Whether she is capturing the architecture of Osaka from far away, or through windows and from behind the mise en place of her own daily life, Bradley's photography becomes an extension of her focus on the city. Her images are haunting, awe inspiring, and intimate. Recorded with head-worn Core Sound binaural microphones through an ATI ML200 analog microphone preamp into a Zoom H2 flash recorder at 44.1 kHz/24 bit. Using a multitrack DAW to organize and arrange the recordings, this album was composed to give a sense of movement and contrasting spaces and points of audition across Osaka. When the punk movement was shaking the world, a group of underground musicians in Japan set up one of their first independent labels. Vanity Records, in operation for only about four years between 1978 and 1981, used emergent electronic equipment to pursue dark dystopian sounds that grated against the glossy sheen of contemporary Japanese culture. The NHK Symphony Orchestra in this 大阪 レコーディング recor...