An attempt to visualize the soundscape.
The concept of “soundscape,” proposed in the late 1960s by the Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer (1933–), has since been explored and developed by various artists and researchers.

In Sonicscape, I extend the idea of landscape—an origin of the term “soundscape”—by incorporating the ambient sounds of a specific location and rendering them visible.

This work focuses on Tokoname City in Aichi, Japan. Using a 4×5 large-format camera, I recorded both the visible landscape and its surrounding sounds simultaneously. The negatives were then developed in the darkroom, and the final image was fixed onto photographic paper through the technique of sonic photogram.