Hiroshi Yoshimura – Soundscape 1: Surround

“If Surround can be listened to as music that’s as close to air itself, allowing us to enter each listener’s sound scenery, or as something that exists within a new perspective, expanding the middle ground between sound and music, and transforming it into a comfortable space, it would be much appreciated.” Perhaps the quintessential Kankyō Ongaku “environmental music” album, Surround was recorded by Yoshimura as a commission from home builder Misawa Homes, intended to enhance the company’s newly built living spaces. The composer recommends listening “with the addition of city noise from outside the window” and placed in the same family of sounds “as the vibration of footsteps, the hum of an air conditioner, or the clanging of a spoon inside a coffee cup.”

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