Cities are pictured in people’s minds, they are an imaginary, conceptual phenomenon. Fictional Soundscapes is a project that continuously blends sounds from various cities to create new fabricated environmental sounds. Soundscapes from cities around the world are automatically mixed and non-existent landscapes are generated through the computer algorithms so that this sound-art piece lets listeners/viewers speculate about a meta-city that does not actually exist now. The sounds of the crowd, trams, the whispering of the sea and forests——what kind of city do you imagine from this blended, fabricated soundscape? <img src="https://images.microcms-assets.io/assets/66ab9e2c06c2405d90ae7a1af3ad1351/5ba2449ee8dc4d7991afda170644d124/DSC_8030%5BWeb%5D.jpg" alt=""><img src="https://images.microcms-assets.io/assets/66ab9e2c06c2405d90ae7a1af3ad1351/dcc96bc86ca74e26926a02c4da0aa4cc/DSC_8026%5BWeb%5D.jpg" alt=""><img src="https://images.microcms-assets.io/assets/66ab9e2c06c2405d90ae7a1af3ad1351/e51fdaf8cb3a40d5a928f5306cf6e7cd/DSC_8024%5BWeb%5D.jpg" alt=""><img src="https://images.microcms-assets.io/assets/66ab9e2c06c2405d90ae7a1af3ad1351/f4225cc7e68b4d818e31fdcf2ea58658/DSC_8021%5BWeb%5D.jpg" alt=""><iframe class="embedly-embed" src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fplayer.vimeo.com%2Fvideo%2F659221967%3Fh%3D87a359f216%26app_id%3D122963&dntp=1&display_name=Vimeo&url=https%3A%2F%2Fvimeo.com%2F659221967&image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.vimeocdn.com%2Fvideo%2F1331824456-e36b95bedad0f480d6c27b04017bac104dada6eead8ac5695a7b505299df96f1-d_1280&key=94335756f04b424b8ce3ce71cbe3de0a&type=text%2Fhtml&schema=vimeo" width="1920" height="1080" scrolling="no" title="Vimeo embed" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe> Credit Composition: Kenta Tanaka Software Engineering: Ryo Yumoto - Additional sounds of field recording from https://www.zapsplat.com

都市は、人々の心の中で思い描かれ、想像される概念的な現象であるとするなら——。この《Fictional Soundscapes》は、あらゆる都市における環境音をミックスし続けることで、架空の環境音を生成するプロジェクト。世界中のあらゆる地点からの環境音が混ざり続け、さらにコンピュータが存在しない風景を生成し続けることでここではないどこかの架空都市の可能態を想像させる。人々の雑踏、路面電車、海や森の囁き——これらが混じり合った架空のサウンドスケープから、あなたはどのような都市を思い浮かべるだろうか？ <img src="https://images.microcms-assets.io/assets/66ab9e2c06c2405d90ae7a1af3ad1351/f77ab33f71cb431ba91b2630b25ae8c8/DSC_8030%5BWeb%5D.jpg" alt=""><img src="https://images.microcms-assets.io/assets/66ab9e2c06c2405d90ae7a1af3ad1351/fe556b6011b44948984345c86662c8e0/DSC_8026%5BWeb%5D.jpg" alt=""><img src="https://images.microcms-assets.io/assets/66ab9e2c06c2405d90ae7a1af3ad1351/8d15472fb25a4917baf9e0c5a10ae0b8/DSC_8024%5BWeb%5D.jpg" alt=""><img src="https://images.microcms-assets.io/assets/66ab9e2c06c2405d90ae7a1af3ad1351/ecf8e6938dad4e4880d87bd205c3413c/DSC_8021%5BWeb%5D.jpg" alt=""><iframe class="embedly-embed" src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fplayer.vimeo.com%2Fvideo%2F659221967%3Fh%3D87a359f216%26app_id%3D122963&dntp=1&display_name=Vimeo&url=https%3A%2F%2Fvimeo.com%2F659221967&image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.vimeocdn.com%2Fvideo%2F1331824456-e36b95bedad0f480d6c27b04017bac104dada6eead8ac5695a7b505299df96f1-d_1280&key=94335756f04b424b8ce3ce71cbe3de0a&type=text%2Fhtml&schema=vimeo" width="1920" height="1080" scrolling="no" title="Vimeo embed" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe> Credit Composition: Kenta Tanaka Software Engineering: Ryo Yumoto - Additional sounds of field recording from https://www.zapsplat.com

Cities are pictured in people’s mind, they are an imaginary, conceptual phenomenon. Fictional Soundscapes is a project that continously blends sounds from various cities to create new fabricated environmental sounds. Sounds from places around the world are connected to infromation of the Kaihimmakuhari Station vicinity, and while the sounds are familiar, the environmental sounds which manifest are from a city that does not actually exist. The sounds of the crowd, trams, the whispering of the sea and forests——what kind of city do you imagine from this blended, fabricated soundscape?

都市は、人々の心の中で思い描かれ、想像される概念的な現象であるとするなら——。この《Fictional Soundscapes》は、あらゆる都市における環境音をミックスし続けることで、架空の環境音を生成するプロジェクト。世界中のあらゆる地点からの環境音が、海浜幕張駅周辺の情報と連動することで、耳馴染みがあるけれど、実際にはどこにも存在しない都市の環境音が立ち現れる。人々の雑踏、路面電車、海や森の囁き——これらが混じり合った架空のサウンドスケープから、あなたはどのような都市を思い浮かべるだろうか？