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. She has been a member of

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since 2011.

Biography

Born in Osaka, Yamane attended the University of Arts in

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. Her training destined her to be a violinist in

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, but she extended her practice to modern music and later to

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. She moved to Europe to further study in

and

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, finally relocating in Berlin. In 2009 she started an experimental contemporary dance and live music project, Tansik, with dancer Chizu Kimura. The group produced e.g. the plays "~ing" in 2012 and "Discord" in 2016. In 2011 she joined the band

. In 2013 she started a solo project, Tukico, with a debut performance at Madame Claude, Berlin, in 2014. She pairs up with Jürgen Heidemann in KiSeki (木石), producing experimental music with the sound of wood (木, wood of a violin, played by Yamane) and stones (石, stones, played by Heidemann). ("Kiseki" is a pun on 奇跡 (kiseki) which means "miracle" in Japanese.) She often toured as a violinist with

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and other Japanese musicians. She composes and plays with the Berlin-based Motimaru Dance Company. In 2017 she performed on the ''

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'' original motion picture soundtrack composed by

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of Tangerine Dream.

Discography (partial)

*2014: KiSeki: Traumstein *2015: Tukico: SD card egen from Ame(video works) *2016: Hoshiko Yamane/Tansik: Discord (dance soundtrack) *2017: Hoshiko Yamane: MUT (dance soundtrack) *2017: Hoshiko Yamane/Duenn: Nakaniwa *2017: Hoshiko Yamane: A Story of a Man EP *2018: Hoshiko Yamane: Threads *2018: Hoshiko Yamane: Twilight EP (dance soundtrack)

Tangerine Dream (partial)

*2011: Live at the Lowry (The Gate of Saturn, live at the Lowry, Manchester) *2011: Knights of Asheville (live in Asheville) *2011: The Island of the Fay (guest on track 4) *2011: The Angel of the West Window (plays on 3 tracks) *2015: Supernormal – The Australian Concerts 2014 *2015: Quantum Key *2016: Live at The Philharmony Szczecin – Poland *2016: Particles *2017: The Sessions I *2017: Light Flux *2017:

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*2018: The Sessions II *2018: The Sessions III *2018: The Sessions IV *2019: The Sessions V *2019: Recurring Dreams *2020: The Sessions VI *2021: The Sessions VII *2021: Probe 6-8 *2022:

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Yamane, Hoshiko 1981 births 21st-century Japanese classical composers 21st-century Japanese classical violinists 21st-century Japanese women composers Ambient composers Electronic composers Japanese electronic musicians Japanese women classical composers Japanese women classical violinists Living people Tangerine Dream members