So much of the art I love was created in Japan, and through my experience of this art I get the sense of a particularly Japanese spirit of creativity, which although quite ineffable to me, permeates and speaks to me through all the diversity of it's works. For so much of the art I love, in so many diverse forms to come from one country, I can only believe that this esoteric spirit is an emergent property of Japanese culture itself.
As such, my real research will be an ongoing reflection on how living in Tokyo, and experiencing it's culture directly, affects my own art, both in terms of process and outcome.
To achieve this I intend to  completely immerse myself in the act of living in Tokyo, both intellectually as an artist, but more importantly as a simple, creative human being. I want to discover life there for myself, and in discovering it, discover new parts of myself, find new emotional and psychological maps to follow.
In this respect I hope to make the simple acts of day to day existence as important as the deliberate act of creating music - getting a hair cut and shopping for groceries will be as significant as any intellectual interpretations of my new environment.
It is my belief that even though I do not yet fully understand the essential essence I seek, I sense it is there, and through my holistic act of engagement I can try to connect with the same complex and fundamental aspects of Japanese culture which have spawned it, and ultimately learn how and where my own creativity meets it, and what happens at that intersection.