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So it’s been a couple years since I lived in Japan. Yeah I miss my friends. I miss the fashion. I miss the awesome restaurants. I miss that homeless man who would read his collection of comic book hentai to me. But oddly enough, the things I miss most from Japan are the ‘sounds’.
In retrospect I feel like Pavlov’s dog, and I’m sure other people who have extended stays in Japan can relate. Japan, and Tokyo in particular, furiously bombards you with electronic bells, whistles, and oddly mesmerizing public service announcements spoken by pretty Japanese ladies wherever you go. At the shinkansen. At the malls. Every time you would walk into a store or restaurant. Hell, even when I was at work we’d have this ring tone that would go off around the whole floor that would inform us the current shift had ended. Japan is an audiophile’s dream (and here I just thought I was a pedophile. I kid! I kid!).
With that said, here is my next goal:
To revisit Japan and record all the metropolitan sounds I can. I want to package them all up, and maybe embed them in a small program that I can develop for my Mac. That way, I’ll always have a piece of Japan with me (and an even cooler Mac!).
