is a Japanese music composer and musician. She is most known for her various contributions to the ''
Bomberman
is a video game Media franchise, franchise created by Shinichi Nakamoto and Shigeki Fujiwara, originally developed by Hudson Soft and currently owned by Konami. The Bomberman (1983 video game), original game, also known as ''Bakudan Otoko'' (ç ...
'' series, amongst other
video game soundtracks
Video game music (VGM) is the soundtrack that accompanies video games. Early video game music was once limited to sounds of early sound chips, such as programmable sound generators (PSG) or FM synthesis chips. These limitations have led to the ...
.
She has studied ney performance and Tunisian style composition under professors Slah Manaa, Ali Sriti and Zakia Hannashi at l'Institut Superieur de la Musique de
Tunis
Tunis (, ') is the capital city, capital and largest city of Tunisia. The greater metropolitan area of Tunis, often referred to as "Grand Tunis", has about 2,700,000 inhabitants. , it is the third-largest city in the Maghreb region (after Casabl ...
, and studied riq under Haytham Farghaly of the same institute. She currently curates ''arab-music.com'', and has also made music for many T.V. shows, films and commercials. She is also a part-time lecturer at Kokushikan University, and has since performed many concerts with the classical
Arabic music
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ensemble Le Club Bachraf, with oud player Yoshiko Matsuda and
darbuka
The goblet drum (also chalice drum, tarabuka, tarabaki, darbuka, darabuka, derbake, debuka, doumbek, dumbec, dumbeg, dumbelek, toumperleki, tumbak, or zerbaghali; / Romanized: ) is a single-head membranophone with a goblet-shaped body. It is ...
drum and bass
Drum and bass (commonly abbreviated as DnB, D&B, or D'n'B) is a genre of electronic dance music characterised by fast Break (music)#Breakbeat (element of music), breakbeats (typically 165–185 Tempo, beats per minute) with heavy Bass (music) ...
and
acid techno
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sub-bass
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In this range, human hea ...
lines from the former genre.
She has stated in interviews that she approaches her music with the philosophy of ‘art suprematism’ or ‘absolute music.’
Works
Video games
Anime
* ''
Bomberman B-Daman Bakugaiden
, commonly abbreviated as or ''BBB'', is a ''CoroCoro Comic'' series created by Koichi Mikata, based on Bomberman and B-Daman. An animated television series was created and originally broadcast on Nagoya TV and TV Asahi at 17:00. It was al ...
'' (1998)
Other works
*"Samai Bayati Al Aryan" on ''Music Design'' (1994) - with Le Club Bachraf
*"Ismael Hayat" on ''Ten Plants'' (1998)
*''Musique classique de Tunisie et d'Egypte'' (2000) - with Le Club Bachraf
*''Concert at Dar Rachidia'' (2013) - with Le Club Bachraf
*''Les Archives'' (2019)
*''The Midas Touch'' (2022)
*''The Lantern Wheel'' (2024)