"jingle" is a critical zine about the environment surrounding music. This special issue features New York City, containing interviews, essays, exhibition reviews, photo collections, and compilation albums.

The 108-page zine discusses the relationship between music and other cultures, such as architecture, design, and graffiti. It also incuses a collection of photographs of New York City streets, and a compilation album featuring the music scene in Brooklyn.

In addition to the special binding, which uses a different size paper for each content, the cover of the photo book is printed with a risograph, and the risograph is available in a total of five different colors.

Index

◉Interview
Oyama EnricoIsamu - Towards sonic imagination
Keisuke Toyoda - Information Technology for the City and Sound
Yuichiro Fujimoto - Listening to the Music of Everyday Life
Riki Hidaka - Continuously Facing Music
Yuri Suzuki - Designing the Relationship between Humans and Sound
Yumiko Sakuma - The Environment Surrounding Music that Changes with the Times

◉Review
Making Music Modern: Design for Ear and Eye
Can you hear me? music labels by visual artists

◉Essay
Kata Tanaka + Yoshiaki Miura - Under the Big Lights

◉Photograph
Yuki Aizawa　—　See/Hear the Scenery

◉Compilation Album
Low Mein / Wolf Diamond / Fax Machine America / Hypoluxo / Don Laine
Carolla Lovelace / Hunter Foldentree / TVOD / Wooter / Rory / Benedict

We can easily listen to any music from all over the world by simply connecting to the Internet, whenever and wherever we want. Though, how many words can we weave around the music? We need to become more conscious of the surrounding environments in order to understand the music that has developed hand in hand with various cultures and in accordance with the times. Our motivation is to understand the possibilities of music through alternative music critiques, in a way that has not usually been discussed beofre.