Invisible Sound

Makoto Terauchi

2023
6P(27.3×41.0㎝)/oil on canvas/2023

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The theme of this exhibition, "Dragon," reminded me of a topic that went viral few years ago that I saw on the Internet.
It was about a mysterious noise disturbance that occurred in a village in Guizhou Province, China.
For several days, the sound reverberated through the mountain village with a deep bass sound like the roar of a beast, and many people who learned of the news flocked to the village saying, "It's like a roar of a dragon.".
Several videos have been uploaded on the Internet showing people flocking to the site with a strange sound.

The cause of the sound has not been identified, and various speculations have been made (the theory that the sound leaked from an underground cave, the natural catastrophe, the harbinger theory, the world weekend theory, and so on).
It was so-called occult news, but I was strangely interested in the topic at the time and I often searched the Internet for more information.
After a while, experts investigated the identity of the sound, and found that "the cry of a type of quail echoed in the mountains".

However, some people said that it was a joke to calm the uproar, and the topic was buried without the truth being revealed.