Kawasaki Felt the Island's Pulsating Life-Force
Yoshihiro Kawasaki @Yakushima/Winter 1996
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Q: Hailstones at Shiratani Unsui Valley: 46k
16:00, March 9, 1996

"I set the recording equipment in a hole in a Yakusugi Cedar. It can't be the same but it's like opening the sound scene that the Yakusugi cedar is listening to. The hole is like a shelter, so the sound is filtered. It sounds real, and makes me feel as if I was actually looking at the outside from the hole."

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map of Yakushima island



B: A stream (1)
C: A stream (2)
D: Birds (1)
E: Birds (2)
F: A bird
G: Rapids (1)
H: Waves (1)
I: Monkeys (1)
J: Monkeys (2)
K: Rain and wind
L: Wind
M: Rapids (2)
N: Rapids (3)
O: Behind a water fall
P: Shiratani at night
Q: Hailstones
R: A spring and a bird
S: A spring
T: A deer (1)
U: A deer (2)
V: Waves (2)
W: Monkeys (3)
X: Water dripping
Y: A small stream