When we turn our attention to parks, we find that they are home to historical monuments and sites, places where visitors come and go and casually pass their time, and are also filled with a wide variety of sounds. Taking this everyday context as a profile of our current times, Hosoi asked people from different backgrounds to each collect sounds within the park from their own perspectives. With an eye toward analyzing the sounds collected through future advances in acoustics, she created a research-based work that will be publicly archived in libraries and museums as a historical reference documenting the current state of the park.

The sounds collected for the work are played overlappingly from the speakers used in the park’s broadcasts, indicating that even the present moment is a part of the park’s history of sounds.

Photography : So Mitsuya

About the recording

– Subjective recordings were made by friends (writers, garden researchers, measuring instrument manufacturer, sound engineers, etc.) who were asked by Hosoi to look at the world from different perspectives.
– Ono Sokki Co., Ltd. recorded sounds outside the audible range (1 Hz – 100 kHz).
– Simultaneous multipoint recording by about 30 people, including public participants, by Sound One, Inc.
– IR recording (64 channels) of Hibiya Public Hall by Ono Sokki and Yamaha Corporation