Tokyo Noise (2002) is a documentary made by Swedish directors Kristian Petri, Jan Röed and Johan Söderberg. This documentary explores Tokyo through its noise and sound culture, getting different perspectives by interviewing characters that don’t necessarily revolve across the noise world, for example a psychologist or a photographer. What makes this documentary remarkable, apart from its pleasing visual aesthetic, is the wide palette of sounds used. Tokyo soundscape is successfully mixed with electronic music and intelligent sound design, giving the city a character and a narrative. At the same time the documentary explores and analyses the current social problems that torment the habitants of Tokyo, from the growth of automatization industrialization, to the intense anti-social culture.

The documentary is an eye candy to watch and it can be said the same thing about the sound. This documentary has become for me a reference of audiovisual composition, at the same time it introduced me to Japanese sound artist and I can comfortably say that I like the aesthetic of the noise music. I would like to try introducing some qualities of noise music into my compositions.