1: Analog or Digital?
both

2: What time did you wake up today?
8:15

3: Last thing you read?
JLG’s interview/book, japanese around 40 years old women/article

4: Whats your first memory?
memory that i could walked a bit along a sofa at my grandparents house. the blue carpet and slowmotioned faces of smiling happily adults(otona?)(my family) like monsters watching at me walking.

5: Tea Or Coffee?
both

6: Last thing you cooked?
fired eggs

7: If you’re reborn who or what would you like to be?
a heavenly body(天体？）

8: What inspires you?
everything

9: Last record you played?
a record of live concerts in power house from brisbane

10: Favorite piece of musical equipment?
mpc2000

11: Last movie you saw?
documentary of andrei talkovsky when he had to make a movie in italy

12: Who do you love?
kids

13: Do you have any pets?
no

14: Are you useful?
no

15: Biggest fear?
i have many universal(?common?) fears, but some people don’t understand that i’m really really
afraid of self reproductive? stuffs /模様（あのいっぱいの貝とか、新興住宅地とか、カエルの卵のあるまりとか）[patterns (those masses of shells/shellfish, developing cookie-cutter housing districts, masses of frog eggs)]

16: What do you value the most?
良い新しいものが生まれること／ところーイケてるフロンティア？
[good new things being born or happening, for example, cool frontiers ]

17: Famous last words?
last wordsって何？？
[what are last words?]

Tujiko Noriko lives and makes music in Paris, France. She has released multiple albums on labels such as (Editions) Mego, Nature Bliss, and Room40 and has directed two films; “Sand and Mini Hawaii” and “Sun” (neither of which are available for distribution yet). She is currently raising her daughter, working on a new record with Aoki Takamasa and planning her third feature film.

Note: My translations of Noriko’s Japanese responses are italicized within brackets. i.e. [text]