6.16.2010

Footsteps



My footsteps echo throughout the narrow passage, each step doubling and tripling as I make my way from one end to the other.

Recently I had a conversation with a veteran of the construction industry. He told me that for every skyscraper built a number of lives are lost and that only the deaths that occur outside the construction site's boundaries ever make the news. He continued that this building in particular was quite famous for its ghosts.

My footsteps echo throughout the narrow passage, but I wonder if they are really mine.

足音が狭い通路中に響く、
端から端まで、一歩一歩の足音が2倍、3倍になる。

最近、ある建設業界のベテランと話した。
彼によると、高層ビルが建てる度に、何人かの命が奪われ、
事件が建設現場の境界の外で起きる場合のみニュースになる。
そして、この建物は幽霊が出ることで特に有名と続けて語った。

足音がこの狭い通路中に響くけれど、
本当に自分の足音だろうか?

5.31.2010

The City Lullaby



He lays there, like a photograph. Clothed in rags and surrounded by filth, in an uncanny slumber of serenity, of peace. The city sings him a lullaby: delivery truck's roaring engines and screaming breaks, salarymen and there pointless dialogs, the rolling thunder of the passing trains above, the honking of taxis calling patrons, the whisper of bicycle tires passing on concrete...

I wonder what he dreams?

写真のように寝転がる。
ボロを着て、汚れに囲まれる中、穏やかで、平和ながらも、異常なまどろみ。
街が子守歌を歌ってくれる:
突然うなるトラックのエンジン、キィッーと響くブレーキ
サラリーマンの無意味な会話
鳴り響く雷のように上を通る電車
客を呼ぶタクシーのクラクション
コンクリートの上を走る自転車のタイヤのささやき...

どんな夢を見てるだろう?

4.03.2010

Shiva & Brahma


Brahma: I wonder what was there?
Shiva: I wonder what will be there next?

ブラーマ: なにがあったんだろう?
シバ: なにができるのかなぁ?

3.10.2010

Piano for Mr. Hamada (2 of 2)

Crossings

Music written, performed and recorded by Robert A. Newman
© 2009 Robert A. Newman ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

3.05.2010

Piano for Mr. Hamada (1 of 2)

1410 Dexter

Music written, performed and recorded by Robert A. Newman
© 2009 Robert A. Newman ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

11.29.2009

Communication



A toy cellphone played to death.
From death, what is born?

遊び倒されたおもちゃの携帯電話です。
「死」から何が生まれるのか?

10.16.2009

A Windy Day

Time








Shinjuku Island Tower Wednesday 13:00
Time echoes throughout the city streets.

新宿アイランドタワー 水曜日 13:00
「時」が街中に響く。

A Momentary Concert

9.04.2009

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