Dolphins into the Future In Hirokazu-san's Office, Dried Tea Leaves Are Waiting to Speak (Soundscape)

Label / Edições CN
Category / Electronic
Code / ECN42

We are inside the office of Hirokazu-San, the director of Ujikoen. Ujikoen is a historical tea company based in Kizugawa near Kyoto. There’s four of us Kojima Hirokazu : director of the tea company Kazuki Tomita : a translator hired for our project Floris Vanhoof : multimedia artist Lieven Martens : sound recordist In this office Hirokazu-San tastes and slurps tea every day. Carefully he boils the water, selects the leaves, tastes the harvest, sip. Rounding up to about 300.000 sips - or more? - during his years studying for, and being a, teamaster. He blends with his tongue. Carefully combining different leaves from different soils. I had no idea they blended tea in this Geuze/Champagne manner. I walk outside the factory building. I walk around it. A faint smell of cat pee. The gravel makes sound under my sandals. I look up and see an airplane carefully drawing a straight line in the sky. A memory comes with every taste. It will be a blend. This story takes place in the Uji region where the highest standard tea leaves are grown. Because of the mist, the air, the blue mountains, the people, … And in this particular office, in this factory building, in this village. I think about and follow every sound. To what was and where it goes. And up there in the misty mountains, I saw the tea plant creep into the forrest as a snake, as a bear, as smoke.

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