village tones, 2019
(feat. Naho Murata)
audio-visual sound art performance featuring live papermaking and live papermaking sampling; additional samples and video made from field recordings done by the artist in the Echizen papermaking region, and; original sound waves crafted by the artist to represent collected datasets regarding river systems and papermaking plant cultivation from 1926 to 2018
Udatsu Paper & Craft Museum, Japan
The most recent story I wish to tell is one of water. This interest has come from my time living in a papermaking region, and realizing the importance of water to the livelihood of craft communities. For this story, I utilize research, data, and sound. I generate sound waves from environmental research data, and perform them live alongside video and paper installation. The data I use in this work have far-reaching implications — in this case, on the papermaking village I have come to call home. These soundscapes thus enable an audience to experience meaningful data beyond the constraints of cryptic charts and graphs.
