Tomoko Hojo & Rahel Kraft - Shinonome (2020)

For Shinonome 東雲, an old Japanese word that describes a specific experience of light at dawn, Tomoko Hojo and Rahel Kraft explored the acoustics of dawn in relationship to walking. Due to reduced visual inputs our auditory sensibility is expanded and we perceive sounds which we normally don’t hear. Dawn is a transition between night and day, dreaming and being awake, light and dark, silence and loudness, natural and supernatural, a daily phenomenon which is rarely connected to the sonic but rather to the visual impact during the blue hour.

'Shinonome' consist of field and voice recordings, electronic and acoustic sounds. Several sonic interventions and listening walks in response to structure and atmosphere are building the source material. The exchange of recorded dawn-diaries, as well as Japanese, Chinese, English and German literature related the theme made a starting point for shared perceptions. Hojo+Kraft even travelled to northern Norway to record and compose during the polar lights.