The isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs that give delight but hurt not

[imomus]

I love radio that uses sound evocatively. For instance, this excellent Radio 3 Sunday Feature about the artist Donald Judd, or the programmes made by Arte Radio. Inspired by examples like these, I've decided to do an audio blog today. It's basically all the little lofi sound files I've been capturing with my digital camera since coming to Japan in mid-July, dropped into iTunes randomly then cross-faded. It gives a rather evocative sound picture of the archipelago, I think. I've concentrated on street cries, children's songs, the sounds of nature in summer, and all the little electronic melodies that float in the air in Japanese cities, accompanying activities as banal as collecting rubbish or crossing the road. The isle is full of noises...

Japan Sound Collage, Summer 2004 (24.72 MB mp3 file, 21.35 minutes, 160 kbps, mono)

Comments

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

That and your essay on Disorienteering reminds me of a project I hope one day to have the funds for wherein it's possible to sign up for personalized packages that are visits to somewhere else. Recieve a soundclip of the ocean as it rolls in with the sound of the bicycle vendors behind you and a video clip of following someone random perhaps through the tight winding streets of the city. A letter written about how you feel in certain places, a sketch made from the roof of a building or of a pretty girl that was in the cofeeshop on tuesday.