{"id":2636,"date":"2022-02-25T01:45:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T16:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/k2.works\/?page_id=2636"},"modified":"2023-05-20T20:14:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T11:14:55","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/k2.works\/en\/biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"english-bio\" class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/k2.works\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/koji-kusanagi-20230520.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5558\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/k2.works\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/koji-kusanagi-20230520.jpg 640w, https:\/\/k2.works\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/koji-kusanagi-20230520-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/k2.works\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/koji-kusanagi-20230520-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/k2.works\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/koji-kusanagi-20230520-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/k2.works\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/koji-kusanagi-20230520-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"as-a-software-engineer\">As a software engineer<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2001 &#8211; 2003: Worked at a start-up system integrator company; worked mainly for local governments and their agencies.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2003 &#8211; 2004: Worked as a freelance developer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2004: Worked at a Windows-based business application development company.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2005 &#8211; now: Worked at one of the largest Internet service company in Japan; worked mainly for high-traffic distributed systems, as a SRE.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Detailed career summary will be found at: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/koji-kusanagi\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/koji-kusanagi\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"as-a-music-composer\">As a music composer<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1983: Started Studying piano performance, solfege, music theory, and composition techniques under Noriko Shiraga and Akiko Inoue.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1989: Learned to play the guitar on his own. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1996: Performed his original music mainly as a rock band at live houses, events, and street performances around Kyoto in his school days.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1996: Began participating in the competition sound creation and pre-production works of Hiroki Nagase who was a professional composer, and learned the techniques of recording and mixing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1997: Established MIDI audio stock website called &#8220;nerve &#8211; \u96d1\u97f3\u7a7a\u9593&#8221;.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1998: Started activity as a member of the composition circle <a href=\"http:\/\/kitchon.net\/\">Yoshida Music Works<\/a>. Began paid music composition services.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2001: <span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A nerve disease weakened the hearing in his right ear.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2002: Suspended the paid music composition services, due to the preceding disease.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2003 &#8211; 2010: Participated several spot recordings for co-workers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2011: Hospitalized and underwent several surgeries.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2011 &#8211; 2014: Gradually restarted music production activities again as a hobby, and participated in compilation projects for music material websites.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2014 &#8211; now: Resumed music production contracting only for specific clients, with the recovery of hearing in the ear.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a software engineer As a music composer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":24,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/k2.works\/?page_id=2544","_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2636","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","en-US"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/k2.works\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/k2.works\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/k2.works\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k2.works\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k2.works\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2636"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/k2.works\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5565,"href":"https:\/\/k2.works\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2636\/revisions\/5565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/k2.works\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}