Audiowalk Shinonome 東雲

For the geo-localised audio walk SHINONOME 東雲 Tomoko Hojo and Rahel Kraft explored the acoustics of dawn in relationship to walking and light during their residency at ZKM – Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe Germany. Due to reduced visual inputs our auditory sensibility is expanded and we perceive sounds which are normally overheard. Dawn is a transition between night and day, dreaming and being awake, light and dark, silence and loudness, natural and supernatural, a daily phenomenon which is rarely connected to the sonic but rather to the visual impact during the blue hour. 

Total lengths: 12 compositions with a total lenghts of 50 minutes

The exchange of recorded dawn-diaries, as well as Japanese, Chinese, English and German literature related the theme, made a starting point for shared perceptions and memories. In search for a site with various transitions, Hojo+Kraft choose the Schlossgarten in Karlsruhe as a place between nature/city, animals/humans, noice/silence, center/periphery. Several sonic interventions and listening walks in response to the structure and atmosphere of the Schlossgarten were conducted. Field and voice recordings melted into a collection of audible traces and boundaries, the trembling feeling towards unidentified sounds and the perception of time during twilight.

APP BACKGROUND

Shinonome is an audio walk composed for and with the smartphone app MyCityMySounds developed by the institute of music and acoustics at ZKM – Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe Germany. My CityMySounds is an interactive interface to geo–localise various audio formats, to create a virtual city space through sound. Prior to this work Hojo+Kraft have developed their own geo–localised audio walk app INNERN in collaboration with musician/programmer Urban Lienert in 2018. 

ARTICLE

The article about the ZKM’s app My City My Sounds including Hojo+Kraft’s work Shinonome 東雲 was published in the magazine Neue Zeitschrift für Musik in March 2019.