Sonic Japan

06/11/2022

Now that Japan is open again, we will be uploading new recordings! Meanwhile I enjoyed the exhibition ‘listen to the sound of the earth turning’ at Roppongi Hills.

27/12/2020

It’s finally here!! Hope you can access it in libraries, or in the e-book format as the paperback is a little bit farther down the line.

18/02/2020

Coming soon!

10/07/2019

New sounds, new posts!

28/06/2019

Relaunching website at new URL:

Public places in the crowded streets of Shinjuku in Tokyo are usually filled with movement, talking and the sounds emanating from shops. Whilst walking through West Shinjuku, I was minding my business walking to my destination. I stopped when I saw a sea of people standing outside Yodabashi camera.....

20/01/2019

https://globalvoices.org/2019/01/14/sound-footage-of-kyoto-japan-from-1929/ #

What makes this film notable is that it features actual sound footage of Japanese city life at that time. Usually, newsreels from that era are silent.

19/11/2018

Presenting today at Reed College!

31/08/2018

Team Sonic presenting at the anthropology seminar at the Tniversity of Melbourne, 31 August

20/05/2018

Sonic Japan features in Monash news

A team of researchers from universities including Harvard, Nichibunken, Melbourne University, and Monash Japanese Studies Professor Carolyn Stevens, are collecting sounds of Japan to develop a ‘sonic repository’ of the country.

14/05/2018

This one's for the unlikely voices out there!

Born in England and educated at Cambridge, she found her true calling on Japanese television analyzing the quintessential Japanese sport.