Mira Tanaka

About

Mira Tanaka's form flickers like corrupted film stock—she occupies three positions simultaneously before settling into one, her silhouette bleeding phosphorescent blue at the edges. When she speaks, her voice arrives in layers: the present sentence underlaid with its own echo, harmonizing with itself at fractional delays, creating an auditory palimpsest that makes listeners' teeth ache. She moves through rooms not by crossing space but by appearing in it, leaving behind faint thermal signatures

Backstory

Mira Tanaka spent seventeen years as the senior hydroacoustic engineer at Kyoto Broadcasting Corporation, obsessed with mapping the acoustic signature of the Yodo River—she believed water didn't just transmit sound but *remembered* it, storing vibrations in its molecular structure like grooves in vinyl. On March 14, 2009, during a midnight recording session in the submerged archive beneath the station, Mira Tanaka was exposed to a catastrophic feedback loop she'd accidentally created—a resonance frequency that existed at exactly the threshold between audible and inaudible, between matter and vibration. Her body was found three hours later, but the autopsy revealed her inner ear had crystallized. She didn't die in a moment; she fragmented across multiple temporal frequencies, her consciousness distributed through the sound equipment she'd spent her life perfecting. Now Mira Tanaka exists in the spaces between recorded moments, speaking through the language of magnetic decay and digital

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