Sound in Japanese Art in the 1970s

Kaneko Tomotaro’s field is aesthetics and aural culture. He has organized the Japanese Art Sound Archive since 2017. His recent publications include Oto no Hon wo Yomou: Oto to Geijutsu wo Meguru Book Guide (Reading Books on Sound: A Guide to Writings on Sound and Art) (Nakanishiya Shuppan, 2024), “Arranging Sounds from Daily Life: Amateur Sound-Recording Contests and Audio Culture in Japan in the 1960s and 1970s” (in Asian Sound Cultures: Voice, Noise, Sound, Technology, Routledge, 2023), and a Japanese translation of Jonathan Sterne’s book The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (tr. Nakagawa Katsushi, Kaneko Tomotaro, and Taniguchi Fumikazu, Inscript, 2015).