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Experimental Music Lab
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A lab exploring experimental music and sound art through voice, silence, and the sounds of place.
AboutAbout the lab
Tracing voice, silence, and the sounds of place through works and research
The lab of Assistant Professor Tomoko Hojo centers on experimental music and sound art, studying voice, silence, and the sounds of place.
Its themes are the politics of the voice in screaming, voice, silence, and the body, and the memory and listening of place.
Alongside its research, the lab also presents works in Japan and abroad.
In education, the lab emphasizes a perspective that considers sound in connection with the body, place, memory, and social context.
Key terms
- Vocal norms
- In modern Western society, women's voices have been regarded as harmonious, compliant, and emotionally restrained.
- Two Virgins
- A 1968 work by Yoko Ono. The lab analyzes the acoustic characteristics of the screams in it.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab explores voice, screaming, silence, and the sounds of place through methods such as acoustic analysis, field recording, and performance. Through both analysis and artistic production, it examines how sound relates to the body, place, and society.
*Illustrative imageThe Politics of the Voice in Screaming
In modern Western society, women's voices were considered harmonious and compliant, while screaming was excluded as deviant. The lab acoustically quantifies and analyzes the scream in Yoko Ono's Two Virgins (1968) to examine its potential to deviate from the norms of women's voices.
*Illustrative imageExpression Centered on Voice, Silence, and the Body
The lab studies sound art and performance centered on voice, silence, and bodily constraints. It also presents works that deal with audibility, embodiment, and silence through screams that do not fully become voice.
*Illustrative imageThe Memory of Place and Listening
The lab researches field recording and listening scores in relation to the memory of place and listening. Its research keywords also include soundscape, sound environment, and archives.
MembersFaculty
- Assistant ProfessorTomoko Hojo
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “-include red, 2017 GRAYCODE, jiiiiin(Taebok Cho, Jinhee Jung)” Wikixxzz / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- The Politics of the Voice in Screaming: “Open dress rehearsal of the Jerusalem Vocal Consort at the Umberto Nahon Museum of Italian Jewish Art, 31 July 2025 34” מקף־עברי / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Expression Centered on Voice, Silence, and the Body: “Mandrem Beach and Mandrem River, Mandrem, Goa, India (edit)” Original: Vyacheslav Argenberg Derivative work: UnpetitproleX / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- The Memory of Place and Listening: “Piezo contact microphone recording Moerputtenbrug. 01” Klankbeeld / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Experimental Music Lab): “Marcel Gnauk from Free To Use Sounds recording sounds in Iceland” Free To Use Sounds / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Media Art Lab): “-App-for-interactive-Installations” Einsgoeins / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Media Art Lab (Kazuhiro Jo)): “Captured, immersive installation by Hanna Haaslahti, 2021” Tomumaja / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Musicology Lab): “"2me Solo de Concert Pour le hautbois avec accompagnement à grand orchestre composé par G. Vogt" (manuscrit autographe) - btv1b of 88)” Vogt, Gustave ( ). Compositeur / Public domain (cropped)
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