Why always rely on the visual: we have other senses as well. Sounds can tell a lot about a place...

My first sound observation is a recording I made while in Tokyo some years back. The city impressed me with its chaotic fullness and variety of sounds: machines, people, announcements, construction. Its loudness was particularly disturbing after having spent the previous week in the peaceful mountain village of Oginoshima. This sound recording, then, documents both the sounds of Tokyo and my search for peace, for “My Oginoshima.” It is a crude recording, executed while carrying and using a camera, a sketchbook, a towel, food, water, and while sweating in the August sun trying as best as possible to find my way through the Tokyo crowds and complicated transportation system, in the search, like all tourists, for memorable or significant artifacts.

I'M WORKING ON PUTTING THE RECORDINGS UP... EXPERIENCING SOME TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES.