A collaboration work with sound artist / experience designer YURI SUZUKI, selected by curator Paola Antonelli.
Paola lives in NY and YURI lives in London, so all the works were done online. Installing was done by Japanese team. Hosoi was in charge of sound.

Concept
The airport is where different languages and sounds meet. By using the universal medium, sound, we restructured Japanese language and distilled each sound of our mother tongue and separated them from the specific meaning of words. This represents Japanʼs soundscape the foreign visitors experience when they step into this country and also creates the unique soundscape of global languages through integrating each and every voice of the guests from all over the world. Audiences become important components of this work and with them, the whole airport can turn into one big installation.

Curator’s Comment
To transform vision into sound, we turned to sound artist and designer, SUZUKI Yuri and to musical/sound artist and composer, HOSOI Miyu. In their concept, if different tongues can be walls between people, sound an instead build bridges by providing a soft landing‒‒especially for visitors coming from foreign countries, making them comfortable and gradually conversant with the new environment. Keeping the human voice at the core of their proposal, HOSOI and SUZUKI distilled the sounds of the Japanese language‒‒ distilled “Hiragana*” sounds, which consist of 46 base characters with 5 singular vowels, 40 consonant-vowel unions and 1 singular consonant‒‒ and created a unique composition in which the sound emanates from a choir of dozens of standing horns, that are conversing with each other like people waiting for friends and relatives in the Arrival Hall of an airport. (Paola ANTONELLI, Curator)
*Hiragana is the basic Japanese phonetic script. It represents every sound in the Japanese language.