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For Yui Nishikawa, that silence is home.

Nishikawa, a 34-year-old Japanese-Caribbean sound artist, has spent the last decade archiving what she calls “the planet’s accidental music.” But where other artists seek clarity, Nishikawa chases degradation. i--- Caribbean -042816-146- -042816-551- Yui Nishikawa

“The dash is the most important part,” she tells me, her voice soft over a patchy VoIP connection from a catamaran off the coast of Dominica. “The numbers are coordinates. The dashes are the silence between them. Without the silence, you just have data. With it, you have a story.” For Yui Nishikawa, that silence is home

“Some questions are better as static,” she says. For Yui Nishikawa