August 4, 2026 · FIL, Tokyo

Audio Buffer
Tokyo.

An open event for experimental audio practices, technologies, and works in progress. As the Tokyo edition of Audio Buffer London, it brings together artists, musicians, researchers, developers, and others working with audio to test, share, and discuss projects, prototypes, software, systems, and ideas.

Audio Buffer Tokyo logo
Event Information

The details

Date
August 4, 2026
Time
20:00 – 23:00
Doors
20:00
Venue
FIL, Tokyo
Entrance
¥1,000
About

What it is

Audio Buffer Tokyo is an open event for experimental audio practices, technologies, and works in progress.

As the Tokyo edition of Audio Buffer London, it brings together artists, musicians, researchers, developers, and others working with audio to test, share, and discuss projects, prototypes, software, systems, and ideas.

Projects can take any form or be at any stage of development, including music, sound art, generative audio, spatial audio, interactive works, and audio software.

FIL's audio facilities will be available alongside a multichannel setup consisting of 12 Musikelectronic Geithain monitor speakers suspended from the ceiling.

Rather than focusing only on finished works, Audio Buffer Tokyo provides a space to test works in progress, exchange ideas, and explore new possibilities in audio together.

Supported by sonicPlanet Ltd (UK)

Organizers

Organization

Curator

Daito Manabe

Co-Founder of sonicPlanet Ltd, UK — artist, programmer, and composer exploring how life, intelligence, and society emerge through music, computation, and audiovisual media. Founder of Rhizomatiks (2006). His research spans body–machine feedback, neural networks and brain organoids as generative media, and societies of humans, artificial life, and AI agents — alongside large-scale performances and installations.

Venue & Host

FIL Tokyo

A space where creators from various fields gather to spin threads of ideas and weave the fabric of new creation. Run by Daito Manabe, FIL aims to be a 21st-century salon where creators, artists, engineers, and musicians interact beyond boundaries — in an era where technology and art converge, and cross-disciplinary dialogue and collaboration are key to fostering innovation.

Participants

Who's presenting

  • Alminium
  • Daito Manabe
  • Keigo Yoshida
  • Philippe Esling
  • SPACE WHALE JOURNEY
Open Participation

Bring a project

We are looking for one or two additional participants or groups interested in bringing an experimental audio project to test or demonstrate.

Applications will be reviewed, and selected participants will be contacted individually with further details.

Visitors who would simply like to listen and observe are also welcome.