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translates these sounds into onomatopoeias one by one. It is exactly the opposite of the process I had in the venue, trying to figure out what the onomatopoeia would be in real life. As I hear a sound, from within my body, a new onomatopoeia, a resonance that is a word unformed, wells up. It was something very surprising, which I had never experienced before. Since I had this vivid experience through“The hurly-burly chorus”, even now I sometimes translate the sounds of the street into onomatopoeias without thinking. As“yuaan yuyoon yuyayuyon”once changed my perception of the swaying movement,“The hurly-burly chorus”has changed how I hear sounds in the streets completely.
Ryota Yamada | Poet Born in 1982 . His collections of poems are published in“Giant Field”(Sicho-sha). His recent works include:“ATOMLOG”series (Gendaishi Techo Special Issue“Conversation in the Beginning”),“John Cage Quiz”(Eureka, October 2012 ),“My Town”(Bungakukai, June 2011 ). He is a member of the verbal art unit“ TOLTA” , whom have been working on a“TOLTABATON” (2011-2013), which is a project to create“books that fly when opened” . They published“ TOLTA5” in April 2013.