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Challenge the Audio Network

It's 2027. Born in 2007, the main character K has no girlfriend and is part of a cultural minority with few friends. In a paperless age with no books, magazines and newspapers, K collects the old media of the 20th century. His little dream is to "make a book" with his friend 21LO! But it goes against the law to make books in the age when the distribution or even printing is impossible and severely restricted without an official government emblem...


EPISODE 36

2027 - Challenge the Audio NetworkChallenge the Audio Network

Take a breath having a paper-tab tea in 21LO’s room. Finally getting myself organized. I’m not shocked by the punch. What shocked me was the blackout experience. I’m surprised by those thoughts which are built-in functions of my brain.

2 “Your eyes look terrible.”
K “Are they?”
2 “Can we really go inside the audio network with this little equipment? This size makes me nervous.”
2 “Way little. I heard you can record, broadcast and everything with this.”
K “Everything? Might lose it.”
2 “Well why don’t we start to speak something?”
K “Speak what?”
2 “Hey you. GEMPEG, of course. Come on.”
K “Sorry, sorry.”

I’m dizzy a bit, but we started to record.

Continuously we started recording.
We speak to the palm-sized equipment. Is there a countless audience on the other side of this little equipment? May be so. We don’t know it though. We should not think about it otherwise we cannot speak a word. So don’t worry, start to speak out. Advertising our book GEMPEG.


Text and images: Kurando Furuya, Hitoshi Odajima, Tomoki Kurokawa
Translation: Mariko Takei

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