Work — Taka Yasuzawa

Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History (Pushkin Industries)

Original Score, Podcast (Including "My Little Hundred Million," winner of the 2017 Webby Award for Best Individual Episode)

Podcast, Original Score, Original MusicTaka YasuzawaApril 15, 2023Malcolm Gladwell, Revisionist History, Mia Lobel, Julia Barton, Panoply, Pushkin Industries, Podcast

Suave (Futuro Studios x PRX)

Suave (Futuro Studios x PRX)

Original Score, Podcast (Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Audio Reporting; winner of the 2021 International Documentary Award for Best Multi-Part Audio Documentary or Series)

Podcast, Original Music, Original ScoreTaka YasuzawaJanuary 16, 2023Futuro Media, Futuro Studios, Maria Hinojosa, Suave, Podcast

You Didn't See Nothin (The Invisible Institute & USG Audio)

You Didn't See Nothin (The Invisible Institute & USG Audio)

Original Score, Podcast (Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Audio Reporting & Peabody Award)

Original Score, Podcast, Original MusicTaka YasuzawaNovember 15, 2022You Didn't See Nothin, Yohance Lacour, Invisible Institute, USG Audio, Chicago, Third Coast

"Evaporated: Gone with the Gods (神隠し)" with Jake Adelstein (Campside Media)

"Evaporated: Gone with the Gods (神隠し)" with Jake Adelstein (Campside Media)

Original Music/Sound Design/Mixing, Podcast (Winner of the 2023 RadioInfo.Asia Podcast of the Year: Major)

Mixing, Podcast, Original Music, Original Score, Sound Design, Theme Music, RecordingTaka YasuzawaNovember 1, 2020Evaporated, Gone with the Gods, Tokyo Vice, Jake Adelstein, Shoko Plambeck, Campside Media

"Heavyweight" with Jonathan Goldstein (Gimlet Media)

Original Music, Podcast (including "Gregor," winner of the 2017 Third Coast Audio Festival’s Skylarking Award)

Podcast, Original MusicTaka YasuzawaOctober 15, 2020Heavyweight, Jonathan Goldstein, Podcast, Gimlet, Alex Blumberg, Gregor, Third Coast, Moby, Skylarking Award, Original Music

Broad City (Comedy Central)

Original Music, TV/Streaming

TV, Original MusicTaka YasuzawaSeptember 30, 2020Broad City, Ilana Glazer, Abbi Jacobson, TV, Comedy Central, Big Baby Gandhi, Nasty Nigel, World's Fair

Quartz Obsession (Quartz Media)

Quartz Obsession (Quartz Media)

Theme Music, Podcast

Podcast, Theme Music, Original MusicTaka YasuzawaSeptember 19, 2020Quartz, Obsession

Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles (The Players' Tribune)

Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles (The Players' Tribune)

Editing/Mixing, Podcast

Taka YasuzawaSeptember 16, 2020

"Broken Justice" (PBS NewsHour)

Theme Music, Podcast

Taka YasuzawaAugust 16, 2020PBS NewsHour, Broken Justice, Ricky Kidd, Public Defenders, Missouri

Dope Labs (Spotify Studios)

Theme Music, Podcast (including “Wakanda Forever,” 2020 Webby nominee for Best Individual Episode in Science & Education)

Original Music, Theme Music, PodcastTaka YasuzawaJuly 17, 2020Dope Labs, Spotify, Spotify Studios, Titi Shodiya, Zakiya Whatley, Podcast

"Hear to Slay" with Roxane Gay & Tressie McMillan Cottom (Luminary Media)

"Hear to Slay" with Roxane Gay & Tressie McMillan Cottom (Luminary Media)

Theme Music, Podcast

Podcast, Original Music, Theme MusicTaka YasuzawaJune 15, 2020Roxane Gay, Tressie McMillan Cottom, Hear to Slay, Podcast, Luminary, Thick, Bad Feminist, Difficult Women

Connected & Ready (Microsoft)

Connected & Ready (Microsoft)

Producer, Branded Podcast

Taka YasuzawaMay 15, 2020Microsoft, Dynamics, 365, Connected & Ready, Gemma Milne, Richard Wang, Na'ama Moran, Mary Shea

America Dissected (Crooked Media)

Theme Music, Podcast

Taka YasuzawaFebruary 15, 2020

Benjamin Walker's Theory of Everything (Radiotopia)

Original Music, Podcast

Original Music, PodcastTaka YasuzawaJanuary 15, 2020Benjamin Walker, Theory of Everything, Podcast, Radiotopia, Roman Mars, 99% Invisible, 99PI

Beats by Dre x UNDFTD Promo Video

Original Music, Online Video

Original Music, Online VideoTaka YasuzawaSeptember 3, 2019Beats, Beats by Dre, UNDFTD, Hudson Mohawke, Joey Bada$$, Tokyo, Apple Music

Keep It Social (WGBH)

Keep It Social (WGBH)

Theme Music, TV/Internet

Theme Music, TV, Online VideoTaka YasuzawaAugust 31, 2019WGBH, Boston, PBS, NPR

Rebel Eaters Club (Transmitter Media)

Rebel Eaters Club (Transmitter Media)

Theme Music, Podcast

Podcast, Original MusicTaka YasuzawaJuly 31, 2019Virgie Tovar, Transmitter Media

Radical Imagination (Policy Link & Futuro Media)

Theme Music, Podcast

Taka YasuzawaJuly 17, 2019

Hall of Shame (Crooked Media)

Hall of Shame (Crooked Media)

Theme Music & Interstitials, Podcast

Podcast, Theme MusicTaka YasuzawaJuly 12, 2019Crooked Media, Hall of Shame

Latino USA (Futuro Media)

Recording/ Engineering/Mixing, Podcast

Production, Sound Design, Mixing, Recording, PodcastTaka YasuzawaMay 1, 2019Latino USA, Podcast, Futuro Media, NPR, Maria Hinojosa