On flickr yet.

This is definitely my favorite shot among all the photos I took in Egypt. Others are on flickr.

I haven’t posted anything here for a while (I guess I’ve lost the few readers who were following) and I won’t be writing in the 2 coming weeks; tomorrow I’ll be flying to Japan and then staying in Kobe, as usual. I’ll also spend 5 days in Tokyo from 28. I checked the concerts scheduled for the 2 weeks both in Osaka/Kobe and Tokyo.
On 23rd I’ll attend concerts of Merzbow, Nobukazu Takemura, Pita, etc, at Sunsui, Osaka (my day of arrival, jet lag + noise might be tough…). And since I’m in Tokyo on 30th, I’ll definitely attend the event organized by mantle musics at loop-line.

A few venues which usually have a good experimental music program (among many others):
SuperDeluxe, Tokyo [http://www.super-deluxe.com]
loop-line, Tokyo [http://www.loop-line.jp]
Sunsui, Osaka [http://www.sunsui.net]
Bridge, Osaka [http://www.beyond-innocence.org currently down?]

A good source for japanese experimental music:
http://japanimprov.com

Taken in Kyoto, summer 2003.

Perhaps my favorite photo taken in Morocco.

This is a panorama of the Osaka Bay I’ve made by mixing 3 photos. I did shoot from the Rokko Mountain on top of Kobe. A unique landscape with all these artificial islands…

Beijing’s market in November 2006. This market is under control of the chinese authorities, that’s why all the cooks and food stalls look the same. But the food was excellent. I didn’t try insects and snakes though… Listen to the recording below.

In January I went fishing in Akashi, close to Kobe. Don’t believe I’m a good fisherman, it was the first time I fished and I only managed to catch one very small fish in 3 hours! While I was fishing I started hearing a strident sound… I wondered who the hell was doing it… the Yaki Imo man!! “Yaki Imo” means baked sweet potato. During winter the Yaki Imo man drives a light truck with cooking equipement carried on the back. The strident sound comes from the log-fired oven. And normally the vendor sings “ya-ki imo…ishiyakiimo” to announce his presence (actually it’s a tape recording that loops). People run to it as they hear it!

Photo and recording done in november 2006 at Wat Phrathat Doi Suthep (ดอยสุเทพ), a thai temple located 15 km from Chiang Mai.

I was in Beijing (北京) some months ago and I recorded a musician playing erhu (二胡) close to Tiananmen Square. He was playing in a tunnel under the huge street in front of the Forbidden City’s main gate. The sound was beautiful, I guess this man chose this place for its natural reverberation. I feel nostalgic (for what?) every time I listen to this music…

I used an Edirol R-09 for recording.