordings label. As a visual artist, Kuramitsu went by the name Wet Side and applied worked with posters, clothing, and copyright-free graphics.

History

*2004 - Involved in the production of documentary "moog", charged with the opening, and sections of the closing, theme *2005 - Live painting at Aichi Expo *2006 - Released first Album ''Like a school on lunch time' (also available on 7" EP) *2007 - Took part in

Stop Rokkasho The is a nuclear reprocessing plant with an annual capacity of 800 tons of uranium or 8 tons of plutonium. It is owned by Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited (JNFL) and is part of the Rokkasho complex located in the village of Rokkasho in northeast Aomo ...

Project *2008 - Released "Goshoguruma EP" through WC Recordings *2008 - Released "S Soup EP" through Irish label

D1 Recordings D1 Recordings is an Irish independent techno record label founded in 1994 by Eamonn Doyle. It is named after the Dublin postcode in which it was located and has released music by artists from there and elsewhere. Ian Maleney wrote in ''The Irish ...

. *2011 - helped with Media Molecule to make a soundtrack for LittleBigPlanet 2 Baiyon created the graphics and composed the background music for the

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game '' PixelJunk Eden.'' PixelJunk Eden has since been released for PC through Valve's digital distribution platform,

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. The game's soundtrack, created by Baiyon, is available alone or bundled with the game. The soundtrack includes his music from the original game and the "Encore" expansion. He was the musical director for the PlayStation Network game ''

PixelJunk 4am ''PixelJunk 4am'', formerly called ''PixelJunk Lifelike'', is a music video game and music visualizer developed by Q-Games. It is part of the ''PixelJunk'' series of downloadable games for the PlayStation 3. ''PixelJunk 4am'' makes use of the Pla ...

,'' released in May 2012.

References

External links

Baiyon's English homepage

Brain Escape Sandwich Recordings
(Japanese)
Wet Side, graphic design

{{Authority control Japanese multimedia artists Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Japanese people Artists from Kyoto