Hatis Noit
Voice as a universal instrument in the avant-garde music of the twenty-first century
Hatis Noit is a Japanese vocalist and composer who works at the intersection of experimental vocal arts, sound meditation and elements of traditional East-West music.
From the small town of Shiretoko on Hokkaido, it was recognized in the international art environment through a unique approach to the use of human voice as an autonomous, universal and self-sufficient tool.
Voice Awakening
A turning point in her life was her trip to Nepal at the age of 16. During her stay at the women’s temple in Lumbini, the alleged birthplace of Buddha, she heard the morning singing of a nun performing Buddhist mantras.
That’s when Hatis Noit decided to dedicate herself to vocal art
This experience has had such an emotional impact that it was then that Hatis Noit decided to devote herself to vocal art. From that point on, her voice became not just a way of expressing, but a meditational and spiritual channel of communication with nature, the inner world and the collective unconscious.
Name Symbol
An artist’s pseudonym is taken from Japanese Folklore: Hatis Noit means Lotus stem . Lotus in Buddhist and Shinto symbols is a bridge between two worlds — living and spiritual.
The name Hatis Noit highlights the essence of her creative philosophy: music as a means of connecting visible and invisible, material and metaphysical.
Sound philosophy
The singer has no musical education. Her technique was developed through individual experiments and deep diving into different vocal traditions. Among the sources of inspiration she refers to Japanese court music gagaku, European opera singing, Gregorian and Bulgarian choir practices, as well as Buddhist mantras and modern avantgarde. There are no words in her compositions, as well as musical instruments in the traditional sense. All sounds are generated exclusively by a voice — from singing to simulating natural noises such as leaf silk or seaweed.
One of the key releases in her career was the mini-album «Illogical Dance» (2018), in which Hatis Noit collaborated with famous Matmos experiments previously working with Bjork.
In this project, the voice appears to be a multilayered structure that forms sound sculptures close to modern art. Each track is the result of a complex process of improvisation, repeated recording and assembly of vocal fragments. Even elements that appear to be electronic effects or sounds of nature are created solely by their voice, without the use of semplins or external sources.
Album «Aura»
In 2022, Hatis Noit released her first full-length album, «Aura», which received international praise. The album was recorded in a church where vocals were further enhanced by the natural acoustics of space, giving the compositions volume and depth. Reviewers of NPR called the album «a bold and dramatic debut,» and CLASH marked it as «one of the most original works of recent years». The song «Inori» deserves special attention, the result of a joint project with a visual artist, Nobumichi Asai, dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Fukushima accident.
Philosophy Hatis Noit is based on the belief that the human voice is the oldest and most universal musical instrument.
The voice is not limited to language or cultural code and can broadcast emotions and meanings directly without the logical structure of the speech. Its compositions are not just musical works, but a kind of ritual, an audio space in which a listener can touch the sensitive, mythological and metaphysical dimension of sound.
Thus, Hatis Noit has a unique place in the modern music environment. It shows how an intuitive approach, based on tradition and at the same time free from genre frameworks, can create new forms of sound perception and spiritual experience. Her music is a dialogue with nature, culture, and the inner world that goes without saying but speaks of the most important.
The language is limited. And the voice isn’t. Through him I speak to nature, to the world, and to what is beyond it.
