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
Released	April 15, 2012 (April 15, 2012)
Recorded	2012
Studio	Concrete Studio, Tokyo
Length	47:08
Producer	Concrete 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

According to Concrete, "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."[3]

Track listing

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

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