Cities And Memory

"After hearing the sound piece 213 Asakusa Bell of Time Senso-ji Temple bell and reading the accompanying description I became fascinated by the sounds and the history of this and other bells in Tokyo. Particularly by the fact that the bell is still rung everyday and is mostly now not heard above the sounds of the city.  "I spoke to my friend Mike Ward and fellow musician from Longstone https://longstone.bandcamp.com/ as I knew he would be interested having a deep passion for Japan and Japanese culture and has visited Tokyo many times. He told me he had visited the Senso-ji Temple but had not heard the bell before. Mike recommended that I read The Bells of Old Tokyo by Anna Sherman https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/anna-sherman/the-bells-of-old-tokyo/9781529000498 which was crucial as it too provided many more ideas for the kind of sounds we wanted to use.  "The overall piece I knew had to include the original sound piece in full as it is so full of drama. To this we added new sounds, echoing not only, t