Kai Kubota-Enright

Kai Kubota-Enright is a composer/performer based in Los Angeles. Her music primarily focuses on the relationship between sound and spatial environments, both natural and human-made, as well as how these various elements interact with personal memories and subjectivities; drawing from a variety of western and Japanese influences.

In her work she creates meditative, atmospheric spaces—often incorporating improvisational, electronic, and site-specific elements. Finding the balance between discomfort and feeling at home, her process asks a question and suggests possibilities while avoiding a specific answer, instead seeking emotional resonance through ambiguity and living in the space between boundary conditions.

Receiving the 2022 ROSL Composition Award she has been commissioned by the London Sinfonietta, and won first prize at the 2025 Graham Sommer Competition for Young Composers working with Ensemble Paramirabo. In the past she has won the SOCAN Foundation Young Composer Award for her electroacoustic music.

As a performer and producer she has created mixes and performed for NTS and dublab radio, exploring postwar Japanese avant-garde art collectives, early and obscure tape / electronic music, transgender voice therapy, and the patterns of Japanese cicada calls accompanied with voice, synth improvisation, and piano.