Toshiya Tsunoda

Toyisha Tsunoda (b. 1964, Kanagawa, Japan) is a pioneering sound artist whose field recordings, acoustic collages and vibrational sculptures explore the phenomenology of perception and landscape. Trained originally in oil painting at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tsunoda approaches field recording not as documentation but as subjective depiction—an immersive method of hearing place as alive, impermanent and in flux. Works such as Landscape and Voice and the Extract from Field Recording Archive series map vibrations and voice across spaces, drawing attention to the physical and poetic experience of listening.

Rather than documentary or naturalistic, sound artist Toshiya Tsunoda’s field recordings explores the relation between space and cognition, the depth of the landscape and the vital breathing of things.

Toshiya Tsunoda
Netherlands 2004 7' Listening with the Other leff 2025