For the past 15 years Toshiya Tsunoda has
been creating acoustic works, he is renown
for attention to detail and
individual style of sound that he creates.. Followers of his
work say that
Tsunoda ‘seems to hear like no one else’.
He is Currently working in
Yokohama, Japan however he originally studied
at Tokyo’s National University of Fine
Art and Music. During his time in Tokyo
studying Tsunoda developed a background
in fine art and more specifically in
oil painting.
When developing a field recording, Tsunoda
constantly considers the listener and what
his audience will make of the
recording. He aims to create works that are ‘like meeting
a familiar friend’.
He wants to recreate the experience of landscape like a photo can but he
does
it through sound. This is particularly important to Tsunoda as it means each
member
of an audience has a individual experience of his work. It evokes
different memories and
emotions for each listener. The audience is so important
in creating work Tsunoda even
considers the listeners to ‘become part of the
subject matter of the artwork’
As well as recreating landscapes through
sound Tsunoda is also interested in revealing
sounds that would otherwise go
unnoticed. He use multiple extremely sensitive
microphones all placed through
out a space to capture the sounds that we normally
miss, he also captures sound
by using stethoscopes and vibrations. Some of the more
interesting and
unexpected sound that Tsunoda has captured include: the sound of air in a
glass
bottle as well as electromagnetic interference. Before I started looking in to
sound
art I had no idea that air in a bottle made a sound? Tsunoda is
passionate about finding a
seemingly mundane space or object and highlighting
all the interesting sounds that can
be produced.
Tsunoda produced The Temple Recording during January 2013. The work originated
from a field recording taken at Minamishitaura, Miura city Kanagawa, Japan. In
total the piece is 16:52 min. while listening to this I begin to understand what Tsunoda
meant by his work seeming like a ‘familiar friend’ The sounds are very universal, its highly
likely that each listener would have heard something similar before. This is a
really important aspect of the work, it gives it a whole new dimension as you start to
associate these sounds your hearing with a memory that familiars. As a listener we
are constantly trying to identify a sound and put it in a category, we are constantly trying
to justify and make sense of these sometimes very abstract sounds. This on one hand
is beneficial as it gives us a more personal connection to the work. However as we
are constantly analysing what we are hearing and trying to justify it,
perhaps we are miss some of what the artist has created.
Tsunoda produced The Temple Recording during January 2013. The work originated
from a field recording taken at Minamishitaura, Miura city Kanagawa, Japan. In
total the piece is 16:52 min. while listening to this I begin to understand what Tsunoda
meant by his work seeming like a ‘familiar friend’ The sounds are very universal, its highly
likely that each listener would have heard something similar before. This is a
really important aspect of the work, it gives it a whole new dimension as you start to
associate these sounds your hearing with a memory that familiars. As a listener we
are constantly trying to identify a sound and put it in a category, we are constantly trying
to justify and make sense of these sometimes very abstract sounds. This on one hand
is beneficial as it gives us a more personal connection to the work. However as we
are constantly analysing what we are hearing and trying to justify it,
perhaps we are miss some of what the artist has created.
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