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Shinkansen

by Simon-Mary Vincent

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Shinkansen is an exploration of sounds that I recorded in the course of a 3-week visit to Japan in the summer of 1998.

Visits to many of the country's varied landscapes and cityscapes – ranging from more rural, family environments on the island of Kyushu through to Osaka, Kyoto, and the capital city Tokyo itself – were punctuated by travel on the famous Shinkansen trains, something which this composition reflects in the way it moves between 'scenes'.

Many of these sounds are presented untreated as 'sonic postcards', most prominently in the cases of an amusement park in Osaka and the chant of a buddhist Monk recorded, with permission, at the home of a family in Saga during the Obon Festival season.

Other sounds have been treated extensively and serve to convey both the idea of travel between locations and the very notion of a Shinkansen train itself, notably at the beginning and conclusion of the work.

“Shinkansen should take its place alongside Herbert Distel’s
radiophonic classic Die Reise (1988) in a relatively small but
inspiring genre of electroacoustic rail fantasias.”
Julian Cowley, The Wire

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released April 1, 2024
© Simon-Mary Vincent (PRS/BMI), 2000, 2024
℗ Vision Of Sound (BMI), 2000, 2024

Photography: Nigel Walker.
© Nigel Walker, 2023

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