SWITCH Vol.37 No.12 Feature Haruki Murakami Special Interview Japanese Magazine 

［Haruki Murakami, the author, lives with sound. ］This is a long interview (about 8,000 words) about "sound" and "audio," including the sound of vintage speakers played daily in his study, his audio history from his youth through the days of jazz cafes to the present, and the definition of "good sound" for Haruki Murakami. The interviewer is Hiroshige Onodera, former editor-in-chief of Japan's leading audio magazine "Stereo Sound" and an audio critic. There are many valuable stories that can only be read here, such as the episode when he was involved in setting up the audio system in Murakami's house. Also included is a column entitled "Haruki Murakami's Audio" from a critic's perspective. And the photos of the air in Haruki Murakami's study, captured on analog film, are by up-and-coming photographer Wahei Kimura.