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I like making and listening to sound. 音が好きなんです.
“Maybe you should talk to someone” out now! ✨Link in Bio 👩🏼‍🎤
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At the @emptybottle last month with @thecurls_coolband and @sjodomy!

Working on some exciting things! Stay tuned! 💛

先月のシカゴライブ!今年もバンバンやるぞ!💪🏼

Projection by @hydrosoniclightshow
Video by @pauldeuth_cs taken in Empty Bottle by @haruhi_
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2 years ago
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💜✨ᗩᒪᗷᑌᗰ ᖇEᒪEᗩᔕE ᔕᕼOᗯ✨💜

01.29.2026

I’m feeling bubbly is an 𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓. I’ve retreated into my cave for a few weeks but I wanted come back and thank everyone for being a part of this album and this show. I can’t thank you all enough. 

Album sales are doing so amazing (WE SOLD OUT ON BANDCAMP IN LESS THAN 2 WEEKS). 😭

Thank you thank you thank you all. 
Love love love love 💕 

Special thanks to:
@monastral_
@meanie.productions
@_annajohnsonart_
@bloofergirlpuppets
@slug.scape
@omaxlgzo and Maddie taken in Epiphany Center for the Arts by @haruhi_
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8 months ago
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Playing with @jambbb with @duckduckbandband tomorrow at @gmantavern 💃🏻🕺🏻

8/20 | 8:00PM | GMan Tavern 

Come bop your head with us and head bang with DUCK! 🦆 taken in Gman Tavern by @haruhi_
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2 months ago
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Alright folks, mark your calendars for August 22nd!!! @freedom_from_and_freedom_to is back on @elasticarts at 7pm/$15.  I am beyond thrilled to have the amazing Haruhi Kobayashi @haruhi_ join us again!  Come enjoy some of the best improvising musicians and dancers from Chicago, NYC, Cleveland and DC.🙌🏾. This show will be live and also on Elastic’s twitch channel, for those that can’t join us.

**Also on Aug. 22nd, the amazing duo Slowdanger will lead a movement workshop at Bimbom Studios from 10:30am-12:30pm ($15)

Freedom From and Freedom To is a cross disciplinary event featuring improvising dancers and musicians. Audience members will select the groups by chance.  I’m extremely happy to present 22 performers! Many are FFFT veterans & others are brand new to the family!

Here is the eventbrite link below for tickets:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/freedom-from-and-freedom-to-tickets-1992378372345?aff=oddtdtcreator

Haruhi Kobayashi first released music eight years ago as a teen J-pop singer-songwriter. Pulling at these past threads, she explores the themes of bi-cultural identity, tradition, and existentialism while seeking to liberate sound from preconception. Her work distills experimental pop, classical composition, and avant-garde songwriting through voice, bass, and electronics.

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1. Image one is of Haruhi singing at an FFFT event at Elastic Arts. She is wearing a long sleeved black dress. Around the image it says Freedom From and Freedom To in lavender letters, and there are gold vertical  #designs on either side of the image, as well as their name to the right in lavender letters.
Photo credit: Ricardo Adame @ricardoeadame

2. Image two is a graphic image of Slowdanger, about their upcoming movement workshop at Bimbom Studios on 8/22.

3. Image three is the FFFT graphic with all of the names of the performers in collaboration with Scott Rubin and the illustration was created by @cristalsabbagh

*This event is partially funded by 3Arts crowdfund @3artschicago 

#freedomfromandfreedomto #elasticarts #improvisedmusic #haruhikobayashi taken in Elastic Arts by @haruhi_
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2 months ago
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VIBES 2026 tonight!✨️
Open Mic/karaoke: 7:30-9p
Now playing: Haruhi Kobayashi 

COME FOR THE MUSIC ~ stay for the vibes 🫦 taken in Maelstrom Collaborative Arts by @haruhi_
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3 months ago
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Opening for some headbangers tonight ✨🤭🧨

@theowlchicago
@meanie.productions taken in The Owl by @haruhi_
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4 months ago
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🌸✨Mayyyy✨🌸 

Bringing my album around town and to Michigan!

• Cozy solo set at @marmaladepreserve 🍊
• Full of electronics at The Plant! 🌱 
• Film score at the @grandrapidspubliclibrary with the miminari trio @photoandkioto @sugifoto 🎷
• Chit chat and show in Detroit! 🥰

Photo by @omaxlgzo by @haruhi_
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6 months ago
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👀 𝟛/𝟛𝟘 𝕄𝕠𝕕𝕖 ℍ𝕖𝕩𝕖 𝕩 ℍ𝕒𝕣𝕦𝕙𝕚 👀

9:00pm @cafe_mustache
Come for some head bobbing 106bpm electronics ✨ taken in Cafe Mustache by @haruhi_
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7 months ago
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SJOD Album Release This Thursday 3/12 at Epiphany Center For The Arts 🦎🧠❤️

my new record ‘Love Isn’t Supposed To Hurt’ is out this Thursday - we are having a party at The Sanctuary at @epiphanyarts201 and i’m bringing two friends as special guests @haruhi_ and @omo_________omo .

THIS IS AN EARLIER SHOW - DOORS 7 MUSIC 7:30!!

I met and played with Haruhi Kobayashi and OMO in the last year, and find both of their approaches to hardware and experimental electronic music to be a breath of fresh air. It doesn’t hurt that they are both cool ass people too.

Haruhi Kobayashi is fresh off her debut experimental album release ‘Maybe You Should Talk To Someone’ out Jan 23rd via @monastral_ - playing with Haruhi at the @truthzonerecs showcase as well as with @curls_ultra on my birthday last year have me very excited to bring her out for an opening performance to set the mood for the night !

OMO is a monstrous set player from Ypsilanti, MI - when I first played a show with him, he had been running around Detroit doing 6 sets in 5 days. A kindred spirit to myself, I am super happy to be collaborating with him before his closing set to bring the faster acid vibes to the night.

tix available at link in bio, show is Thursday March 12th, 7PM. ‘Love Isn’t Supposed To Hurt’ available on vinyl at the show for the first time.

show poster by @thy_niconico 
sjod photography by @yoitscarol 
haruhi photo by @nemochenx 

#sjod #sjodomy #haruhikobayashi #loveisntsupposedtohurt #chicagomusic taken in Epiphany Center for the Arts by @haruhi_
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7 months ago
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@haruhi_ performs for The Art of Noise at @moondogdetroit 5/10 3 p.m. $10-20 PWYC

Haruhi Kobayashi’s life in sound is woven through her new work, Maybe You Should Talk To Someone. Growing up in Tokyo, she was singing from the moment she could speak, played taiko drums as a child, and first released music eight years ago as a teen J-pop singer-songwriter. Pulling at these past threads, she explores the themes of bi-cultural identity, tradition, and existentialism while seeking to liberate sound from preconception. Her work distills experimental pop, classical composition, and avant-garde songwriting through voice, bass, and electronics. 
 
Borrowing its title from a self-help book, Kobayashi’s new album, Maybe You Should Talk To Someone, is a diary that cheekily references the intersecting arc of 
intention and experience. Bass Extreme 5000 imitates the vibrations and movement of water, Fuluis is an aural reflection of a traumatic event, ((dance)) is a textural representation of the pressure and suppression often felt by Asian women. The album is dotted with the musical influences of her formative years — taiko and catchy hooks ripple throughout. 
 
Maybe You Should Talk To Someone captures a transitional stage of Kobayashi’s practice. The pendulum swing from mainstream pop to experimental is slowly returning to the space in between.

Produced by @_brianmcfarlane
Designed by @deathambient

Photo by Max Li taken in Moondog Cafe by @haruhi_
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5 months ago
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Maybe You Should Talk To Someone by Haruhi Kobayashi is out today as a limited-edition cassette and digital download. Link in bio.

Haruhi Kobayashi’s life in sound is woven through her new work, Maybe You Should Talk To Someone. Growing up in Tokyo, she was singing from the moment she could speak, played taiko drums as a child, and first released music eight years ago as a teen J-pop singer-songwriter. Pulling at these past threads, she explores the themes of bi-cultural identity, tradition, and existentialism while seeking to liberate sound from preconception. Her work distills experimental pop, classical composition, and avant-garde songwriting through voice, bass, and electronics.

Mark Rothko said, “I’m interested in only expressing basic human emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom and so on.” Borrowing its title from a self-help book, Kobayashi’s new album, Maybe You Should Talk To Someone, is a diary that cheekily references the intersecting arc of intention and experience. Bass Extreme 5000 imitates the vibrations and movement of water, Fuluis is an aural reflection of a traumatic event, ((dance)) is a textural representation of the pressure and suppression often felt by Asian women. The album is dotted with the musical influences of her formative years – taiko and catchy hooks ripple throughout.

Maybe You Should Talk To Someone captures a transitional stage of Kobayashi’s practice. The pendulum swing from mainstream pop to experimental is slowly returning to the space in between. by @haruhi_
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9 months ago
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🎶 𝓐𝓛𝓑𝓤𝓜 𝓡𝓔𝓛𝓔𝓐𝓢𝓔 𝓢𝓗𝓞𝓦 𝓐𝓛𝓔𝓡𝓣 🎶

Grab the album in @haruhi_ bio! 

Presenting @haruhi_ debut album ‘Maybe You Should Talk To Someone’, made with @monastral_ 

📅 Thursday, January 29th | Doors 7PM, Show 7:30PM
📍 Epiphany Chicago, Catacomb Room @epiphanyarts201
🎫 Tickets in my bio / on the @epiphanyarts201 website!

✨ @haruhi_ w/ @_annajohnsonart_, @bloofergirlpuppets feat. @slug.scape ✨

We’ve been waiting. You’ve been waiting. LET’S GOOOO! 🔥

@sarah.kim for poster design 😘
Produced with support from @highconceptlabs taken in Epiphany Center for the Arts by @haruhi_
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9 months ago
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