Katsura Yamauchi

Katsura Yamauchi is a Japanese saxophonist and improviser born in Beppu in 1954. He began playing saxophone in the 1970s and gradually moved from jazz towards freer approaches to composition and spontaneous performance. His sound practice centres on the physical presence of breath, the instrument's resonances and a broad palette of saxophone timbres.

He is active as a solo improviser, ensemble performer and concert organiser, maintaining relationships with international improvising musicians. His Salmo Sax practice connects free expression with a focused exploration of the acoustic saxophone, often using sustained notes, rapid figures and subtle changes in attack.

On Creative Sources, Katsura Yamauchi is credited on 3 Rushes (CS227) and The presence of air particles ignited by memory (CS342).