Japanese Girls at the Harbor (album)

Japanese Girls at the Harbor is a collaborative studio album between Roberto Paci Dalò and Yasuhiro Morinaga produced at Concrete Studio in Tokyo. It is the sonorization[1] for the Japanese silent film Japanese Girls at the Harbor directed by Hiroshi Shimizu in 1933. Some of the sounds used for the project are recorded in the original shooting location at the port of Yokohama.[2]

Japanese Girls at the Harbor
Studio album by
Yasuhiro Morinaga Roberto Paci Dalò
ReleasedApril 15, 2012 (April 15, 2012)
Recorded2012
StudioConcrete Studio, Tokyo
Length47:08
ProducerConcrete and Giardini Pensili
Yasuhiro Morinaga Roberto Paci Dalò chronology
The Maya Effect
(2011)		 Japanese Girls at the Harbor
(2012)		 Ye Shanghai
(2014)

Background

The album is the first work of a project named after expression Soundograph, works to explore and create relations between silent cinema and sonic research.

Reception

Morinaga and Paci Dalo’s new soundtrack for the film creates alternative narrative structures through a complex layering of noise, voices, drones, environmental, instrumental, and electronic sounds.

-Concrete[3]

Track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Scene1"16:09
2."Scene2"13:26
3."Scene3"13:46
4."Scene4"5:40

Personnel
  • Composed, performed, and produced by Yasuhiro Morinaga and Roberto Paci Dalo
  • Field Recording by Yasuhiro Morinaga + Naoki Kato
  • Design by Roberto Paci Dalo and Eriko Sonoda
  • Feedback Drone: Naoki Kato
  • Project Manager: Azusa Yamazaki

References
  1. "Haiku Sonori E Citta' Invisibili. Il Sound Design Di Yasuiro Morinaga". Digicult. digicult.it. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  2. "Chiuso il diario per immagini di Roberto Paci Dalò from Tokio". Artribune. artribune.com. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  3. "Yasuhiro Morinaga + Roberto Paci Dalo". concrete. the-concrete.org. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
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