Archive for March, 2006
March 29th, 2006
Kyotos Tonal Frequency no. 3
People waiting at a Kyoto Walk Sign by Neil Meyerhoff
To hear podcast version click here
5min 37sec, 5.14MB
The first post I made in this blog was about Kyoto`s
tonal frequency or the predominant tone the city resonates in.
I made reference to Murray Schafer’s work
with the World Soundscape Project in which they discovered
that countries running on […]
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March 28th, 2006
Solar Eclipse Live
Something wonderful is happening. A total solar eclipse．I am a big astronomy buff so I get really excited about stuff like this. It can be viewed liveon Total Solar Eclipse Live from Turkey at 7pm on Wednesday 29th of March, for those of you in Japan, but the website has a way to figure out when […]
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March 28th, 2006
Dr Masaru Emoto
In response to the comment Aaron Campbell left on my blog, I thought I should make a post about Dr. Masaru Emoto. He had researched the effects of words on water. I checked out his website and couldn’t find anything about the actual research and experiments, it looks scarily new agey but you all judge […]
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March 27th, 2006
Hans Jenny : sound and matter
Hans Jenny has done many experiments on the effects of sound on matter. I found this post on the blog mediateletipos. The videos show the experiments live.
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March 23rd, 2006
Band Practice at Kyoto University
This is an amazing clip. I recorded it while walking around
outside the Kyoto University campus.
It is a great example of a sound walk.
One can hear the sounds change in dynamic
as I walk up the stairs, through a group of
chanting exercisers, a marching band,
and down stairs to find
two solo jazz musicians
and up again where another ten […]
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March 18th, 2006
Afrirampo live at The Loft in Tokyo Photos
These are some pictures I took at the Afrirampo show in Tokyo at the Loft. I did a podcast interview with them the same day it can be found in this post.
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March 17th, 2006
A post about life online.
I wrote the dissapearance after a bike ride late at night. It is about the handwriten word, Andrei Cordrescu and his book, The Dissapearance of the Outside, Kelan Phil Cohran,
emotional states and the internet. Enjoy.
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March 17th, 2006
This commentary is about a compilation of sounds and called Fluxus Anthology a colection of music and sound events collected by Walter Cianciusi posted on the blog Mediateletipos
I was drawn to the words and intrigued by the sounds
“Noise has entered our waking conscience, forcefully & can not be relinquished to the un/sub conscience. There lies […]
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March 14th, 2006
The Tunnels pt 2
In the class Behind the Mask which is primarily about minoritys in Japan, taught by Dr Preston Houser , we discussed the presentation of information within the Okinawan Tunnels which I had mentioned in my last post.
Natalie Stanchfield in her post Peace Museums, Simulations, and Interactivity mentions that the pleasant voice, souveneir stands and flute music seem to be there as […]
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March 10th, 2006
The Tunnels: the former Japanese Navy Underground Headquarters
The Battle of Okinawa 1944.
The numbers vary, the facts are unclear.
One fourth of the Okinawan population died in this battle, 120, 000 were civilians.
And 4OOO died honourable deaths, in other words commited suicide.
As I walked through the tunnels a heavy feeling pervaded my consciousness at the thought of what happened there; at the thought of […]
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