ErstPast – 001-5 Part One / Two
Toshiya Tsunoda is a Japanese sound artist whose quarter century of
exploration into field recording has been a huge influence on many other
great artists working in similar territory. His archival series of
three themed sets of field recording studies, released on three
different labels from 1997 to 2001, 'Extract From Field Recording
Archive #1-#3”, lay the groundwork for so much of what followed, both
from Tsunoda and many others.
All the sounds in the original three releases (#1-#3) were physical
vibrations recorded in outdoor and indoor environments from 1993 to
1999, in the port service area in the Miura Peninsula where he was born
and grew up, as well as at the neighbor ports.
Also, CD 1-3 are not identical to the originally issued ones. Now all
the tracks have exactly the same durations as Tsunoda's original DAT
recordings. All the tracks were remastered from these original DAT
recordings for this box set. Thus, the duration of each track and each
CD are different from the previously released ones. Also, the track
lists on Extract #2 (CD 2) and Extract #3 (CD 3) are slightly modified
from the original releases, as detailed in the booklet.
In addition to those three, for this reissue box Tsunoda compiled two
new albums. CD 4, 'Extract From Field Recording Archive #4', contains
his previously unpublished recordings of the Nagaura Port from the same
period as #1-#3, and CD 5, 'Reflection-Revisiting', contains more recent
recordings from 2007-2018, in which he revisited some of the original
port areas, looking for a certain continuity between his ideas in the
past and the present, while also discovering the differences between the
two periods.
"My purpose for these recordings in the nineties was to observe
vibrations, and at the same time to find the observation point for each
recording. For some very subtle, inaudible vibrations, a special method
of observation such as installing a contact microphone inside a bottle
or a particular observation point is required. It can be said that the
object of the vibration and the act of observation are inseparable. I
think that it is not really 'detection' or 'documenting', but is more
likely closer to 'depiction'. The word 'depiction' has a nuance of both
watching and portraying an object simultaneously."
"By using small microphones and contact microphones, I tried to detect
vibrations that were integrated with the presence of the place, like the
vague images existing in the lowest layer of our perception. The space
that could be observed in this way was quite different from how we
perceive the actual place as a space." (from liner notes by Toshiya
Tsunoda)
The extensive liner notes were newly written by Toshiya Tsunoda for this box set.
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