COMPOSITION
Original music for stage, film, and narrative work, shaped around the emotional architecture of each project.
ABOUT / PRACTICE
MasashiHasegawa
A composer working across stage, film, performance, and spatial experience—beginning with listening to the story, the place, and what remains unspoken.
01 / LISTENING
A practice rooted in listening.
Before choosing an instrument or a form, Masashi begins by listening—to the story, the place, the people within it, and the atmosphere around them. Composition, performance, experience design, and visual direction are not separate departments of his practice. They are different ways of shaping how a work is encountered, felt, and remembered.
02 / PRACTICE
One practice.
Several forms.
PERFORMANCE
Guitar, conducting, and live collaboration, with the performance responding to the room and the moment.
EXPERIENCE DESIGN
Sound and structure developed around how a space is entered, encountered, and remembered.
VISUAL DIRECTION
Visual language considered alongside sound so that image, space, and timing belong to the same experience.
03 / ACROSS FORMS AND PLACES
Work shaped by context.
Rhythm and Cloth
2025 / PARIS
Original music for a fashion film, built from the mechanical rhythm and recorded sound of a working textile factory.
EXPLORE THE PROJECTThe Face of Jizo
2024 / HIROSHIMA — NEW YORK
Stage music shaped through research in Hiroshima and presented in New York.
EXPLORE THE PROJECTBOSTON RAMEN
BOSTON
Experience design, music, and visual direction for a five-seat immersive dining space.
EXPLORE THE PROJECTMAMMA IUTO DAN SUITE
COMPOSER-LED PERFORMANCE
Co-composed with Da-ma, then orchestrated and conducted by Masashi Hasegawa.
VIEW PERFORMANCE
04 / BIOGRAPHY
Biography
Masashi Hasegawa is a Boston-based composer and guitarist working across stage, film, live performance, and spatial experience. His projects include original music for a fashion film presented during Paris Fashion Week, stage music developed through research in Hiroshima and performed in New York, and the music, visual direction, and experience design of BOSTON RAMEN. He also performs as a guitarist and conductor. Across these forms, he begins by listening to the story, the place, and what the work needs.
CODA / COLLABORATION