When you enter the storehouse after walking through the garden full of seasonal flowers and plants, you find holy bronze mirrors slowly turning in the darkness, reflecting rainbow lights on the silk fabrics around them and the whole space. At the side of the room, you see a written story by the artist’s grandfather, who majored in geophysics at Kyoto University, about his memorable classes in space physics and quantum mechanics. The electronic sound generated based on the seismic waveform recorded by her grandfather in the land of Kamigamo in 1935, and the sound of "Mizorogaike pond", which has a long history and maintains rare and rich biodiversity, recorded by Tomoko and a sound artist Masahiko Takeda throughout the four seasons, are woven together in the space with lights. The vitality of the creatures in the deep mud pond, such as the birds singing while bathing in the morning sun, the sound of deer heard in the distance, the sound of fish laying eggs bouncing in the pond, and the vibration of the energy of the earth when her grandfather lived, resonate and weave together in the space.
Materials:
Digital sounds were generated from seismic waves that artist’s grandfather recorded in 1935 in Kamigamo, Kyoto.
Sounds recorded at Midorogaike Pond, Japanese Mirror, Silk organza, sound speakers, quotes from the autobiography of Hajime Hayashi.
In collaboration with Masahiko Takeda, Kazuomi Eshima
