Somei Satoh (佐藤 聰明, Satō Sōmei, born January 19, 1947 in Sendai, Japan) is a Japanese composer of contemporary music.
[1] His musical career began with an experimental, mix media group called "Tone Field" in Tokyo.
He studied at Nihon University of Art in the early 1970s[2] and is primarily self-taught in composition.
The latter involved placing eight speakers approximately one kilometer apart on nearby mountain tops overlooking a huge valley.
In 1985, he collaborated with theater designer Manuel Luetgenhorst to stage his music at The Arts at St. Ann's in Brooklyn, New York.