NOMOTO TRANSIT

President Harry S. Truman

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CHAPTER 00 / THE WET SEAT

One passenger is missing.

The seat is wet. It has not rained. Someone says the passenger was carrying an empty birdcage.

A dreamlike journey through the human condition: moral philosophy from Thales to Arendt and Camus, psychology, science, film, and AI as a new test of old human questions. There is no required route.

N LOCAL / THE HUMAN WEATHER

NOMOTO MEDIA / THE HUMAN CONDITION, AI & MORAL PHILOSOPHY

Where do you want to go?

Select a station.ORIGINAL HOMEPAGE →BROWSE ALL WORKS →

NOMOTO SOUND CARRIAGE

NOMOTO MUSIC YOUR MUSIC LOOP MUSIC THE CONDUCTOR / STATION ANNOUNCEMENTS CONDUCTOR

FIELD RECORDING LINE / FIRST ARRIVALReal transit doors now sound during travel. Longer stations, tunnels, crowds, and voices arrive as separate city-and-era layers.DOOR RECORDING / STEPHAN / COLOGNE / PUBLIC DOMAIN

ROUTE MUSIC READY

TRANSFER / DEEP ARCHIVE

INFINITE SHELVES

Choose a body of work—or follow the object that bothers you.

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