I want to capture the last moment of the oldest meaning of me.
However, I now lost it forever.
It only exists with thousands of echo.
Within the ambient,
Within the movement,
Within the silence,
I feel so sorry.
and I now don’t know how to get there,
or even go anywhere.
In my memory, I still have the impression how it sounds like. The environment sounds like. When I pass through the train station, I still hear the sounds from somewhere else. I still can’t forget or even losing them. I know I still keep them into my mind.
After certain practice of sound hunting or exploration, I finally discover that all of the sound, in my very personal experience, is punctum according to what Barthes said. I can’t even explain the cultural aspect of the recording (excepting some of them). I also can’t say how important to this world. They are totally a very personal sonic environment or space. For me, the practice of field recording allows me to discover the world, how it sounds like. Every sound I captured, is like a photograph. Taking a photograph may have no meaning to any viewer; so sound does. I am not very interested in the means of using sounds in cultural terms. I rather like to put them in a simple way: some sounds back to myself, some sounds back to my personal interests, some sounds back to my intuition, some sounds back to something really happen, some sounds back to our daily life. I want everything is being opened, just like we should open our ears to listen the world.
Taipei Sound Unit - L’Objet Sonore Trouvé
22′03, 40.4 MB
Live @ Das Kleine Field Recording Festival
Raum, Berlin, Aug 10 2007
http://rio.recorderz.com/archives/tsu-lobjet-sonore-trouve
About my work
In my work, most of all my interest is in the existence of sound materials. Some of them give the sound well, the other is not. Anyway the materials exist. So, can we say that it gives the sound always after the existence? Or should we recognize the existence comes after the perception? If so, there is the existence which is got after the perception.
What is the perception? If we perceive something, it means we create the new relation with it. If the fact of perception is one of the parts of the whole relation, it means the perception is included in the whole relation. In this point, I think soundscape theory is important. This theory catches the sound in social or natural relations. So sound is recognized as a signal, a message, or environment. We are conscious of the number of sound, a kind, an order, length, an interval and also strength, a direction, distance, etc. Perhaps good sample is a song of birds. Their song is very interesting, and tells something. And in many cases, bird sings also recognizing our existence.
About field recording
Field recording is like taking a photograph. We ourselves go there, and we do not work on an object, but devote in observation. The object itself does not have the function which gives us a certain impression. We are going to discover a certain law or a premise among the juxtaposed object. And we will concentrate on them, in order to read a unknown message. This is not for constructing the so-called worldview. There is the function which exists before forming worldview. Then, consciousness brings various fields to light by making the perception on the spot into a referring point. For example, field of ecological environment, folkloric environment, or metaphysical field. However, They are not necessarily one. It is possible for it to be free
—- Kiyoshi Mizutani 水谷聖 (ex-Merzbow)
