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Somashikiba
Field recordings by Toshiya Tsunoda in Sugaruya and Hakkeibara, Miura Peninsula, Kanagawa prefecture in 2010-2015. Mastered by Makoto Oshira. Includes liner notes by Toshiya Tsunoda in Japanese and English (English translation by Yuko Zama). Toshiya Tsunoda (Kanagawa, 1964) is a sound creator known for works of field recording and collage. For 15 years, the Yokohama based artist has been releasing remarkable acoustic works into a world that he seems to hear like no one else. His CDs are the most…
The Temple Recording
I am currently making recordings like this: I go to a certain place and choose an object Ð mainly it is a landscape, which is interesting to me. I fix a stethoscope with a small built-in air mike onto my temples. The position of the air microphone can be set anywhere near the ears, but I feel that our temples are the best and only place for that. The stethoscope captures vibrations of my muscles and blood flows. Because of the nature of the air microphone, environmental noises are recorded, t…
O kokos tis anixis (Grains of spring)
The ancient Greek philosophers thought that the world is constituted of a series of grains of space and time. When I walked around Miura Peninsula in the springtime, I felt the same way - the quality of the space and the time seemed to be formed by a series of grains of sounds. Each place has its own unique character. You could label it as a particular quality of the place. The quality of the sound.'-'This is one of my trials to present a 'subject' as a piece of work - which can be called…
Familial Readings
There is no CD sleeve... only disc in the ordinary jewel case. Limited edition of 300 copies. “Luke Fowler is an experimental filmmaker. His work is a kind of anti-documental work. We are working together, recently. He asked his family and close friend by telephone. He says “Just read a paragraph that you reading book right now.” He collects 8 readings. Luke and I made an installation together in Yokohama. We used 16mm film with no sound. I recorded the blank soundtrack of it. (you can hear at t…