Exhibited
as part of:
Diorama of a City:
Between Site and Space
Sept 13-Oct 13, 2008
Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya

Artists: exonemo, Alex Gawronski, Paramodel,
Tim Silver, Hiraku Suzuki
Gail Priest

MP3 tracks can be found under days 2, 7, 12, 13, 18, 24, 25

A limited edition double CD of this project will be available March 2009. You can pre-order a copy here.

Past Projects

Selected audio performance

Curatorial projects

Composition for dance & performance

Sound for Installation

Radio Works

 

 

 

28 Songs for a City: Tokyo

day1 day2 day3 day4
day5 day6 day7 day8
day9 day10 day11 day12

28 days
28 locations
28 live improvisations with the city
28 earprints to mark the spot

Wandering the streets of Tokyo looking for lost objects and misplaced sounds. Each day I went to a different location in Tokyo to find a place to make a recording. Listening to the sounds around me I then sang back what I heard, improvising a small tune with the city.

Sometimes the city offered me a gift – a lost or broken object that I took away to add to my treasures. I also left a token of my appreciation in the spot, a small temporary imprint of my presence, in the shape of an ear, maybe to be discovered by someone passing by encouraging them to listen, or maybe just to be blown away by the wind, dissolved by rain or eaten by birds.

This was not investigating field recording as pure material, rather I then took the fragments, and manipulated them. I used filters and effects but did not add any extra, external material – just using what was in the recording – edited and overlayed I made multi-vocal songs for a city.

In exhibition form the 28 pieces were put on 2 ipods and visitors could choose between the tracks. Two hand made books of the earprints were displayed next to the ipods.

day13 day14 day15 day16
day17 day18 day19 day20
day21 day22 day23 day24
day25 day26 day27 day28

 

 

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