The Japanese, Malibu-based composer, artist and classical pianist is known for her genre-defying works spanning film, television, advertising and music production. She has scored Halle Berry's directorial debut, Bruised, and partnered with A24 and Kogonada on After Yang, in collaboration with composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. In 2022, she scored Steve Buscemi’s The Listener. She has collaborated with countless brands in the advertising space, including Porsche, Chanel, Hermes & Prada, and her song There Are Many Of Us was the main title track for Spike Jonze's film, I'm Here.
In television, Matsumiya scored HBO skateboarding series Betty with long-time collaborator Crystal Moselle, as well as her 2015
award-winning documentary The Wolfpack. Matsumiya was one of the composers for A24's Apple TV docu-series, Home, winning the 2023 Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Music Direction and Composition. She also scored K-pop group Blackpink’s 2020 documentary Light Up the Sky.
Matsumiya traces her experimental approach to music to her teenage years, when she dropped out of art school to go touring with punk bands; “I found freedom in punk because I didn't realise how much I felt suppressed by classical music – even though I love it.” Matsumiya is currently working on a piano installation and album, and has scored acclaimed fantasy action series, The Spiderwick Chronicles, coming out in Spring 2024.
What's Included
Instruments
Crystal Bowls
Quartz crystal bowls captured with traditional and modern playing styles
Longs
Swells
Rolls
Shorts (Normal)
Shorts (Damped)
Sticks
Blend between these different sticks to create a unique mix
Plastic Mallet
Rubber Mallet
Brushes
Soft Mallet
Hot Rods
Sticks
Tuning Forks
Two identical tuning forks hit together
Shorts (Normal)
Shorts (Tremolo)
Warps
A collection of warps made by running the crystal bowls through guitar pedals and granular synths
Windbells
Memories
Mega Space
Icicles
CD Skip
Snowfall
Controls
Attack - adjust the attack of the sound
Release - adjust the release of the sound
Offset - move the sample start forward or backwards
Reverb - mix in a convolution reverb of the Round Chapel
Tech specs
Kontakt Player version
Kontakt Player 6.7.0 or higher
As Crystal Bowls is a Kontakt plugin hosted library, for system and OS requirements please refer to the Native Instruments website.