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Prof. Shin Nakagawa, PhD (b. 1951)
He is a director of Urban Culture Research Center of Osaka City University. He has been working on soundscape, music in Southeast Asia and Europe and art management, and got his Ph.D. from Osaka University of Arts in 2001. He won the cultural prize from Kyoto Prefecture in 1990, Kyoto Music Prize in 1992, Suntory Prize in 1992 and Koizumi Music Prize in 1993. He has written many books including “Heiankyo Oto no Uchu (The Sounding Cosmos of the Heiankyo Capital)" in 1992, which was published in Germany in 2000,“Musik dan Kosmos, Sebuah Pengantar Etnomusikologi, Yayasan Obor, Indonesia" in 2000 and “Topos of Sound-art” in 2007. He published his first novel, titled “Sawa Sawa” in 2003. He is the leader of a Javanese gamelan group called ‘Marga Sari’in Osaka and director of Semba Art Café, which is managed by OCU