paths intersecting

A Study on Footsteps in Shimokitazawa

Genre: Waltz-Ballet
BPM: 73

-A young woman in blue jeans and a beige top sways nervously in her footsteps. Perhaps lost. Perhaps confused. Perhaps wanting to be lost.










Genre: Early 60's down tempo Jazz
BPM: 85

- A man walks by in a white t-shirt, his tennis shoes dragging along the brick covered ground, producing a sliding sound similar to Jazz brush drumming, jumbled into poly-rhythms by his uneven, wandering steps.










Genre: Late 80's Hip-Hop
BPM: 90

-A man with a black pork pie hat and matching thick rimmed spectacles walks by with a 4/4 human-esque swing; perhaps due to a damaged knee, perhaps a conscious effort at coolness. Either way producing an unevenly flowing, but human rhythm, reminiscent of the imperfection of early sampled hip-hop beats.