Sound of Kyoto

は、映像と音楽で京都を表現するオーディオビジュアル作品です。/
Creating the musical portrait of Kyoto. Film in production until mid-2021.

22/12/2023

DeSisti Lighting illuminates 'Sound of Kyoto'

01/12/2023

13/12/2021

06/10/2021

Award-winning composer Marios Joannou Elia on his latest short music film, Sound of Kyoto. The film is set to premiere later this year.

18/08/2021

"Following the success of his critically acclaimed short music film Sound of Vladivostok, Elia was asked to create something similar for a city that reigned as the capital of Japan for more than 1,000 years. And so, in 2018 began his latest endeavor: Sound of Kyoto." Tokyo Weekender

Award-winning composer Marios Joannou Elia on his latest short music film, Sound of Kyoto. The film is set to premiere later this year.

10/08/2021

The acoustic effect immediately after Typhoon Hagibis has passed. Hagibis has been an extremely violent and large tropical cyclone that caused widespread destruction across its path. Even though it has been an emergency warning not to leave homes, I could not resist recording the aura of this severe natural phenomenon which is characteristic for Japan.

04/08/2021

Kinkakuji (金閣寺, Golden Pavilion) is a Zen temple in northern Kyoto whose top two floors are completely covered in gold leaf. Formally known as Rokuonji, the temple was the retirement villa of the sh**un Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, and according to his will it became a Zen temple of the Rinzai sect after his death in 1408. Kinkakuji was the inspiration for the similarly named Ginkakuji (Silver Pavilion), built by Yoshimitsu's grandson, Ashikaga Yoshimasa, on the other side of the city a few decades later.

Kinkakuji is an impressive structure built overlooking a large pond, and is the only building left of Yoshimitsu's former retirement complex. It has burned down numerous times throughout its history including twice during the Onin War, a civil war that destroyed much of Kyoto; and once again more recently in 1950 when it was set on fire by a fanatic monk. The present structure was rebuilt in 1955.

31/07/2021

Filming session at Yasaka Street (八坂通り) - an iconic historical street located in the heart of Higashiyama district. This is an exemplary spot for the old, traditional Kyoto of winding streets and narrow wooden houses. Our protagonists, mother and son, wearing authentic kimono, and their zōri, the flat and thonged Japanese sandals (草履), sounding in a typical for Kyoto acoustic environment.