108: Walking Through Tokyo at the Turn of the Century

by Sarah Peebles

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1.	1 Fast Kitchen (South Shinjuku area) 05:13		buy track
2.	Yes, Christo (God is Eternal) 03:57		buy track
3.	3 Shinjuku Station (south entrance) 02:52		buy track
4.	4 Train Ride on Sobu Line (free) 07:58		download
5.	5 Three Active Serves (video arcade, Yotsuya) (free) 02:30		download
6.	6 Pachinko (Yotsuya) 06:57	info	buy track
7.	7 New Year's Bells (Nishi Nippori) 08:24		buy track
8.	8 Kendo at Dawn (Japan University of Physical Education) 02:01		buy track
9.	9 Street car Ride (Setagaya Line) 00:41		buy track
10.	10. 3 for ¥500 (merchants at Ameyoko) 05:50		buy track
11.	11 Epilogue 03:07		buy track

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By Sarah Peebles, 2001. Recorded December 1999–January 2000, January 1986. Cover photo by Sarah Peebles; design by Dajuin Yao.

A walk through the city, the microphone reveals the soundscape in a way one would perhaps perceive the world while walking: one’s attention focused and refocused in any given moment, the lines between reality, imagined, and remembered blurred. Tokyo’s ambient sonic environment is especially active and compelling. Even the space between sounds reveals intriguing aspects of this place, a city which has several large centres, each with their own distinct character, and no one down town core. These fifty minutes weave together modern and traditional hawking, evangelists' sermonizing, train riding, a video arcade and pachinko parlour, kendo en masse, and, at the centre of the piece, "joya no kane" — the annual ringing of temple bells 108 times at 12:00 A.M. each New Years Eve.

Video version of "108 - Walking Through Tokyo" (Christie Pearson - photos & Sarah Peebles - audio) 2018, 50:35 minutes, colour, stereo soundscape at www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGQPzqK21mY&t=2s and distributed by Vtape vtape.org/video?vi=8890

Full description & notes per track: www.sarahpeebles.net/tokyo.htm.

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released January 1, 2002

Commissioned and broadcast by “L'espace du son” on Chaîne culturelle of Radio-Canada. Premiered February 3, 2001. Mario Gauthier, producer; Denis Frenette, mastering technician. Mastered at Studio 30, Radio-Canada, Montreal. Audio © 2001 Sarah Peebles (ASCAP for the World; SOCAN for Canada) and (P) Radio-Canada/Chaîne culturelle radio (www.radio-canada.ca).

Released as Enhanced audio CD on Post-Concrète records (post-004, 2002): soundscape with images of Tokyo's architecture, public spaces and life, by Christie Pearson, and an essay on Tokyo's soundscape past and present (in Japanese and English) by the late Yoshimura Hiroshi. Cover photo by Sarah Peebles; design by Dajuin Yao.

“Pachinko (Yotsuya)” audio section includes ambient recording excerpt of "KOKODE KISS SHITE" by Sheena Ringo (3rd Maxi-Single January 20,1999 TOCT- 4133). Published by Yamaha Music Foundation/Solid Bond. 1999 Toshiba EMI Limited/Solid Bond. Licensed courtesy of Toshiba EMI Limited. Used with permission.

"108" is dedicated to the late Professor Kei-Ichiro Watanabe, who so generously gave to his students, friends and family.

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Sarah Peebles Toronto, Ontario

Sarah Peebles is an installation artist, composer and music improvisor in Toronto. Her installation art with native bees is catalogued at Resonating Bodies (below). More music & sound-art:
www.sarahpeebles.net/recordings.htm

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