Workshop
Inspiration Dojo “Introduction to Sound Design: Finding unknown sounds”
Overview
◆Introduction to Sound Design: Finding unknown sounds
If you listen more carefully, do the everyday sounds of the city sound different? Let’s experience the fascinating world of sound. In this workshop, participants use microphones to rediscover the sounds they hear every day, and experience the different soundscapes at each location. With a microphone and the dedicated app Hirameku Sampler, participants head out into the city to collect the various sounds that abound in Harajuku. This technique, known as field recording, allows participants to explore the invisible world of sound. Listen carefully to the various sounds in the city and you may well hear things you’ve never heard before. Let’s experience the incredible world of sound together!
★What Are Microphones and Speakers? Sound is produced when objects or the air vibrate. A microphone (or mic) is an electrical device that uses a diaphragm to capture different kinds of sound vibrations, including our voices, a clap, or the sound of a piano, and converts them into an electrical signal using a coil. A speaker then receives that electrical signal and uses a magnet and voice coil to vibrate a diaphragm, turning the signal back into sound. Microphones convert sound vibrations into electrical signals, and speakers convert electrical signals into vibrations. We make use of this technology in many aspects of our everyday lives, such as recording, playing back, and broadcasting sound! ◆Inspiration Dojo Civic Creative Base Tokyo’s Inspiration Dojo is a workshop program for people to learn how to make things using digital technology. With fabrication equipment available at CCBT, participants try their hand at various creative activities, such as electronic arts and crafts, programming, and design. Each month has a different theme. ※ In case of rain, some parts of the workshop may be modified.
Event Details
Date & Time: Saturday, December 13, Sunday, December 14, 2025, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Duration: 120 min. (TBC) Venue: LIFORK HARAJUKU Instructor: Kimura Yusuke (director, performer / CCBT Technical Team) Target: 4th grade elementary school students and up Capacity: 10 per session Registration: Registration required (available on a first come, first served basis) Registration available until the day before while places remain Tickets: ¥500 (paid when registering) Application method: Apply through the form below (a new page will open)
Access
LIFORK HARAJUKU (WITH HARAJUKU 3F, 1-14-4 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo)
1 minutes’ walk from Harajuku Station (JR Yamanote Line), 1 minutes’ walk from Meiji-jingumae ＜Harajuku＞ Station (Tokyo Metro Chiyoda and Fukutoshin lines)
Players
木村悠介
Kimura Yusuke
Director, Performer
Kimura Yusuke’s interdisciplinary practice centers on theater, dance, and performance. After studying performing arts and film at Kyoto University of the Arts and media art at the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences in Gifu, he relocated to Germany in 2012. In 2013, he was the first Japanese student accepted on to the MA Solo/Dance/Authorship degree program at HZT Berlin, UdK Berlin. Kimura returned to Japan in 2016. With a focus on the structures and history of his themes, media, and forms of expression, his work is characterized by its underlying subversion of the boundary between the self and others. Since 2017, he has also worked as a contemporary art installer.
