Tomoko Hojo + Rahel Kraft - Shinonome
| Artists: | Rahel Kraft, Tomoko Hojo |
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| Genres: | Ambient, Electroacoustic, Minimal Field Recording |
| Released: | 2020 |
| Type: | Album |
| Label: | Line |
| Link: | Bandcamp |
For Shinonome 東雲, an old Japanese word that describes a specific experience of light at dawn, Tomoko Hojo and Rahel Kraft explored the acoustics of dawn in relationship to walking. Due to reduced visual inputs our auditory sensibility is expanded and we perceive sounds which we normally don’t hear. Dawn is a transition between night and day, dreaming and being awake, light and dark, silence and loudness, natural and supernatural, a daily phenomenon which is rarely connected to the sonic but rather to the visual impact during the blue hour....
'Shinonome' consist of field and voice recordings, electronic and acoustic sounds. Several sonic interventions and listening walks in response to structure and atmosphere are building the source material. The exchange of recorded dawn-diaries, as well as Japanese, Chinese, English and German literature related the theme made a starting point for shared perceptions. Hojo+Kraft even travelled to northern Norway to record and compose during the polar lights.
Originally, this work is created as geo-localised audio walk during a residency at ZKM - Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe Germany 2018 for MyCityMySounds. It is placed at the Schlossgarten in Karlsruhe, a place between nature/city, animals/humans, noice/silence, center/periphery.
released July 10, 2020
'Shinonome' consist of field and voice recordings, electronic and acoustic sounds. Several sonic interventions and listening walks in response to structure and atmosphere are building the source material. The exchange of recorded dawn-diaries, as well as Japanese, Chinese, English and German literature related the theme made a starting point for shared perceptions. Hojo+Kraft even travelled to northern Norway to record and compose during the polar lights.
Originally, this work is created as geo-localised audio walk during a residency at ZKM - Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe Germany 2018 for MyCityMySounds. It is placed at the Schlossgarten in Karlsruhe, a place between nature/city, animals/humans, noice/silence, center/periphery.
released July 10, 2020
Editions:
2020
Original Release
Line
| LINE_113
| Digital
| 01. | Tomoko Hojo & Rahel Kraft | ‐ | Resounding Entities | (1:30) | |
| 02. | Tomoko Hojo & Rahel Kraft | ‐ | Revealing Unknown Beings | (2:34) | |
| 03. | Tomoko Hojo & Rahel Kraft | ‐ | Melted Into Darkness | (3:33) | |
| 04. | Tomoko Hojo & Rahel Kraft | ‐ | While Your Body Is Asleep | (2:15) | |
| 05. | Tomoko Hojo & Rahel Kraft | ‐ | The Lowest Level of the Ocean | (5:03) | |
| 06. | Tomoko Hojo & Rahel Kraft | ‐ | The Hours Descend | (2:49) | |
| 07. | Tomoko Hojo & Rahel Kraft | ‐ | Far Rumbling Vibrations | (3:02) | |
| 08. | Tomoko Hojo & Rahel Kraft | ‐ | I Open Every Door | (1:42) | |
| 09. | Tomoko Hojo & Rahel Kraft | ‐ | Elastic Rubber Boat | (2:48) | |
| 10. | Tomoko Hojo & Rahel Kraft | ‐ | The Smell of a Dream | (5:03) | |
| 11. | Tomoko Hojo & Rahel Kraft | ‐ | Probabilities and Possibilities | (3:32) | |
| 12. | Tomoko Hojo & Rahel Kraft | ‐ | Shinonome | (17:36) |